Tag Archives: everything matters

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 →

Posted in actualizing tendency, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, autonomy, consent, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, empowerment, ethics, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, internal locus of evaluation, Monica Cassani, non-conforming, objectification, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, shadow, transformation, trauma, violence | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, alternative mental health care, alternative psychiatric care, attending to the body, authoritarianism as violence, authority as violence, authority over others is violence, autonomy, breaking down, breaking through, can madness save us, care for psychosis, Chris Cole, coercion in medicine, coercive mental health treatment, coercive paradigms, coercive psychiatry, collective caring, coming off psychiatric drugs, community mental health, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug free recovery, emotional pain, everything matters, faith, finding a safe space, finding support, forced psychiatric treatment, forced treatment, having well being, healing journey, health and well-being, helping professions, holistic health, iatrogenic injury, improving well being, Jiddu Krishnamurti, learning to live well, loving the body, loving your body, low cost counselling exeter, medical adherence, medical compliance, medical model, medically induced injury, meditation, mental distress, mental health and eating, mental health system, mental health treatment, mental illness system, mental pain, mentally ill, Monica Cassani, needing a safe space, no measure of health, non compliance, non conformity, Open Dialogue, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paying attention, peer support, person centred counselling exeter, personal agency, personal sovereignty, presence, pro choice in psychiatry, professional retraumatisation, professional retraumatization, providing sanctuary, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric harm, psychiatric labels, recovering and thriving, resistance to treatment as sign of health, retaining agency, Robert Whitaker, self care, self empowering, sick culture, sick society, state of mental health care, support in growth, support in healing, supporting others, supporting vulnerable people, systemic oppression, trauma, trusting your own process, using practice, vulnerability, well adjusted, wellness, withdrawal syndrome, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Trauma, injury, illness and waking up – Monica Cassani

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Trauma, injury, illness and waking up Click on the title link above for this post by Monica, whose site holds a great richness of resources for anyone seeking healing or seeking alternatives to the psychiatric model perspectives. This post has many … Continue reading →

Posted in awakening, community, compassion, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, embodiment, emotions, family systems, flow, generational trauma, grief, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, physical being, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, Rachel Naomi Remen, self, therapeutic growth, transformation, trauma, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ancestral awareness, awakening, awakening consciousness, being with emotions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creating community, embodiment, everything matters, feeling emotions, generational trauma, importance of compassion, Krishnamurti, low cost counselling exeter, meditation, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, Rachel Naomi Remen, therapeutic growth, trauma and awakening, trauma and transformation, trauma work, traumatic experience, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

2016: The Reveal – Charlotte Du Cann

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://dark-mountain.net/blog/2016-the-reveal/ Click on the above link to visit http://www.dark-mountain.net for Charlotte’s article, another powerful Zeitgeist piece at the end of a big, shadow-filled year:- ‘This alchemical moment has nothing to do with social justice, or environmentalism or any of the … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, accountability, actualizing tendency, autonomy, awakening, beauty, blaming, Charlotte Du Cann, civil rights, communication, community, compassion, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, Dark Mountain Project, Disconnection, diversity, dying, ecological, ecological issues, embodiment, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, external locus, fear, flow, gratitude, grief, growth, healing, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loss, love, meaning, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, shadow, transformation, trauma, trust, values & principles, violence, vulnerability, Yann Arthus-Bertrand | Tagged 4 directions, 52 Flowers That Shook My World – A Radical Return to Earth, 7 directions, affordable counselling exeter, agency, albedo, alchemy, altering the dynamics of a system, alternative perspectives, ancestors, art as politics, becoming an elder, Bloody Marsh, Bob Dylan, breathing planet, British values, brutal Britain, chaos theory, Charlotte Du Cann, Christian Brett, class shadow, climate change, cognitive dissonance, coherence in a fragmenting time, collapsing world, collective shadow, collective shift of consciousness, community activists, community gardens, composting the past, connection with the land, connection with the natural world, consciousness, corporate global economy, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, creativity and chaos, creativity and politics, cultural change, cultural shadow, cycle of destruction, cycle of life, cycles of history, dark materia, Dark Mountain, Dark Mountain Project, David Moyse, death and rebirth, deep feeling, deep memory of water, deep time, deforestation, dismantling belief systems, dispossessed, dominant culture, Easton Bavents, echo chambers, embodiment, end of globalisation, end of things, environmental collapse, environmentalism, everything matters, existential crisis, existential meaning, external locus, fabric of life, factory farming, feeling coherence, feudal England, fixed systems, fnding coherence, fossil fuel dependence, four directions, fragmenting time, full spectrum dominance, Gaia, Gary Snyder, Gee Vaucher, George Orwell, give and take days, globalisation, grassroots activism, grief and gratitude, grief composting, Hal Niedzviecki, Halloween, hard yoga for the earth, heart coherence, heart medicine, heart perspective, Here be dragons, hidden rage, high tragic roles, Hopi prophecy, Human, human impact, humiliation, I am another yourself, industrialisation, intense engagemen, intensity, internal locus, intimacy, Introspective, Kali, keeping out the unwanted, kindness, living planet, lost connection, lost purpose, low cost counselling exeter, machine of history, mainstream world, meaning of time, medicine of darkness, medicine of the ancestors, medicine of winter, metaphysics, Midsummer Eve Bonfire, mindfulness, modern feudalism, mortality, mythology, mythos, new language, new narrative, new social contract, nigredo, Nikolai Astrup, non linear systems, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, patriarchy, person centred counselling exeter, personal transformation, phase space, position of the ancestors, precariat, presence, privilege, rabbit proof fence, radical art, rainbow serpent, referendum vote, regeneration, rejecting the unwanted, resisting darkness, resisting shadow, resisting the fall, restoration, Richard Mabey, Rings of Saturn, RoundUp, rubedo, Rust Belt, Samhain, Sebald, seeds breaking open, seven directions, shadow, shadow of your culture, shadow work, shape of uncertainty, social collapse, social exclusion, social justice, solarising forces, soul, soul purpose, Sound of Stones in the Glasshouse, spiritual crisis, Standing Rock, strange attractors, suburbanisation, suicide, sun medicine, the system, Tony Dias, transformation, transformation and chaos, transience, trauma, trust the process, trusting the process, Unfurling, unkindness, unkindness of centuries, unnecessariat, water medicine, we are the ones we are waiting for, winter solstice, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, zeitgeist, zombie apocalypse, zombie lifestyle | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: everything matters

The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay – Monica Cassani

Trauma, injury, illness and waking up – Monica Cassani

2016: The Reveal – Charlotte Du Cann

Archives

Meta