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The Longing for Belonging – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-eisenstein/indigeneity-and-belonging_b_8011302.html Originally written for our local Schumacher College, in the context of a course Charles was leading. Charles features regularly on this blog – the writer believes him to be one of the important thinkers and writers of our time. … Continue reading →

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Lost, David Whyte & Beyond Meds

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/05/17/stand-still/ Click on the link to visit http://www.beyondmeds.com, for a post including this astonishing poem by David Wagoner:- Lost ‘Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Does Not Exist – Jay Watts

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/03/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-not-exist/ Interesting, politically savvy post by Jay Watts on the Mad in America site. Just as relevant here…. ‘By conflating a number of vastly divergent approaches with strikingly different ideas of what it means to be human and to suffer, … Continue reading →

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I Will Always Find You: The Homing of Human Connection – Drake Spaeth

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/02-26-15 Profound post from Drake on the wonderful Saybrook University site, about intuitive, embodied connection in relationship with ourselves/others, and within the web of life/our experiencing – and the support this offers us in finding our way:- ‘All of us … Continue reading →

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Shel Silverstein on validation

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Little Boy and the Old Man ‘Said the little boy, “Sometimes I drop my spoon.” Said the old man, “I do that too.” The little boy whispered, “I wet my pants.” “I do that too,” laughed the old man. … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, communication, core conditions, empathy, empowerment, equality, friendship, growing up, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, organismic experiencing, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, self concept, therapeutic relationship, trust | Tagged acceptance, affordable counselling exeter, belonging, communication, compassion, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, elders, empathy, empowerment, equality, friendship, growing up, growth, healing, interconnectedness, interconnection, interconnection and belonging, kindness, love, low cost counselling exeter, meaning, organismic, organismic experience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, power, powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness, self concept, Shel Silverstein, therapeutic relationship, trust, validation, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Carl Rogers on the process of becoming

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘I should like to point out one final characteristic of these individuals as they strive to discover and become themselves. It is that the individual seems to become more content to be a process rather than a product. When he … Continue reading →

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The Messenger – Mary Oliver

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Messenger ‘My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is … Continue reading →

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Michael Eigen on learning to be with our scream

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Just because one is a baby and stops screaming, it doesn’t mean that the scream goes away inside. There is a scream that goes on all life long no matter who we are or what we do. Some of us … Continue reading →

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Michael Mantas on Grief, Empathy, Compassion & Ritual

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Michael Mantas has kindly given us permission to blog his Facebook post of this touching film, showing a little boy grieving for a dead fish – and Michael’s comments on death and empathy which we thought were beautiful, and which … Continue reading →

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‘Healing is the leading forth of wholeness in people’ – Rachel Naomi Remen

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘I like to think of the word ‘healing’ in the relationship to curing, as coming to terms with things as they are. What healing is is a process through which we come to terms with the actuality of our situation … Continue reading →

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