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David Whyte on Giving

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

A seasonal meditation from David… Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

Posted in communication, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, David Whyte, dependence, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, friendship, gratitude, growth, identity, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, meditation, mindfulness, perception, photographs & pictures, presence, relationship, risk, self esteem, trust, vulnerability | Tagged acknowledgement, acknowledging others, act of courage, affordable counselling exeter, aliveness, altruism, art of giving, being seen, belonging, bonding, boundaries, communal well being, community, connectedness, connection, Consolations, contemplation, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, David Whyte, dependence, empathy, empowerment, existential meaning, frames of reference, generosity, genius of gift giving, gifting, gifts, giving in relationship, gratitude, heartbreak, human needs, imagination, inspiration, interconnection, interdependence, learning to give, low cost counselling exeter, maturation process, meditation, mindfulness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, receiving, relationship, relationship to others, relationship to self, relationship to time, self esteem, self worth, self-discovery, selflessness, silent contemplation, Solace Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, spontaneity, test of character, trust, understanding another, validation, valuing others, well-being, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Boy in the Closet — How I Lost my Best Friend to a Label by Margaret Altman

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/08/the-boy-in-the-closet-how-i-lost-my-best-friend-to-a-label/ ‘Diagnoses such as schizophrenia mask all of the strengths, feelings and talents that individuals possess, The labels can make people’s behavior appear aggressive, when in fact they are terrified. On the other hand, people in extreme states respond as all humans do to an approach … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, anger, anti-psychotics, blaming, childhood abuse, civil rights, communication, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, congruence, consent, core conditions, criminal justice model, cultural questions, Disconnection, DSM, emotions, empathy, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, family systems, fear, friendship, growing up, healing, hearing voices, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, loneliness, loss, love, Mad in America, Margaret Altman, meaning, non-conforming, objectification, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, relationship, research evidence, sadness & pain, scapegoating, schizophrenia, self concept, shadow, shame, shaming, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, trust, values & principles, violence, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged abuse, adverse childhood events, adverse outcomes in schizophrenia, affordable counselling exeter, aggression, aggressive behaviour, alienation, anger, anti-psychotic drugs, attachment, belonging, Big Pharma, bonding, boy in the closet, childhood abuse, childhood neglect, childhood schizophrenia, childhood trauma, civil rights, clinical social work, coercive psychiatric treatment, communication, compassion, compliance, conformity, confrontation, connectedness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Creedmore, criminal justice system, criminalizing human distress, criminalizing human suffering, cultural issues, diagnosis and disorder model, disappointment, disconnection, discrimination, disgrace, disgust, embarrassment, emotional abuse, emotional distress, emotional isolation, fear, fear and rage, forced psychiatric treatment, friendship, harm to self or others, healing, Human Rights, human suffering, humiliation, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, isolation, life experiences, love, low cost counselling exeter, Mad in America, Margaret Altman, medicalisation of distress, medicalising distress, medicalization of distress, medicalizing distress, medicating children, Mellaril, mental health, mental health labels, mentally ill, narratives in psychology, narratives in psychotherapy, Navane, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paranoia, paranoid schizophrenia, parental expectation, pediatric psychiatry, pediatric schizophrenia, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personality change, physical abuse, play therapy, psychiatric hospitalization, psychiatric labels, psychiatric model, Psychiatry, psychological isolation, rage, relationship, safety, safety in therapy, schizophrenia, self defence, self protection, shame, shaming, social isolation, stigmatization, terror, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, Thorazine, toxic shame, trauma, traumatic experiences, trust in relationship, trust in therapy, Voiceless in America, vulnerability, withdrawal, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Johann Hari on Addiction

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html Click on the link for this excellent article. We have seen this in a number of places over the past few days (thank you, Brent Potter and Monica Cassani), and it deserves a wide audience. The writer’s sense at … Continue reading →

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David Whyte on Giving

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