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Tag Archives: presence
Toko-pa on Invitational presence
Beautiful description of therapeutic relationship…and indeed relationship… Here’s the wording for anyone who has trouble following Facebook links:- “Whether we are looking to create closeness with others, with nature, or with the living mystery, an invitational presence is the prerequisite … Continue reading →
Posted in community, core conditions, cultural questions, empathy, encounter, interconnection & belonging, love, person centred, presence, relationship, therapeutic relationship, Toko-pa
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, attention, attentive listening, attentiveness, being heard, being seen, belonging, closeness, communication, connectedness, connection, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creating closeness, creating relationship, deep listening, empathy, encounter, expressing love, expressing understanding, feeling heard, feeling seen, I Thou, inseparability, interconnection, interconnection & belonging, interdependence, intimacy, invitational presence, listening, love, loving relationship, low cost counselling exeter, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, presence, relationship, sacred space, shared memory, tenderness, therapeutic relationship, Toko-pa, trust in relationship, welcoming presence, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Small Gods – Martin Shaw
http://drmartinshaw.com/essays/ Click on the link above for another powerful piece from Martin. Here’s a taste:- ‘Once upon a time there was a lonely hunter. One evening, returning to his hut over the snow, he saw smoke coming from his chimney. … Continue reading →
Posted in accountability, awakening, beauty, communication, community, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological issues, embodiment, encounter, grief, healing, immanence, interconnection & belonging, love, Martin Shaw, meaning, metaphor & dream, myth, natural world, non-conforming, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, poetry, political, presence, rewilding, surrender, transformation
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Tagged abundance, accountability, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, aliveness, ambiguity, ancestors, animism, anthropocentric stories, anthropocentrism, awareness of story, base line of anxiety, base line of relationship, beholding, being bereft, being broken, bone woman, bones of the tale, bush soul, capacity to devour, community, connection, consumerism, containing paradox, contemporary numbness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, crafting a story, cultural history, earth dreaming, earth intelligence, earth potency, earth resonances, earth speaking, earth speaking through myth, earth wisdom, edginess of allegory, edginess of myth, edginess of story, ego surrender, embodied intelligence, embodied story, ethic of service, fairy tales, fairy tales and the psyche, feeling better, finding true north, finding your way, folk tales, folk traditions, folk wisdom, giving voice, grieving, Grimms folktales, healing, heartfulness, hero myth, holistic intelligence, humility, individuation, initiation, initiatory experience, inner compass, interaction, interbeing, interconnection, inward compass, la loba, listening, living myth, local embedding, love and morality, low cost counselling exeter, magicians, Martin Shaw, meeting paradox, metaphor and emotional meaning, metaphor and psychology, modernity, mystery, myth and earth wisdom, myth and the psyche, myth as the earth speaking, myth of our times, myth of the wound, narrative for our times, need for wildness, new narrative, new story, numbing, old tales, oral culture, oral repetition, oral storytelling, oral tradition, orienting yourself, Otherworld, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, poetic intelligence, presence, privilege, purpose of myth, purpose of story, reconnecting with the earth, relatedness, relationship to the earth, relationship to the land, rewilding humans, rewilding narrative, rewilding story, rites of passage, sacredness, seduction of being broken, seduction of the wound, self initiate, sense of connection, sensual intelligence, shadow, silent retreat, small gods, snare of the wound, social mythology, stilling, stories have us, story for our times, storyteller’s apprenticeship, submission, surrender, true north, turning to myth, use of metaphor, use of myth, use of prophecy, vaster intelligence, vision quest, web of being, web of life, welcoming a story, where do stories come from, where we come from, wholeness, Wild Land Dreaming, wild mythology, wild nature, wilderness fasting, wilderness initiation, wilderness rites of passage, wildness, wisdom of the earth, wisdom of the land, wound as gift, wound as passage, wound as truth, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay – Monica Cassani
The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay Click on the above link to visit Monica’s site http://www.beyondmeds.com for this piece she published last week on ‘World Mental Health Day’. Her perspective and ours at this service have lots in common. Both … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, autonomy, consent, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, empowerment, ethics, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, internal locus of evaluation, Monica Cassani, non-conforming, objectification, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, shadow, transformation, trauma, violence
