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‘The Death Mother’ Toko-pa

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Death Mother Click on the link for this interesting and profound book review from Toko-pa – containing several useful links – on the archetype and meanings of the Death Mother:- ‘If you were the child of a mother crippled by her own … Continue reading →

Posted in body psychotherapy, child development, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, dying, Eating, embodiment, emotions, fear, growth, healing, identity, loneliness, metaphor & dream, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, sleep, suicide, Toko-pa, trauma, vulnerability | Tagged abandoning ourselves, abandoning yourself, abandonment, aliveness, ambiguity, archetype, assertion, authentic experience, authentic feelings, authenticity, auto-immune diseases, awareness, beauty, being unseen, belittling of the feminine, belonging, Bud Harris, child development, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, collapse, confusion, consciousness, cultural collective, cultural shadow, cultural wound, cultural wounding, Daniela Sieff, death, Death Mother, denigration, depression, devaluation, devaluation of feminine, disapproval, disconnection, disconnection from body, disembodied, disembodiment, dreaming, dreams, dreams and metaphor, dreamwork, earth mother, eating disorders, emotional heritage, emotional paralysis, emotional trauma, engaging with our dreams, expression, fear and overwhelm, fear of abandonment, fear of masculine, fear of men, feminine fear, feminine mistrust, feminine values, feminine wound, finding your voice, grief, grief process, grieving process, growth, healing trauma, inertia, inner valuation, internalised belief, Into the Heart of the Feminine, invalidation, Jungian analysis, longing for death, longing for oblivion, low self esteem, Marion Woodman, Massimilla Harris, Medusa myth, motherhood, mothering, myth, myth and symbol, needing support, order from chaos, out of awareness, overwhelm, overwhelming, paradox, paralysing energy, paralysis, personal shadow, physical expressions of loss of inner valuation, psyche, rejection, repulsion, sacred feminine, Self, self care, self concept, self harm, self neglect, self-abdication, self-structure, shadow, something is wrong with me, suicide, symbolic life, symbolism, Toko-pa, transformation, triggers, trusting yourself, Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma, unwanted aspects of self, unworthiness, women, wounded psyche, yin | Leave a comment

Carl Rogers on Loneliness

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“There are many ways of looking at loneliness, but I wish to focus on two elements of the sense of aloneness which we so often see in our clients and in others. The first is the estrangement of man from … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, Carl Rogers, communication, conditions of worth, conflict, Disconnection, empathy, external locus, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, person centred theory, relationship, self concept | Tagged acceptance, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, aloneness, authentic experience, awareness, Carl Rogers, Carl Rogers Reader, conditions of worth, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, denied aspects of self, disconnection, divided self, facade, hidden self, hiding, Howard Kirschenbaum, Johari, lack of relationship, loneliness, low cost counselling exeter, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, pretending, real self, realness, self concept, self perception, self-structure, shadow, Valerie Land Henderson, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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‘The Death Mother’ Toko-pa

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