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Dr. Gabor Maté on Donald Trump, Traumaphobia & Compassion – John Lavitt

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.thefix.com/dr-gabor-mate-donald-trump-traumaphobia-and-compassion-interview ‘…a few days ago, I met a young woman who was an emergency room physician in Detroit, and she had graduated from medical school in Michigan. Although I knew the answer, I asked her how many lectures she had … Continue reading →

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Spinning Straw – Tracy Cochran

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://parabola.org/2017/07/30/spinning-straw-by-tracy-cochran/?utm_content=buffer9bcb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Click on the link above to visit the site for Parabola Magazine for this remarkable reworking of the Brothers Grimm. It is not long since we published a piece by Tracy – but the writer stumbled upon this at … Continue reading →

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The Lid is Off – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Lid is Off Click on the link above for this perceptive, important piece by Charles Eisenstein on www/charleseisenstein.net And here are some book links:- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Hearts-Possible-Sacred-Activism/dp/1583947248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476434506&sr=8-1&keywords=charles+eisenstein https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Economics-Money-Society-Transition/dp/1583943978/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1476434506&sr=8-2&keywords=charles+Eisenstein https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ascent-Humanity-Civilization-Human-Sense/dp/1583946365/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1476434506&sr=8-3&keywords=charles+eisenstein Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

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Liz Gilbert on creativity & the struggle to find self

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

We found this simultaneously distressing and hopeful. Distressing, in terms of the punitive ‘criminal justice’ systems both here and in the U.S., which further disempower, traumatize and dehumanize people who already have a damaging bed rock of those life experiences … Continue reading →

Posted in autonomy, awakening, cognitive, compassion, conditions of worth, creativity, criminal justice model, cultural questions, Disconnection, Elizabeth Gilbert, empathy, empowerment, encounter, healing, identity, perception, political, power and powerlessness, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, shaming, transformation, trauma, violence, vulnerability | Tagged actualising, actualizing, addiction, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, autonomy, awakening, awakening consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, criminal justice system, Elizabeth Gilbert, finding redemption, Harley Loco, heart home, heart space, human spirit, importance of libraries, Jamie Ferreira, labelling, Liz Gilbert, low cost counselling exeter, metamorphosis, Mirror Me, need for libraries, othering, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, power and powerlessness, prison as response to trauma, prison reform, prison system, Rayya Elias, redemption, Riker's Island, Riker's Island library, scapegoating, self concept, self-structure, social inequality, social injustice, social justice, struggle of finding self, transformation, trauma, trauma and addiction, trauma response, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Liz Gilbert on Mercy

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Timely post from Liz on the high cost of ‘othering’ people, our interdependence and our need for compassion towards ourselves and each other. Here’s her latest book:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Magic-Creative-Living-Beyond/dp/1408866730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448297023&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+gilbert+big+magic And here’s Mary Gauthier, on the same theme:- https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/mary-gauthier-mercy-now/ Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading →

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Person-centred basics: expertise of the person-centred counsellor – Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The fourth in our occasional series of person-centred fundamentals. ‘The person-centred counsellor must learn to wear her expertise as an invisible garment in order to be an effective counsellor. Experts are expected to dispense their expertise, to recommend what should … Continue reading →

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Eyes Open by Jess Davies

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/eyes-open-by-jess-davies/ Click on the link for this powerful and moving poem about sexual experiencing, written and spoken by Jess Davies. Thank you to Jess, Reuben Woolley and ‘I am not a silent poet’ on Facebook and WordPress. Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, communication, conditions of worth, consent, creativity, cultural questions, emotions, empathy, feminine, Gender & culture, internal locus of evaluation, organismic experiencing, perception, poetry, political, power and powerlessness, relationship, sexual being, sexual violence, touch, trauma, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, conditions of worth, consent, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, emotional abandonment, empathy, feminine sexual experience, feminine sexual experiencing, gender and culture, gender and sexuality, I am not a silent poet, Jess Davies, low cost counselling exeter, not a silent poet, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, power and powerlessness, relationship, Reuben Woolley, sexual being, sexual experiencing, sexual trauma, sexual violence, trauma, trust, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Gabor Maté: On Storytelling, Health, and the Ruling Class, with Ryan Meili

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/gabor-mate-storytelling Click on the link for Part 2 of this fascinating, wide-ranging interview with Gabor Mate (Part 1 was yesterday’s post). The writer is often struck with the strong links between what Gabor is saying, and person-centred. For example, Rogers … Continue reading →

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