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The Touch of Madness – David Dobbs

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://psmag.com/magazine/the-touch-of-madness-mental-health-schizophrenia Click on the link above for this wonderful (lengthy – and well worth the time investment) piece. Nev’s perspective aligns with how we see ‘madness’ at this service. Thank you, David – and Nev. Also thanks to Jason Hine, … Continue reading →

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The Stranger in You – David Whyte

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the above link to visit David’s Facebook page for another haunting image and some beautiful words… The theme of coming home to ourselves – including more of who we are – is so central to therapy. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, David Whyte, embodiment, emotions, empowerment, encounter, growth, identity, internal locus of evaluation, meaning, metaphor & dream, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, photographs & pictures, poetry, presence, self, working with clients | Tagged abandoned self, actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, awakening, awareness, beloved, Coleman's Bed, conditions of worth, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Whyte, disowned aspects of self, disowned self, embodied wisdom, encountering yourself, expanding awareness, finding a voice, finding your voice, finding your way, finding yourself, higher self, including yourself, innate wisdom, internal locus, inward journey, journey within, listening to yourself, lost self, lostness, low cost counselling exeter, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, reclaiming yourself, River Flow, self compassion, self experiencing, Stranger in You, stranger self, unknown self, welcoming self, welcoming yourself, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

‘Like a silkworm weaving’ Akka Mahadevi – the eclipse, shadow & growth by Ivan Granger

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2015/09/30/akka-mahadevi-like-a-silkworm-weaving/ Beautiful poem by Akka Mahadevi, and profound and beautifully expressed reflections by Ivan in the wake of September’s lunar eclipse. Here’s a taste:- ‘The thing about the dark parts of life and the dark parts of our own psyches … Continue reading →

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