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, alternative mental health care, alternative psychiatric care, attending to the body, authoritarianism as violence, authority as violence, authority over others is violence, autonomy, breaking down, breaking through, can madness save us, care for psychosis, Chris Cole, coercion in medicine, coercive mental health treatment, coercive paradigms, coercive psychiatry, collective caring, coming off psychiatric drugs, community mental health, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug free recovery, emotional pain, everything matters, faith, finding a safe space, finding support, forced psychiatric treatment, forced treatment, having well being, healing journey, health and well-being, helping professions, holistic health, iatrogenic injury, improving well being, Jiddu Krishnamurti, learning to live well, loving the body, loving your body, low cost counselling exeter, medical adherence, medical compliance, medical model, medically induced injury, meditation, mental distress, mental health and eating, mental health system, mental health treatment, mental illness system, mental pain, mentally ill, Monica Cassani, needing a safe space, no measure of health, non compliance, non conformity, Open Dialogue, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paying attention, peer support, person centred counselling exeter, personal agency, personal sovereignty, presence, pro choice in psychiatry, professional retraumatisation, professional retraumatization, providing sanctuary, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric harm, psychiatric labels, recovering and thriving, resistance to treatment as sign of health, retaining agency, Robert Whitaker, self care, self empowering, sick culture, sick society, state of mental health care, support in growth, support in healing, supporting others, supporting vulnerable people, systemic oppression, trauma, trusting your own process, using practice, vulnerability, well adjusted, wellness, withdrawal syndrome, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Michael Leunig on 7 Types of Ordinary Happiness
Thanks to Tara (and Sido) for this. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994
Posted in consciousness, emotions, encounter, joy, Michael Leunig, natural world
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, happiness, healing, human condition, kindness, low cost counselling exeter, Michael Leunig, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, poetry, presence, Self, self acceptance, self care, self compassion, tenderness, trust, well-being, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Alan Watts on the art of living
“The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the … Continue reading →
Posted in Alan Watts, awakening, mindfulness, presence
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Alan Watts, aliveness, art of living, conscious living, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, low cost counselling exeter, mindfulness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, receptivity, sensitivity to life, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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John O’Donohue on the prayer of your soul
“Give yourself time to make a prayer that will become the prayer of your soul. Listen to the voice of longing in your soul. Listen to your hungers. Give attention to the unexpected that lives around the rim of your … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, empowerment, growth, identity, immanence, internal locus of evaluation, John O'Donohue, meaning, meditation, presence, spirituality, surrender, transformation, vulnerability
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Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, awakening, beauty, call of eternity, call of the divine, call of your soul, conscious living, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, embodied knowing, embodied wisdom, Eternal Echoes, expanding your consciousness, expanding your soul, finding your essence, finding your way, gentleness, gratitude, hearing the voice of your soul, heart centered, heart centred, heart language, heart voice, holiness, honoring your soul, honouring your soul, immanence, inner compass, inner knowing, intention and prayer, invitation of your soul, inward compass, John O'Donohue, learning to listen, listening imagination, longing, loving life, low cost counselling exeter, making a mantra, making a prayer, narcissism, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perceptions of reality, person centred counselling exeter, prayer, prayer and destiny, prayer of the soul, presence, sacredness, seeking change, self absorption, sense of the sacred, soul prayer, soul voice, soul wisdom, soulful living, source, spirituality, surrender, trusting your inner wisdom, trusting yourself, valuing life, veils of illusion, visioning, voice of the soul, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Martin Shaw on Myth, Love & our Inward Compass
“By going deeper into myth, I go deeper into love, and when I go deeper into love, innately I find morality; I locate a True North in my own heart.” Martin Shaw Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, emotions, internal locus of evaluation, love, Martin Shaw, meaning, metaphor & dream, myth, presence, transformation
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, finding true north, finding your way, heartfulness, inner compass, inward compass, love and morality, low cost counselling exeter, Martin Shaw, orienting yourself, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, purpose of myth, true north, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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