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Matt Licata on Ego

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Ego’ for many of us becomes a term of abuse for self/other and source of shame. Here’s a radically different and far more accurate/useful take on this…. Thanks, Matt. Here’s the text for those who have difficulty seeing Facebook links:- … Continue reading →

Posted in blaming, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, encounter, human condition, identity, kindness & compassion, love, Matt Licata, meaning, meditation, organismic experiencing, perception, presence, sadness & pain, self, self concept, shame, shaming, spirituality, vulnerability | Tagged 'eating disorder', abandoning experience, addictive behavior, addictive behaviour, addictive eating, affordable counselling exeter, anxious avoidant attachment, aroused nervous system, attachment, attachment figures, attuning to experience, avoiding feeling, avoiding pain, avoiding suffering, blaming, claustrophobia, coming home to yourself, compassionate response, compensatory behavior, compensatory behaviour, complaining, compulsive eating, conceptual spirituality, conscious awareness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, critical thoughts, cycle of abandonment, denying experience, denying feelings, denying pain, denying reality, disembodied, disembodiment, disordered eating, dissociation, doorway into wholeness, ego, ego as process, embodied response, embodied vulnerability, emotional suffering, empathy, escaping vulnerability, existential meaning, experience distant, experiencing ego, experiential, experiential learning, feeling unsafe, Great Mystery, heartbreak, heavy heart, humanness, invitation into presence, kind curiosity, kindness to self, limbic fight flight, longing, low cost counselling exeter, managing anxiety, Matt Licata, meaning of ego, meditative enquiry, moving away from pain, othering, overwhelming anxiety, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, panic, person centred counselling exeter, personal process, presence, process, projective identification, rage, restlessness, returning home, sadness, self abandonment, self aggression, self blaming, self care, self compassion, self empathy, self enquiry, self love, self nurture, self shaming, shame, shaming, spirituality, splitting, vulnerability, warmth, what is ego, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yogic response | 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

If They Stayed: A Letter to You – Kristin Ryan

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/if-they-stayed-a-letter-to-you-by-kristin-ryan/ Powerful piece by Kristin. With many thanks to her, and also thanks to ‘I am not a silent poet’ and Reuben Woolley. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

Posted in 'evil', abuse, acceptance, accountability, anger, childhood abuse, Eating, emotions, fear, forgiveness, growing up, healing, identity, parenting, poetry, power and powerlessness, relationship, resilience, sadness & pain, self, shadow, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability | Tagged 'eating disorder', abuse, adverse childhood event, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcohol and violence, anger, childhood abuse, consequences, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, emotional consequences, familial violence, forgiveness, healing, identity, Kristin Ryan, low cost counselling exeter, not a silent poet, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal experience of trauma, refusing forgiveness, relationship, Reuben Woolley, trauma, trust, trust in relationship, violence, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 2 Comments

Brian Thorne on what therapy is…

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Counselling and therapy are about relationship, about depth, about extraordinary intimacy. But to what end? So that a person who is suffering can find hope, alleviation of their pain, a sense of meaning and of value, a way forward from … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, Brian Thorne, core conditions, Disconnection, Eating, emotions, empathy, empowerment, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, love, meaning, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, relationship, spirituality, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, working with clients | Tagged 'eating disorder', A Collision of Worlds, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, anxiety, belonging, Brian Thorne, connectedness, connection, core conditions, counselling and problem solving, Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creating intimacy, depression, healing, interconnection, intimacy, intimacy in therapy, loneliness, love, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centered therapy, person centred counselling exeter, person-centred therapy, personhood, phobias, psychotherapy, spirituality, stress management, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 2 Comments

