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‘What’s the Cure for Whining?’ Patty Wipfler – Hand in Hand Parenting

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link below for another helpful article from Patty, about how to help your child with their difficult feelings, and get beyond the unhelpfulness of blaming and punishing. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994 … Continue reading →

Posted in anger, blaming, child development, communication, conflict, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, family systems, Hand in Hand Parenting, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, loneliness, love, parenting, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, self concept, self esteem, shaming, touch, trust, vulnerability | Tagged aloneness, ancestral healing, ancestral pain, asking for help, attention, being loved, belonging, boundaries, catharsis, child behaviour, child’s frame of reference, childhood confidence, childhood distress, childhood needs, children whining, closeness, comforting children, communicating with children, communicating with your child, conflict, connectedness, connection, conscious parenting, contact, difficult feeling, disconnection, emotional climate, emotional outlets, emotional reality, emotional tasks, emotional weather, empathic listening, empathy, encounter, endings, expressing feelings, familial patterns, family patterns, feeling cherished, feeling disconnected, feeling loved, feeling powerless, feeling separate, fixing, frustration, helping children deal with endings, Helplessness, human needs, inner weather, inner well being, interconnection, intimacy, irrational requests, loneliness, manipulation, manipulative behaviour, naughty step, need for contact, parental anger, parental attention, parental availability, parental communication, parental exhaustion, parental resentment, parenting, persistent unhappiness, placating, play therapy, playfulness, powerlessness, presence, punishing, punishing children, punishment, reassurance, reassuring, releasing bad feelings, rescuing, responding not reacting, saying no, saying no to your child, self esteem, sense of connection, separateness, sibling competition, sibling rivalry, somatic expressions of distress, tantrums, time out, trust, uncomfortable feeling, understanding, unhappy mood, venting, well-being, whining, why love matters, zoning out | Leave a comment

John Rowan on the nature of assuming personal power

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘During the process of working with the real self, consciousness changes. The mental ego is mainly either existence-oriented or relationship-oriented. If existence-oriented, then the main concern is with power, mastery and control. If relatedness-oriented, the main concern is with conformity … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, awakening, blaming, Carl Rogers, consciousness, core conditions, Disconnection, emotions, empowerment, fear, flow, growth, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, person centred theory, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, resilience, risk, self, self concept, surrender, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged acceptability, affordable counselling exeter, approval of others, authenticity, autonomy, awareness, belonging, Carl Rogers, change, conditioning, conforming, conformity, connectedness, connection, conscious awareness, consciousness, control, controlling emotions, core conditions, counselling, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural conditioning, defiance, disconnecting, distorted reality, dominant emotion, dominating, domination, dualism, dualistic conception, dualistic world view, ecological systems, ego, ego defence, ego protection, ego structures, egoic mind, emotional states, empathy, existence-oriented, external locus, family conditioning, fear, feelings, flow, growth, harm, human nature, human needs, humanistic counselling, humanistic therapy, independence, integrating, integration, integration of the person, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, John Rowan, low cost counselling exeter, mastery, mental ego, Mother’s Knee, motivating emotion, motivation, non-conforming, numbing, openness, organismic, overwhelm, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, panic, people pleasing, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personal power, placating, power, process, process distortion, psychotherapy, rational action, Reality Game, rebellion, relatedness-oriented, relationship, relationship-oriented, resilience, risk, safety, security, seeking approval, seeking validation, Self, self acceptance, self concept structures, self protection, selfish, social conditioning, social responsibility, spontaneity, therapeutic process, therapy, threat, transformation, trust, validating experience, working with the real self, working with the self, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Oriah Mountain Dreamer on Putting herself to one side

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Stepping Away There is this pattern I sometimes unconsciously slip into that does not work well for me. I learned it early- a coping strategy in a childhood home where the adults’ underlying rage and unhappiness was like an ever-present … Continue reading →

Posted in child development, conditions of worth, Disconnection, external locus, family systems, growing up, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, relationship, self | Tagged conditions of worth, coping strategies, disconnection, external locus, internal locus, losing self, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, placating, pleasing others, seeking approval, self concept | Leave a comment

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‘What’s the Cure for Whining?’ Patty Wipfler – Hand in Hand Parenting

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