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‘Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink’ Kristi Coulter

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink Click on the above link to visit Quartz Media’s site, for Kristi’s great piece about women, alcohol and our culture. This is from a U.S. perspective … Continue reading →

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Guante ‘Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘Man up”

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link above for Guante’s performance of his work on Button Poetry’s Facebook page. Aho. ‘Man up’ belongs in the ‘just don’t say it’ category…. Thanks, Guante, and also to Button Poetry and Angie Buchanan for posting this on Facebook … Continue reading →

Posted in communication, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, diversity, emotions, empathy, empowerment, ethics, feminine, Gender & culture, growing up, healing, identity, kindness & compassion, loneliness, love, masculine, non-conforming, objectification, paradigm shift, parenting, perception, political, power and powerlessness, relationship, self, self concept, self esteem, sexual being, sexual orientation, sexual violence, shadow, shame, shaming, vulnerability | Tagged activism, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, antisocial behaviour, approval, authority, autonomy, belittling, belonging, binary, blame, body image, bullying, Button Poetry, challenge, child development, claiming personal power, coercive conformity, coercive culture, community, compassion, competition, conditions of worth for boys, conditions of worth for men, conforming, conformity, confrontation, connectedness, conscious living, consciousness, contempt, controlling behaviour, controlling culture, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cultural difference, cultural distortion, cultural diversity, culture of coercion, culture of control, culture of shame, cycles of shame, defensive, demonising maleness, demonising masculinity, demonizing maleness, demonizing masculinity, desensitization, destructive behaviour, developmental process, developmental trauma, disapproval, disconnection, discrimination, discrimination against men, displaced expression, distorted developmental process, distortions of masculine power, diversity, division, domination, educating boys, education, emotional awareness, emotional connection, emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence in men, emotions, empathy, empathy in boys, empathy in men, empowerment, essence of the masculine, exclusion, external authority, external locus, fear, gender, gender and culture, gender and emotion, gender bias, gender discrimination, gender prejudice, Guante, humiliation, individuated man, individuation, inner truth, inner voice, internal dialogue, internalised values, internalized values, introjections, judgement, kindness, Kyle Tran Myhre, loneliness, loss, low cost counselling exeter, man up, masculine, masculine energies, masculine intuition, masculine norms, masculine nurture, masculinity, men and emotion, misuse of power, non-conforming, nurture in men, objectification, oppression, oppressor, ostracism, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, parenting, pathologising maleness, pathologising masculinity, pathologizing maleness, pathologizing masculinity, patriarchal behaviour, patriarchal culture, patriarchy, permission, person centred counselling exeter, personal discovery, personal journey, personal power, personal work, personhood, poetry as activism, political, projection, projective identification, projective reality, public shaming, punishment, punishment for not conforming, reclaiming the masculine, relationship, repression, ridicule, sacred feminine, sacred masculine, self concept, self distortion, self sufficiency, self suppression, self-structure, sensitivity, sensitivity as strength, separation, sexual diversity, sexual shaming, sexualisation of the masculine, sexualization of the masculine, shadow, shame, shaming, shaming as bloodsport, shaming men, shaming of maleness, social isolation, social pressure, stigma, stigmatising, stigmatizing, stoicism, subjective experience, suppression, unconscious behaviour, vulnerability, vulnerability as strength, wounded feminine, wounded masculine, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Upworthy – Challenging body-shaming

Posted on September 16, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Shaming seems to have become a bloodsport in our culture. It arises from damage and perpetuates damage. There is never any justification for it, and it seems to us deeply important to challenge it – as many of us … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, anger, blaming, bullying, cultural questions, empowerment, objectification, power and powerlessness, resilience, self esteem | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, body image, body shamers, body shaming, bullying, challenging body shaming, challenging bullying, challenging fat shaming, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, fat shamers, fat shaming, low cost counselling exeter, objectification, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, resilience, self assertion, self esteem, shame and blame, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Anne Lamott on The New Year Diet

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Characteristic humour and depth from Anne, on a seasonally relevant theme…. This touches on personal experience for me. I have experienced similar battles to Anne’s. In my past life, I regularly embarked on diets. I have also found more of value in deeper connection … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, Anne Lamott, awakening, bodywork, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, cultural questions, Dance, dependence, Disconnection, Eating, embodiment, emotions, healing, humour, identity, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, meditation, mindfulness, movement meditation, objectification, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, physical being, presence, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, shame, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, vulnerability | Tagged 'eating disorder', addictive behaviour, addictive eating, affordable counselling exeter, Anne Lamott, awakening, awareness, body dysmorphia, body image, building self esteem, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, conscious dance, conscious eating, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dieting, displaced behaviour, displaced expression, displacement, embodied being, embodiment, emotional eating, food as love, food as substitute for love, injuries to sense of self, lack of love, low cost counselling exeter, movement meditation, negative body image, new year diet, nourishment, nurture, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, self abuse, self concept, self esteem, self hatred, self love, self nourishing, self nurture, self punishment, self-loathing, self-structure, sense of self, sugar addiction, sugar craving, therapeutic relationship, therapy, transformation, trauma, trauma response, veganism, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

