Tag Archives: hope

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez of Earth Guardians, speaking to the U.N. in Paris

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The writer finds it deeply disturbing to hear this 15 year old boy speak with passion about what affects us all, while the adults behind him disregard both him and his message…The comments on the video published on the internet tell … Continue reading →

Posted in awakening, compassion, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, empowerment, ethics, external locus, good, gratitude, grief, growing up, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, love, natural world, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, political, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, resilience, risk, sadness & pain, shadow, spirituality, sustainability, transformation, trauma, values & principles, violence, vulnerability | Tagged abundance, activism, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, altruism, authenticity, belonging, change, climate change, coming of age, community, competition, connection, consciousness shift, consumer culture, consumer society, consumerism, consumption, core conditions, corporate power, corporate-driven consumerism, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cultural diversity, cultural values, deforestation, disconnection, Earth Guardians, earth mother, ecological, ecological diversity, ecological exploitation, ecological issues, economic exploitation, economic growth fallacy, economic growth level, economic inequality, economic power, economic sustainability, ecosystems, education, environmental issues, environmental sustainability, existential meaning, Gaia, gratitude, green economy, grieving for the earth, growth paradigm, Guardian, holistic well being, hope, indigenous people, interconnectedness, interconnection, interconnection and belonging, interdependence, low cost counselling exeter, meaning, mindfulness, natural world, nonrenewable energy sources, Pachamama, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, person centred counselling exeter, practice of gratitude, profit-driven economy, relationship, resilience, sacred economics, sacred space, scarcity mindset, separation, shift of consciousness, spirituality, sustainability, sustainable ecology, sustainable economy, transformative change, trauma, web of life, well-being, wonder, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | 1 Comment

Alan Watts – You’re It

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Alan Watts doing what he does…. On the nature of reality, and on fear. Deep and thoughtful. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

Posted in acceptance, Alan Watts, awakening, consciousness, Disconnection, dying, embodiment, emotions, empowerment, fear, flow, growth, human condition, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, love, meaning, mindfulness, natural world, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, sadness & pain, self, sleep, spirituality, surrender, trust, vulnerability, wonder | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Alan Watts, alienation, anxiety, awakening, awareness, belonging, Buddhist philosophy, connectedness, connection, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, death, embodied presence, embodiment, energy flow, energy wave, existential anxiety, existential fear, existential terror, experience, experienced reality, fear, flow, happiness, hope, illusory reality, impermanence, insecurity, instinctual wisdom, integration, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, low cost counselling exeter, memory, metamorphosis, mindfulness, observing self, organismic, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, past experience, person centred counselling exeter, personhood, presence, present experience, primary consciousness, relationship, Self, self help, self illusion, self-consciousness, selfhood, separation, terror, transformation, transience, unconscious wisdom, unconsciousness, wholeness, wisdom, www.brainpickings.org, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 2 Comments

Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips … Continue reading →

Posted in beauty, conditions of worth, core conditions, creativity, embodiment, emotions, empathy, encounter, fear, forgiveness, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, physical being, poetry, presence, relationship, risk, sadness & pain, sexual being, surrender, touch, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, being seen, being seen by another, belonging, brokenness, Clementine von Radics, closeness, coming home, conditional love, conditions of worth, connectedness, connection, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, empathy, encounter, fear, forgiveness, grief, grieving, healing, home, homecoming, hope, human relationship, imperfection, imperfectness, interconnection, intimacy, loneliness, loss, love poems, love poetry, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, relationship, romantic love, separation, sexual love, sexual relationship, trust, unconditional love, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Why Does Mainstream Psychiatry Fear a Balanced Understanding of Psychosis? Ron Unger

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2015/11/why-does-mainstream-psychiatry-fear-a-balanced-understanding-of-psychosis/#more-1682 Useful, interesting article on the BPS Report, ‘Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia’ and the mainstream psychiatric response. Thanks, Ron. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

