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Dreamspeak: Tiny Acorn; Mighty Oak – Toko-pa

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2007/08/17/dreamspeak-tiny-acorn-mighty-oak/ Click on the link above to visit Toko-pa’s site for this beautiful and important piece on the personal and collective significance of dreaming, the ‘daimon’ and creativity in its widest sense:- ‘The daimon is in your goosebumps and sudden … Continue reading →

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Criticism: Are you willing to take the hit? Toko-pa

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2017/08/21/criticism-are-you-willing-to-take-the-hit/ Click on the above link to visit Toko-pa’s site for this helpful reflective piece, on our ability to receive criticism, and distinguish between what has the potential to teach us and what is harmful. ‘…there are two major consequences … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, awakening, boundaries, congruence, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, empowerment, external locus, fear, gratitude, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, loss, meaning, perception, relationship, resilience, self, self concept, self esteem, shame, shaming, Toko-pa, values & principles, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ambiguity, art, articulating yourself, belonging, cheap criticism, constructive criticism, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creative cycle, creativity, creativity and criticism, destructive criticism, external locus, feeling criticised, feeling criticized, feeling shame, finding your voice, giving your gifts, inspiration, internal locus, low cost counselling exeter, meaningful criticism, medicine gifts, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal medicine, praise and gratitude, receiving criticism, relationship, resilience, shaming, soul path, soul purpose, the creative, Toko-pa, Tokopa, trusting your intention, uncovering your gifts, uncovering yourself, unique medicine, using criticism, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Reclaiming Sweet Freedom – 23 things that we need not explain justify or defend – Isabel Abbott

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/09/reclaiming-sweet-freedom-23-things-that-we-need-not-explain-justify-or-defend/ Just gorgeous. This is written from the woman’s perspective, and the writer wants to expand it to include all of us (with any tweaks required to find the right fit for you). It’s wonderful, profound, poetic and important. Thanks, … Continue reading →

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The Brothers Grimm in Three Transcendent Dimensions: Shaun Tan’s Breathtaking Sculptural Illustrations for the Beloved Tales – Maria Popova

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood) http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/25/shaun-tan-philip-pullman-brothers-grimm/ An article from Maria on her consistently excellent Brainpickings site, concerning some mesmerizing three dimensional illustrations by Shaun Tan for Philip Pullman’s retelling of Grimms’ fairy tales (the German version – sadly, Philip’s … Continue reading →

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John Bramblitt’s paintings, from the Daily Share

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Beautiful, heart-swelling story….and the paintings are glorious….Inner vision, expressed through touch – tenderness, joy, aliveness, connection, love, energy, the natural and human worlds. Just remarkable. Thank you to Shawn Rubin on Facebook for drawing our attention to this. Palace … Continue reading →

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Rumi on Love and Art

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” Rumi Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Toko-pa – The Sound of Duende

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2015/01/08/the-sound-of-duende/ Click on the link for another beautiful post by Toko-pa, on Duende. Duende is hard to translate – about passion, spirituality, fire, rawness, realness, and surrender as the gate to deep expression and to wholeness….Love that reaches well past … Continue reading →

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Dazzling Images of the Brain Created by Neuroscientist-Artist

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.livescience.com/49060-brain-artwork-gallery.html Click on the link for this fascinating piece by Tanya Lewis on www.livescience.com, about Greg Dunn’s art – images of (mostly) the human brain, of extraordinary beauty. They remind us of forests….and the sacred nature and infinite value of all … Continue reading →

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Hannah Linden – Slipstream and Rumplestiltskin

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://nutshellsandnuggets.tumblr.com/post/95083578267/hannah-linden-two-poems Click on the link for a couple of wonderful poems from Hannah, a remarkable local poet on an ascending arc…. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in consciousness, creativity, Hannah Linden, human condition, poetry | Tagged art, counselling exeter, creativity, Hannah Linden, Nutshells and Nuggets, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, poem, poetry, Rumplestiltskin, Slipstream | Leave a comment

Rise & Root: Rima Staines

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Rima Staines is an artist local to us. Her work is beautiful and mesmerizing, with a metaphorical, dream/fairy story, de profundis/depths-of-consciousness quality that reminds us of Jung. Her work weaves through symbol, archetypes, our ancestral roots and the rhythms of … Continue reading →

Posted in consciousness, creativity, empowerment, human condition, metaphor & dream, natural world, paradigm shift, photographs & pictures, political | Tagged art, creativity, de profundis, dream, metaphor, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, poetic reality, Rima Staines, Rise & Root, The Hermitage, unconscious | Leave a comment

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