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The Sea in You – David Whyte

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Beautiful. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

Posted in awakening, beauty, David Whyte, embodiment, emotions, encounter, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, love, organismic experiencing, perception, photographs & pictures, physical being, poetry, presence, relationship, sexual being, surrender, touch, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, being seen, belonging, closeness, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Whyte, desire, disconnection, encounter, heart's longing, intimacy, loneliness, longing, love, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, relationship, requited love, Sea in You, sexual being, sexual experiencing, sexual relationship, transience, trust, unrequited love, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Reclaiming Sweet Freedom – 23 things that we need not explain justify or defend – Isabel Abbott

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/09/reclaiming-sweet-freedom-23-things-that-we-need-not-explain-justify-or-defend/ Just gorgeous. This is written from the woman’s perspective, and the writer wants to expand it to include all of us (with any tweaks required to find the right fit for you). It’s wonderful, profound, poetic and important. Thanks, … 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

i carry your heart – ee cummings

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, … Continue reading →

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Ryan Woodward – Thought of you

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Gorgeous, deep, resonant short animation on longing, love and relationship. With thanks to Ryan Woodward, Missao Canada and Felipe Franca, and to Jürgen Teutsch and Lived Experience: the Reference of Life on Facebook for introducing us to Ryan. Jürgen had posted … Continue reading →

Posted in beauty, consciousness, creativity, Dance, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, love, metaphor & dream, movement meditation, music, physical being, relationship, Ryan Woodward, sadness & pain, sexual being, trust, vulnerability, working with couples | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, beauty, belonging, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, dance, dream, emotional pain, human condition, identity, interconnection, loneliness, loss, love, low cost counselling exeter, metaphor, movement meditation, music, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, relationship, Ryan Woodward, sadness, sexual being, trust, working with couples, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond – ee cummings

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose … Continue reading →

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Micaela Blei – New York City Moth StorySLAM – ‘Altered’

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Micaela’s winning story. Beautiful, on many levels….. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in beauty, conditions of worth, creativity, cultural questions, empowerment, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, loneliness, love, objectification, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, relationship, sadness & pain, self concept, self esteem, sexual being, shame, therapeutic growth, transformation, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Altered, beauty, body image, conditions of worth, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural norms, cultural norms of beauty, empowerment, external locus, ideals of beauty, internal locus, love, low cost counselling exeter, Micaela Blei, New York City Moth StorySLAM, objectification, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, physicality, plastic surgery, power, powerlessness, sadness, self concept, self esteem, self image, sexual being, sexual relationship, shame, transformation, unkindness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Your Sexuality: Ask & Tell: Alyssa Royse at TEDxRainier

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Forthright and sensible TED talk from Alyssa, making some valuable points about sexuality and the toxicity of sexual shame, backed up with a few hard-hitting statistics. She defines ‘sex’ as ‘a consensual act between adults, and gives focus to consent … Continue reading →

Posted in Alyssa Royse, cultural questions, cultural taboos, external locus, human condition, pornography, relationship, sexual being, sexual orientation, shame, suicide, TED, violence | Tagged Alyssa Royse, blame, bullying, counselling exeter, Don't ask don't tell, external locus, guilt, homophobia, LGBT, marginalisation, marginalization, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pornography, sexual being, sexual orientation, sexual relationship, sexual shame, sexuality, shame, suicide, TED, TEDx, TEDxRainier | Leave a comment

Laci Green on Sexual Objectification

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Thanks Monica, for your post and link to Laci on You Tube. Liking what Laci has to say on this important and relevant theme, about the embedded sexual objectification (especially of women) that runs through our cultures, and how harmful … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, external locus, Gender & culture, Laci Green, Monica Cassani, objectification, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, pornography, research evidence, sexual being, sexual violence | Tagged consciousness, counselling exeter, cultural disconnection, disconnection, gender and culture, gender bias, Laci Green, Monica Cassani, objectification, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person-centred, rape culture, sexism, sexist, sexual being, sexual objectification, sexual relationship, sexuality | Leave a comment

Madiha Bhatti on the harm perpetuated/done by songs that objectify

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Powerful piece by Madiha on her response to song lyrics that objectify, the cultural gender issues wrapped up in this, and the harm done to all of us. Thanks to Ali for drawing our attention to this. Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading →

Posted in core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, empowerment, Gender & culture, human condition, identity, perception, physical being, relationship, self esteem, sexual being, values & principles | Tagged counselling exeter, disconnection, gender, Madiha Bhatti, objectification, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, separation, sexual being, sexual relationship, sexuality | Leave a comment

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