Posted in anti-psychotics, clients' perspective, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, DSM, ethics, external locus, fear, genetics, healing, hearing voices, loneliness, meaning, metaphor & dream, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, relationship, resilience, Ron Unger, schizophrenia, self, self concept, trauma, vulnerability | Tagged Adverse Childhood Experiences, adverse childhood experiences and schizophrenia, adverse experiences, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, assumptions in psychiatry, balance, balanced perception, Big Pharma, BPS report, certainty, changing perspective, child abuse, childhood trauma, complexity, coping mechanisms, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Debra Lampshire, differences, disease and disorder model, disorders of reality perception, distorted reality, distress, dogma, dogmatism in psychiatry, Eleanor Longden, environmental factors in schizophrenia, external locus, extreme experiences, extreme states of mind and creativity, fear and suspicion, fear of others, fragmentation, genetic causes for schizophrenia, hearing voices, Hearing Voices Network, hope, humanistic, HVN, idée fixe, ideological certainty, ideology, internal locus, interpretation of mental events, interpreting our experience, Joe Pierre, low cost counselling exeter, mainstream psychiatry, making sense of extreme states, manipulation through fear, meaning, mental event, NIMH, normalising psychosis, normalizing psychosis, nuance, othering, otherness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paranoia, perception and reality, person centred counselling exeter, pharmaceutical industry, protection, protective mechanisms, psychiatric coercion, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, psychiatric power, psychiatry and Big Pharma, psychiatry and power, psychosocial factors in schizophrenia, psychotic states, re-storying, reality, reality perception, response to adverse experiences, romanticising psychosis, romanticizing psychosis, Ron Coleman, Ronald Pies, self care, self protection, separation, social conformity, social manipulation, storying, terror, threat response, traumatic memory, trust, Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia, us and them, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, www.recoveryfromschizophrenia.org | Leave a comment

The nature of the struggle by Fay Honey Knopp

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“The struggle for most of us has never been whether to continue or give up, but rather: how to lead a life of integrity with the fewest of contradictions in a culture that often devalues, inhibits, negates, or co-opts the … Continue reading →

Posted in 'evil', anger, conflict, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, ethics, grief, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, meaning, non-conforming, paradigm shift, perception, political, sadness & pain, spirituality, trauma, values & principles | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural values, ethics, existential meaning, Fay Honey Knopp, hope, hopelessness, human condition, human suffering, injustice, integrity, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, person centred counselling exeter, principles, purpose of life, toxic culture, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Person-centred Basics – Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne on building trust via the core conditions

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The second in our occasional series of refreshers in some of the fundamentals of a person-centred approach to therapeutic work. The following examples from Dave and Brian cluster around the central theme of building trust, and which core conditions may … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, Brian Thorne, clients' perspective, communication, conditions of worth, congruence, core conditions, Dave Mearns, Disconnection, diversity, emotions, empathy, encounter, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, love, non-directive counselling, perception, person centred, person centred theory, presence, relationship, self concept, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, unconditional positive regard, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged acceptance, accurate empathy, actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, aggressive client, aggressiveness, anxiety, authenticity, being deeply understood, beliefs, Brian Thorne, building trust, challenge, client in crisis, client self-disclosure, companionship, conditions of worth, congruence, core conditions, counselling exeter, counselling process, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cynical client, cynicism, Dave Mearns, defensiveness, despair, discipline of therapy, dread, empathic ability, empathic interchange, empathic listening, empathic understanding, empathy, establishing trust, fear, feelings of worthlessness, genuineness, hardened client, helping professions, hope, inauthenticity, learning to wait, low cost counselling exeter, low self esteem, mechanistic counselling techniques, non defensive, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, panic, patience, patience in therapy, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, Person-centred Counselling in Action, poetry, powerlessness, professional client, psychiatric model, receiving feelings, rejection, relationship, Richard Church, self concept, self disclosure, self rejecting client, self rejection, self-negation, self-structure, shame, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, therapeutic work, trust, trust in counselling, trust in therapy, unconditional positive regard, unconditional regard, unconditionality, understanding, UPR, validating feelings, warmth in therapy, willingness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

When Children Lie – Patty Wipfler – Hand in Hand Parenting

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/when-children-lie/ This is a helpful site, and a helpful article, if you are looking to find effective ways to parent outside the culturally prevalent models of fault, blame and punishment. In the writer’s experience, most parents deeply want what is … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, accountability, anger, blaming, child development, communication, compassion, conditions of worth, conflict, consent, core conditions, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, family systems, fear, generational trauma, growing up, Hand in Hand Parenting, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, parenting, power and powerlessness, relationship, self, self concept, self esteem, shame, shaming, teaching, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, anger, blame, boundaries, boundaries in parenting, closeness, coercive parenting, coercive relationship, cold shoulder, competition, competitiveness, conditions of worth, conscious parenting, consequences, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dealing with tantrums, dependence, disapproval, discipline in parenting, disconnection, effect of competition on children, effect of competition on self esteem, emotional safety, emotional truths, empathy, excluding, exclusion, experimentation in parenting, external locus, fear, handling tantrums, hope, humiliating, humiliation, intimacy, judgemental parenting, learning in parenting, love, low cost counselling exeter, lying in children, meeting needs indirectly, motivation, my child lies, need for approval, need for attention, need for love, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Patty Wipfler, perceived threat, person centered parenting, person centred counselling exeter, person centred parenting, person-centered, person-centred, positive attention, power imbalance, punishing, punishment, punishment as control, relational withdrawal, responsibility, safety, saying no, security, self concept, self esteem in children, shame, shaming, social lies, standards of truth, stay listening, staylistening, tantrums, threat, toxic culture, toxic shame, trust, truth telling, understanding, undivided attention, when children lie, withdrawal, www.handinhandparenting.org, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness & How to Live with Presence – Maria Popova

