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The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay – Monica Cassani

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay Click on the above link to visit Monica’s site http://www.beyondmeds.com for this piece she published last week on ‘World Mental Health Day’. Her perspective and ours at this service have lots in common. Both … Continue reading →

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Breaking News: The Cause of Schizophrenia Finally Discovered? Noel Hunter

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://psychintegrity.org/breaking-news-the-cause-of-schizophrenia-finally-discovered/ Follow the above link for Noel’s piece. It’s a long, well-written and well researched article, essential reading for anyone in our line of work. The writer too has watched with some dismay, the viral description of the Sekar et al. … Continue reading →

Albert Camus on winter and summer

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, awakening, consciousness, healing, human condition, immanence, internal locus of evaluation, perception, reality, sadness & pain, self, spirituality, therapeutic growth, trauma, trust | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Albert Camus, awakening, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, emotional pain, grief, healing, internal locus, loss, low cost counselling exeter, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personal growth, sadness, trauma, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Ryan Woodward – Thought of you

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Gorgeous, deep, resonant short animation on longing, love and relationship. With thanks to Ryan Woodward, Missao Canada and Felipe Franca, and to Jürgen Teutsch and Lived Experience: the Reference of Life on Facebook for introducing us to Ryan. Jürgen had posted … Continue reading →

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Michael Eigen on learning to be with our scream

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Just because one is a baby and stops screaming, it doesn’t mean that the scream goes away inside. There is a scream that goes on all life long no matter who we are or what we do. Some of us … Continue reading →

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