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Laura Delano on Feeling your feelings, empathy, compassion – & the shrink

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the above link to visit Laura’s Facebook page, for this moving, accurate, important post. We work outside the ‘mental health’/psychiatric system and terminology here. We choose our therapists for their willingness to do their own work and their … 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 →

Posted in beauty, consciousness, creativity, gratitude, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, love, Mary Oliver, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, poetry, reality, relationship, spirituality, therapeutic growth, wonder | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, beauty, belonging, conscious living, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, embodied, embodiment, fully alive, gratefulness, gratitude, human condition, humming bird, immanence, interconnection, joy, joyfulness, low cost counselling exeter, Mary Oliver, mindfulness, natural beauty, natural world, organismic experience, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, spirituality, the good life, the Messenger, wonder, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 2 Comments

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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Rune Moelbak: Is Talking Disappearing from Depression Therapy? (Commentary)

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.bettertherapy.com/blog/depression-therapy/ Click on the link for this post from Rune Moelbak in the U.S. Rune is psychodynamic in orientation, so his language and ideas differ somewhat from our person-centred perspective – but we resonate with the points he makes. Our … Continue reading →

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Rumi and The Guest House

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd … Continue reading →

Posted in consciousness, organismic experiencing, Rumi, spirituality | Tagged consciousness, counselling exeter, experience, Guest House, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Rumi, spirituality | Leave a comment

Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul – Claire Dunne

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

We think Jung was in many ways immensely person-centered in his approach. Here’s a quote from Claire Dunne’s interesting book: Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, which feels timely and relevant now – some of the language is a … Continue reading →

Posted in consciousness, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Jung, Monica Cassani, person centred, relationship, therapeutic relationship, working with clients | Tagged authenticity, Claire Dunne, counselling exeter, individuation, Jason Smith, Jung, organismic experience, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centered, relationship, therapeutic relationship, Wounded Healer of the Soul, www.beyondmeds.com | Leave a comment

Mary Oliver – The Journey

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Journey One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice –though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.“Mend my life!”each voice cried.But you didn’t stop.You … Continue reading →

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Naguib Mahfouz on Fear

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.’ Naguib Mahfouz http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naguib-Mahfouz/e/B000APYKVU/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1407424345&sr=1-2-ent Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in Carl Rogers, Disconnection, fear, human condition, organismic experiencing, person centred, risk, therapeutic growth | Tagged Carl Rogers, counselling exeter, fear, Naguib Mahfouz, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centred, self concept, the good life | Leave a comment

Toko-pa: The Unsplit-off Life

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2014/07/23/the-unsplit-off-life/ Click on the link to go to Toko-pa’s wonderful blog, which offers deep wisdom in beautiful, poetic language – this post is an excerpt from her upcoming book ‘On Belonging’, and speaks off what in ourselves/our lives we disown … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, congruence, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, fear, healing, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, mindfulness, person centred, reality, self, therapeutic growth, Toko-pa, transformation | Tagged acceptance, ambiguity, authentic experiencing, authenticity, belonging, Carl Rogers, congruence, consciousness, counselling exeter, creativity, healing, human condition, mindfulness, On Belonging, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centred, personal growth, Rogers, Self, self acceptance, self ownership, therapeutic growth, Toko-pa, transformation | Leave a comment

Wendell Berry – The Peace of Wild Things

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down … Continue reading →

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