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Liz Gilbert on creativity & the struggle to find self

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

We found this simultaneously distressing and hopeful. Distressing, in terms of the punitive ‘criminal justice’ systems both here and in the U.S., which further disempower, traumatize and dehumanize people who already have a damaging bed rock of those life experiences … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Gilbert on Ruin, the ‘bleak shroud of despair’ & actualizing

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Elizabeth Gilbert on Ruin, the ‘bleak shroud of despair’ & actualizing Really interesting piece from Elizabeth Gilbert, drawing on her own experiences, about the potential for (painful) transformation through loss and destruction. You can read the whole piece on her … Continue reading →

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Liz Gilbert on creativity & the struggle to find self

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