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Tag Archives: Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster on Sadness and anger
Some extraordinarily important words from Jeff about our relationship with emotions perceived as ‘difficult’ and the judgments these attract…. We are often struck by how common those judgments are, even among the ‘spiritual’ and even among therapists – as if … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, anger, boundaries, congruence, Disconnection, emotions, human condition, Jeff Foster, loss, love, meaning, perception, power, presence, sadness & pain, self, self concept, shaming, spirituality, surrender, transformation, vulnerability
Tagged acceptance, acceptance of emotions, acceptance of feelings, affordable counselling exeter, anger and boundaries, anger and power, authenticity, boundaries, coming home to ourselves, congruence, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, difficult emotions, ego mind, impermanence, Jeff Foster, letting go, love and impermanence, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, purpose of anger, purpose of sadness, remembering ourselves, sacredness, sadness and being open, self protection, separate self, shame and difficult feeling, speaking truth, speaking your truth, transience, use of anger, use of sadness, wholeness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Bell Hooks on patriarchal violence to men
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an … Continue reading
Posted in 'evil', abuse, conditions of worth, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, fear, identity, masculine, non-conforming, political, power and powerlessness, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, shame, shaming, trauma, violence, vulnerability
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, assumption, Bell Hooks, Charles Eisenstein, coercive conformity, coercive cultural norms, coercive culture, coercive social norms, conditions of worth, conditions of worth for boys, conditions of worth for men, conformity, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural distortion, discrimination, discrimination against men, displaced expression, external locus, George Monbiot, guilty until proven innocent, Jason Hine, Jeff Foster, low cost counselling exeter, Mark Greene, masculine, masculine nurture, masculinity, men and emotion, misuse of power, non-conforming, nurture in men, oppression, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, patriarchal culture, patriarchy, person centred counselling exeter, projection, projective identification, projective reality, punishment for not conforming, reclaiming the masculine, repression, ridicule, rituals of power, sacred masculine, self concept, self distortion, self suppression, self-structure, sexualisation of the masculine, sexualization of the masculine, shame, shaming, shaming men, suppression, suspicion, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Jeff Foster on the fundamentals of healing, teaching (& therapy)
Update 29 December: for some reason, this link is not showing up for all readers (thank you, Thad!). In case that includes you, the Jeff Foster quotation is:- “A true healer does not heal you; she simply reflects back to … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, beauty, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, equality, growth, healing, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Jeff Foster, kindness & compassion, love, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, teaching, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, unconditional positive regard, working with clients
Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, authenticity, blaming, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, empathy, external locus, getting out of the way, growth, healing, how we grow, how we learn, humiliating, humiliation, humility, internal locus, Jeff Foster, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, punishing, punishment, shame, shaming, spiritual teacher, spiritual teaching, spirituality, Tang Wei Min, task of healer, task of teacher, task of therapist, teaching, therapeutic growth, trust the client, trust the process, why love matters, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Healing happens when you get out of the way: Jeff Foster
Here’s a Facebook post from Jeff, which beautifully captures much of how we see the intention in person-centred therapy. We believe this is a helpful and healing way for any of us to be with someone in crisis, although challenging … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, core conditions, cultural questions, empathy, empowerment, fear, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Jeff Foster, love, non-directive counselling, person centred, relationship, sacred illness, sadness & pain, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, vulnerability, working with clients
Tagged acceptance, actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, being not doing, core conditions, counselling exeter, cultural norms, despair, distress, empathy, empowerment, healing, human condition, internal locus, Jeff Foster, life without a centre, love, low cost counselling exeter, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centered, person-centred, relationship, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, trust, trust the client, trust the process, vulnerability, working with clients
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C Shaw ‘Depression is not a Disease but an Indication that Human Consciousness needs to Change’
http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/depression-is-not-a-disease-but-an-indication-that-human-consciousness-needs-to-change/ Interesting article dated 12 August from C Shaw. We’re not entirely on board with all of it (for example the reference to ‘depression’ as ‘chemical and emotional imbalance of the brain’ – see Joanna Moncrieff on this subject), but … Continue reading
Posted in civil rights, clients' perspective, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, Jeff Foster, meditation, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, power, reality, sustainability
Tagged C Shaw, civil rights, coercive conformity, coercive reality, community, conformity, consciousness, consensual reality, counselling exeter, creativity, cultural norms, cultural pressure, deep relaxation, depression, disconnection, ecological issues, ecology, environmental issues, http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/, Human Rights, Jeff Foster, Joanna Moncrieff, Krishnamurti, Matt Licata, meditation, mother earth, natural world, normality, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, perception, pressure to conform, reality, separation, shift of consciousness, sick society, social norms, social pressures, Stephan Harding, Voces de Tierra, web of life
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