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/ Useful article from Maria Popova at http://www.brainpickings.org on Alan Watts and ‘The Wisdom of Insecurity’. The writer especially liked Alan’s observations about awareness and thought:- ‘While you are watching this present experience, are you aware of someone watching it? … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, Alan Watts, awakening, cognitive, consciousness, creativity, Disconnection, fear, flow, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, Maria Popova, meaning, mindfulness, perception, presence, reality, sadness & pain, self, transformation | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, age of anxiety, Alan Watts, alienation, Annie Dillard, anxiety, awakening, awareness, belonging, Carl Rogers, connection, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creative process, creative thinking, creativity, death, embodied presence, embodiment, existential anxiety, existential fear, experience, experienced reality, fear, happiness, Henry Miller, hope, illusory reality, impermanence, insecurity, instinctual wisdom, integration, interconnectedness, interconnection, isolation, loneliness, low cost counselling exeter, Maria Popova, memory, metamorphosis, mindfulness, observing self, organismic, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, past experience, person centred counselling exeter, personhood, presence, present experience, primary consciousness, relationship, Self, self help, self illusion, self-consciousness, self-improvement, selfhood, separation, the pursuit of happiness, transformation, transience, unconscious wisdom, unconsciousness, wholeness, wisdom, Wisdom of Insecurity, www.brainpickings.org, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Hope Chest: The writing on the wall – Kim Johancen-Walt

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://ct.counseling.org/2015/03/the-hope-chest-the-writing-on-the-wall/ Interesting couple of case studies with Kim’s thoughts, from Counseling Today, a publication of The American Counseling Association. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in abuse, acceptance, actualizing tendency, anger, awakening, beauty, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, conflict, core conditions, dependence, Disconnection, Eating, emotions, empowerment, encounter, external locus, family systems, fear, forgiveness, grief, growth, healing, identity, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, loss, love, meaning, perception, person centred, person centred theory, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, suicide, surrender, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged abandonment, abuse, acceptance, achievement, acknowledgement, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcohol abuse, American Counseling Association, approval, awareness, awareness and change, behaviour patterns, childhood physical abuse, childhood sexual abuse, childhood violent abuse, commitment in therapy, compassion, complex grief, complicated grief, conditions of worth, Counseling Today, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cycles of abandonment, cycles of abuse, depression, despair, expectations in therapy, forgiveness, frustration, good enough, grief, growth, healing, hope, identity, Kim Johancen-Walt, letting go, limiting beliefs, loss, love, loving kindness, low cost counselling exeter, Maitri, meaning, minimizing feelings, natural healing process, not good enough, numbing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perfectionism, perpetuating abuse, perpetuating trauma, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personal experience, personal identity, personal needs, powerlessness, recovery, relationship, self abandonment, self abuse, self concept, self criticism, self esteem, self harm, self medication, self punishment, self worth, self-injury, stuckness, stuckness in therapy, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, suicidal intention, suicidal thoughts, suicide, surrender, The Hope Chest, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, thought patterns, transformative change, trauma, unconditional positive regard, unresolved grief, UPR, victim identity, victim mentality, victim mindset, victimhood, withholding love, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Patrick Speaks – Unreported World

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/patrickspeaks?source=feed_text&story_id=10206189718128168 This is just lovely….the writer cried at the point where he begins to get what is being offered – seeing the fire of hope catch and leap….Magical and inspiring. Gratitude to Raymond for the work he is doing, lighting … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, beauty, civil rights, communication, consciousness, dependence, Disconnection, education, empowerment, equality, good, healing, identity, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, political, power and powerlessness, relationship, self concept, teaching, therapeutic growth, transformation | Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, altruism, awakening, beauty, belonging, civil rights, communication, consiousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dependence, disconnection, economic inequality, education, empowerment, ethic of service, good, hope, identity, inequality, interconnectedness, interconnection, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, political, powerlessness, self concept, social inequality, teaching, transformation, web of life, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: hope

Archives

Meta