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Everything Doesn’t Happen For A Reason – Tim Lawrence

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.timjlawrence.com/blog/2015/10/19/everything-doesnt-happen-for-a-reason#st_refDomain=www.facebook.com&st_refQuery=/ Immensely useful piece on the importance of grieving, and the unhelpful violence of platitudes and imposed ‘positivity’. As Tim says, we have a deeply harmful cultural inability to speak the language of grief or offer what is most needed – loving … Continue reading →

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Madness and Beauty in the Heart of Darkness – Drake Spaeth

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/05-27-15 Click on the link for (sadly) the last of Drake Spaeth’s series of posts for Saybrook, this time with some thoughts arising on the recent death of John Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose life was the subject of Sylvia … Continue reading →

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I Will Always Find You: The Homing of Human Connection – Drake Spaeth

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/02-26-15 Profound post from Drake on the wonderful Saybrook University site, about intuitive, embodied connection in relationship with ourselves/others, and within the web of life/our experiencing – and the support this offers us in finding our way:- ‘All of us … Continue reading →

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Living beyond limits: Amy Purdy at TEDxOrangeCoast

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“If my life were a book, and I were the author, how would I want the story to go?” Amy as phoenix, rising from the ashes of her life to realize herself. “I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken”. Found … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, creativity, empowerment, healing, human condition, physical being, sadness & pain, TED, therapeutic growth, transformation, trauma | Tagged adversity, Amy Purdy, boundaries, challenge, creativity, healing, imagination, limits, physical being, TED, TEDx, TEDxOrangeCoast, therapeutic growth | Leave a comment

Mary Oliver: From ‘The Uses of Sorrow’

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver: From ‘The Uses of Sorrow’ Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in actualizing tendency, gratitude, grief, human condition, Mary Oliver, sadness & pain, shadow, spirituality | Tagged actualising, actualizing, adversity, darkness, gratitude, grief, growth, loss, Mary Oliver, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, shadow, sorrow, spiritual growth, The Uses of Sorrow | Leave a comment

Howard Thurman: The Growing Edge

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Howard Thurman: The Growing Edge Click on the title for an interesting, useful quotation from Howard Thurman – apt for the time of year too, ‘the upward reach of life’. Thank you to Monica Cassani for the post. Put us … Continue reading →

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Toko-pa: On Being Cooked

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Toko-pa: On Being Cooked Click on the title for this helpful, profound post from Toko-pa on the pain and slow process elements of an ordeal by fire, and how we hold/fail to hold that culturally! Here’s a link to a … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, human condition, sadness & pain, therapeutic growth, Toko-pa, transformation | Tagged actualising, actualizing, adversity, dreamspeak, ordeal by fire, Palace Gate Counselling Service, per ardua ad astra, phoenix, therapeutic growth, Toko-pa | 1 Comment