How America’s Culture of Shame is a Killer for Boys – Mark Greene

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/megasahd-why-americas-culture-of-shame-is-killing-us/ This article by Mark is wonderful, and the writer was crying before the end…Although the title gives a masculine focus, the points made are valid for us all, however we self describe/make sense of gender. This is the second … Continue reading →

Posted in bullying, conditions of worth, cultural questions, emotions, empathy, fear, growing up, identity, kindness & compassion, Mark Greene, Monica Lewinsky, paradigm shift, parenting, political, power and powerlessness, relationship, self, self concept, self esteem, shame, TED, trauma, vulnerability | Tagged addictive behaviour, affordable counselling exeter, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, alienation, antisocial behaviour, approval, authority, binary, body image, bullying, child development, Child Trends Data Bank, childhood trauma, coercive conformity, compassion, conformity, conscious parenting, contempt, corporal punishment, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cruelty, cultural difference, cultural diversity, culture of shame, cycles of shame, defensive, delinquency, depression, despair, disapproval, diversity, divorce, drug abuse, external locus, fear, good enough, grief, humiliation, internal dialogue, internalised values, internalized values, introjections, kindness, listening, loss, low cost counselling exeter, Mark Greene, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parenting, permission, person centred counselling exeter, personhood, political, problem behaviours in adolescence, psychological problems, public shaming, punishment, relationship, religious difference, Saliha Bava, self condemnation, self preservation, self-destructive behaviour, self-fulfilling prophesy, self-loathing, selfish, sexual diversity, sexual shaming, shame, shaming as bloodsport, spanking, spanking as shaming, www.goodmenproject.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Rewilding the Yoga Body – Danielle Prohom Olson

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://bodydivineyoga.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/rewilding-the-yoga-body/ Click on the link for this interesting and wide-ranging post by Danielle beginning with modern cultural ideas of feminine beauty in the context of the ‘yoga body’, and ranging through other cultures, times and spiritual traditions in search of … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, beauty, consciousness, cultural questions, Dance, Disconnection, empowerment, external locus, feminine, Gender & culture, healing, human condition, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, meditation, mindfulness, movement meditation, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, physical being, rewilding, self, spirituality, therapeutic growth, transformation, yoga | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, body construct, body image, body positivity, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, corporate culture, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural norms of beauty, dakini, Danielle Prohom Olson, divine feminine, embodied, embodiment, female psyche, feminine archetypes, gender, Jennifer Matsui, Kali, kundalini, Lilith, low cost counselling exeter, Maenads, mantra, Miranda Shaw, mudra, natural rhythms, natural world, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Passionate Enlightenment, patriarchy, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, physicality, rewilding, sacred feminine, shamanism, siddhi, spirituality, Tantra Yoga, Vajrayogini, Vicki Noble, Vidyaharini, vira, wild woman, Women in Tantric Buddhism, Women who run with wolves, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yoga, yoga body, yogini | Leave a comment

Micaela Blei – New York City Moth StorySLAM – ‘Altered’

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Micaela’s winning story. Beautiful, on many levels….. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in beauty, conditions of worth, creativity, cultural questions, empowerment, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, love, objectification, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, relationship, sadness & pain, self concept, self esteem, sexual being, shame, therapeutic growth, transformation, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Altered, beauty, body image, conditions of worth, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural norms, cultural norms of beauty, empowerment, external locus, ideals of beauty, internal locus, love, low cost counselling exeter, Micaela Blei, New York City Moth StorySLAM, objectification, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, physicality, plastic surgery, power, powerlessness, sadness, self concept, self esteem, self image, sexual being, sexual relationship, shame, transformation, unkindness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Ione Rucquoi: Sanctae – A Portrait of Secular Saints, by Milica Lewis

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Ione Rucquoi: Sanctae – A Portrait of Secular Saints by Milica Lewis Click on the title to follow the link for a post about this exhibition at the Royal West Academy of England in Bristol. With thanks to Milica Lewis, … Continue reading →

Posted in cultural taboos, Gender & culture, physical being | Tagged A Portrait of Secular Saints, body image, cultural taboo, divine feminine, feminine, gender, Ione Rucquoi, Lion Art Projects, Milica Lewis, nakedness, nudity, physical being, Royal West Academy of England, woman | Leave a comment

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