Tag Archives: self nurture

Marion Woodman on the power of love

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Love is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out … Continue reading →

Posted in healing, love, Marion Woodman, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, experiencing acceptance, feeling emotions, love and growth, low cost counselling exeter, Marion Woodman, offering love, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, real feeling, receiving nurture, reparenting, self acceptance, self care, self compassion, self concept, self love, self nurture, therapeutic relationship, why love matters, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Marion Woodman on Growth

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“There is no growth without real feeling. Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, compassion, conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, emotions, growing up, growth, love, Marion Woodman, parenting, person centred, presence, relationship, self concept, unconditional positive regard | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, being accepted, Coming Home to Myself, conditional love, conditional regard, conditions of worth, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, deep feeling, experiencing acceptance, feeling emotions, inner child, low cost counselling exeter, Marion Woodman, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, pleasing others, real feeling, receiving nurture, reparenting, seeking approval, self acceptance, self care, self compassion, self concept, self love, self nurture, self-structure, winning approval, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Sweet Darkness – David Whyte

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Beautiful, resonant words and photograph from David’s Facebook page. Here’s the text, for those who have difficulty seeing Facebook links:- ‘SWEET DARKNESS When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, creativity, David Whyte, Disconnection, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, meaning, perception, physical being, resilience, sleep, surrender, vulnerability | Tagged acceptance, affordable counselling exeter, aliveness, aloneness, autonomy, belonging, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Whyte, depletion, disconnection, exhaustion, freedom, letting go, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, replenishing, replenishment, resilience, resting, self care, self nurture, smallness, surrender, Sweet Darkness, tiredness, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Matt Licata on Ego

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Ego’ for many of us becomes a term of abuse for self/other and source of shame. Here’s a radically different and far more accurate/useful take on this…. Thanks, Matt. Here’s the text for those who have difficulty seeing Facebook links:- … Continue reading →

Posted in blaming, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, encounter, human condition, identity, kindness & compassion, love, Matt Licata, meaning, meditation, organismic experiencing, perception, presence, sadness & pain, self, self concept, shame, shaming, spirituality, vulnerability | Tagged 'eating disorder', abandoning experience, addictive behavior, addictive behaviour, addictive eating, affordable counselling exeter, anxious avoidant attachment, aroused nervous system, attachment, attachment figures, attuning to experience, avoiding feeling, avoiding pain, avoiding suffering, blaming, claustrophobia, coming home to yourself, compassionate response, compensatory behavior, compensatory behaviour, complaining, compulsive eating, conceptual spirituality, conscious awareness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, critical thoughts, cycle of abandonment, denying experience, denying feelings, denying pain, denying reality, disembodied, disembodiment, disordered eating, dissociation, doorway into wholeness, ego, ego as process, embodied response, embodied vulnerability, emotional suffering, empathy, escaping vulnerability, existential meaning, experience distant, experiencing ego, experiential, experiential learning, feeling unsafe, Great Mystery, heartbreak, heavy heart, humanness, invitation into presence, kind curiosity, kindness to self, limbic fight flight, longing, low cost counselling exeter, managing anxiety, Matt Licata, meaning of ego, meditative enquiry, moving away from pain, othering, overwhelming anxiety, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, panic, person centred counselling exeter, personal process, presence, process, projective identification, rage, restlessness, returning home, sadness, self abandonment, self aggression, self blaming, self care, self compassion, self empathy, self enquiry, self love, self nurture, self shaming, shame, shaming, spirituality, splitting, vulnerability, warmth, what is ego, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yogic response | Leave a comment