The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Another wonderful talk from Gabor Maté, this time coming in at a little under 19 minutes. We think he’s bang on, both in terms of what he says about addiction and in terms of the wider implications of this for … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, child development, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, emotions, external locus, fear, Gabor Mate, generational trauma, grief, growing up, healing, human condition, medical model, parenting, perception, political, power, power and powerlessness, psychiatric drugs, risk, self concept, sexual violence, suicide, TED, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability | Tagged 'eating disorder', abuse of power, addiction, addiction to power, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcoholism, anorexia, belief, brain chemistry, bulimia, childhood development, childhood distress, childhood trauma, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, compulsive shopping, compulsive spending, coping strategies, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug dependency, drug use, ecology, Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, loss, low cost counselling exeter, medicating pain, misuse of power, nature or nurture, neuroscience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parental disfunction, parental distress, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, political power, politics, porn addiction, power addiction, power of addiction, regulating emotion, sadness, self harming, self medicating, self regulation, self soothing, sex addiction, stillness, TED, TEDx, The Possible Human, trauma, Who are we when we are not addicted, Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Gabor Maté ‘Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted: The Possible Human’

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

As promised a couple of days ago, here is an whole hour of the wonderful Gabor Maté, sharing his thoughts on this theme. The writer watched this last night, and found it spell-binding. He’s original, profound and funny – and … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, acceptance, actualizing tendency, anti-depressants, child development, childhood abuse, cognitive, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, empowerment, family systems, fear, flow, Gabor Mate, healing, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Joseph Campbell, love, medical model, meditation, mindfulness, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, self, self concept, spirituality, sustainability, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, trust, vulnerability, wonder, working with clients | Tagged 'eating disorder', addiction, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcoholism, anorexia, Ayahuasca, belief, brain chemistry, bulimia, childhood development, childhood distress, childhood trauma, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, compulsive shopping, compulsive spending, coping strategies, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug dependency, drug use, enlightenment, faith, Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, loss, low cost counselling exeter, medicating pain, nature or nurture, neuroscience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parental disfunction, parental distress, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, porn addiction, regulating emotion, sadness, self harming, self medicating, self regulation, self soothing, sex addiction, spirituality, stillness, The Possible Human, trauma, Who are we when we are not addicted, Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

The Roots of Addiction – Gabor Maté

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Powerful, moving film with Gabor Maté talking about the origins and nature of compulsive behaviours and substance use. We are going to post some longer films of Gabor Maté’s work – this is another taster, at just over 3 minutes. … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, child development, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, Disconnection, emotions, external locus, family systems, fear, Gabor Mate, generational trauma, genetics, grief, growing up, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, loss, sadness & pain, trauma, violence | Tagged 'eating disorder', addiction, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcoholism, anorexia, brain chemistry, bulimia, childhood development, childhood distress, childhood trauma, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, compulsive shopping, compulsive spending, coping strategies, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug dependency, drug use, Gabor Mate, loss, low cost counselling exeter, medicating pain, nature or nurture, neuroscience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parental disfunction, parental distress, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, porn addiction, regulating emotion, sadness, self harming, self medicating, self regulation, self soothing, sex addiction, trauma, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Lessons from the Mental Hospital: Glennon Doyle Melton at TED

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Powerful account from Glennon of her personal journey – through conditions of worth and pretence into self-acceptance; through using alcohol, drugs and eating to disconnect from difficult experience/emotion, into organismic experiencing and connection with her feeling self/others. Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, clients' perspective, conditions of worth, Disconnection, Eating, interconnection & belonging, sadness & pain, self concept, shame, TED, therapeutic growth | Tagged 'eating disorder', abusive eating, actualising, actualizing, addiction, alcohol abuse, anger, anxiety, binging, Brené Brown, bulimia, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, destructive behaviour, disconnection, fear, Glennon Doyle Melton, organismic experience, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person-centred, pretending, purging, self concept, self harm, separation, TED, truth | Leave a comment

Nicole Homer performing one of her amazing poems

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

(We are reposting this as a new post – because it’s the only way we can find to correct the path-name! See Back Story below. You can see the old post and the comments under yesterday’s date, if for any … Continue reading →

Posted in Eating | Tagged 'eating disorder', anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating, Eating, emotional eating, food, lauren zuniga, nicole homer, person-centred, poem, poetry, restricting, self concept, self starvation, self worth | Leave a comment

Nicole Homer performing one of her amazing poems

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

We re-posted this on 6 February 2014, in order to correct the pathname – this was the only way we could find to do it. So this is effectively a duplicate post – and we are leaving it in place … Continue reading →

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