Seeking Sanctuary in Our Own Sacred Spaces – Parker J. Palmer

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.onbeing.org/blog/parker-palmer-seeking-sanctuary-in-our-own-sacred-spaces/8928 Click on the link to visit http://www.onbeing.org for this wonderful piece by Parker J Palmer on the importance of creating sanctuary in our lives, to support our doing what we can to survive in – and challenge – the … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, emotions, empowerment, encounter, fear, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, meaning, meditation, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, Parker J Palmer, power and powerlessness, presence, resilience, sadness & pain, spirituality, surrender, sustainability, vulnerability | Tagged activism, activism and overwork, affordable counselling exeter, becoming desensitised, becoming desensitized, being controlled, Bloody Sunday, Brown Chapel, bunker mentality, burn out, Carrie Newcomer, church attendance, civil rights movements, compulsory church attendance, Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, consumerism, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural violence, culture of violence, dealing with threat, depression, desensitisation, desensitization, disciplines of nonviolence, disregarding our needs, distracting, Edmund Pettus Bridge, escapism, excessive working, feeling controlled, finding safe space, fragile mental state, healing relationship, healing wounds, homophobia, human needs, idealism, inner wisdom, John Lewis, learning to pray, living non violently, low cost counselling exeter, making the world a better place, moral witness, mosh pit, natural world as sacred, non violence, normalising, normalizing, nurturing relationship, On Being, over committing, over extending, overriding our needs, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paranoia, Parker J Palmer, Parker Palmer, person centred counselling exeter, power of friendship, practice of non violence, practice of solitude, prayer, praying, racism, reclaiming your soul, retreat from the world, returning to the world, root of inner wisdom, sacred space, sacred to the soul, sacredness, sacredness of nature, safe space, sanctuary, seeking sanctuary, self awareness, self care, self isolation, self love, self nurture, sensitivity, shared silence, shelter from the storm, siege mentality, solitude, spiritual survival, The Beautiful Not Yet, Thomas Merton, threat response, tribalism, violence of activism and overwork, violent culture, what is depression, William Wordsworth, wounded healer, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Dave Mearns on the counsellor’s practice of self-care

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Our view at this service is that by far the most important attribute of any therapist (and what we look for when therapists seek to volunteer here) is a strong, consistent commitment to their own self-care, awareness and personal growth. We take … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, accountability, compassion, core conditions, Dave Mearns, Disconnection, embodiment, encounter, ethics, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, meaning, natural world, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, person centred theory, physical being, poetry, presence, relationship, resilience, spirituality, surrender, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, values & principles, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, appreciation, awareness, cherishing, closed heart, closedness, commitment, compassion, connectedness, connection, core conditions, counselling ethics, counselling exeter, counselling relationship, counselling supervision, counselling training, counsellor attributes, counsellor Exeter, counsellor self care, counsellor’s use of therapy, counsellors Exeter, Dave Mearns, Developing Person Centred Counselling, disconnection, embodiment, encounter, ethic of service, ethical practice, existential meaning, feeling cherished, healing, healing relationship, higher power, human value, ideal self, internal supervisor, lacking compassion, loving disposition towards self, low cost counselling exeter, meaning of life, open heart, openness, openness to love, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person centred counsellor, person centred practice, person centred therapist, person-centred, personal development, personal discipline, personal growth, personal practice, personal therapy, physical being, presence, presence of God, reflective practice, relational depth, relationship as healing agent, relationship with body, relationship with others, release, self acceptance, self attention, self awareness, self care, self compassion, self deprecation, self exploration, self neglect, self nurture, self nurturing, self recrimination, self reflection, self rejection, spiritual practice, spirituality, surrender, therapeutic relationship, therapist attributes, therapist self care, therapist’s use of therapy, therapy training, time structures, transcendental encounter, use of time, way of being, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Anne Lamott on The New Year Diet

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Characteristic humour and depth from Anne, on a seasonally relevant theme…. This touches on personal experience for me. I have experienced similar battles to Anne’s. In my past life, I regularly embarked on diets. I have also found more of value in deeper connection … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, Anne Lamott, awakening, bodywork, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, cultural questions, Dance, dependence, Disconnection, Eating, embodiment, emotions, healing, humour, identity, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, meditation, mindfulness, movement meditation, objectification, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, physical being, presence, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, shame, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, vulnerability | Tagged 'eating disorder', addictive behaviour, addictive eating, affordable counselling exeter, Anne Lamott, awakening, awareness, body dysmorphia, body image, building self esteem, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, conscious dance, conscious eating, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dieting, displaced behaviour, displaced expression, displacement, embodied being, embodiment, emotional eating, food as love, food as substitute for love, injuries to sense of self, lack of love, low cost counselling exeter, movement meditation, negative body image, new year diet, nourishment, nurture, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, self abuse, self concept, self esteem, self hatred, self love, self nourishing, self nurture, self punishment, self-loathing, self-structure, sense of self, sugar addiction, sugar craving, therapeutic relationship, therapy, transformation, trauma, trauma response, veganism, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Brené Brown on Cultivating Love

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, Brene Brown, core conditions, emotions, empathy, encounter, friendship, growth, immanence, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, shame, spirituality, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, belonging, betrayal, blame, blame model, Brené Brown, compassion, connection, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, disrespect, empathy, fault and blame, growth, interconnectedness, interconnection, kindness, love, loving connection, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, relationship, self care, self love, self nurture, shame, spirituality, The Gifts of Imperfection, trust, vulnerability, withdrawal from relationship, withholding, withholding affection, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: self nurture

Archives

Meta