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Sometimes it is easy to lose trust in what you are experiencing. It may be that someone else somehow undermines you, convincing you that...

"I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding...

Walk as tall as the trees Live as strong as the mountains Be as gentle as the spring winds Keep the warmth of the summer sun in your...

When people come into therapy to talk about relationship problems, they often feel that there must be something wrong with them. This is...

There are two key questions that many clients want to address when they come for an initial session of psychotherapy, and they are...

I’ve had the pleasure of making some new connections personally and professionally in recent weeks, which has felt good after the...

When we think of being in danger, the fight/flight response is perhaps the response that most readily comes to mind. Our sympathetic...

I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop recently with some Counselling degree students at Bishop Auckland College. I went to talk to...

Often, what brings clients into therapy is a reticence to experience their feelings. This can show up in all sorts of ways, in low mood...

The opposite of repression and suppression is not expression, its awareness. I heard Andrew Seubert make this excellent observation in a...

I was invited recently to be playful with my elbows, to explore what it’s like to really put them out and take up some space. I confess...

It seems to me we are not one, solid, unchanging being, but rather a deeply interconnected web of life from which consciousness arises. ...

The festival of Diwali is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists, for each representing something slightly different. ...

We all need some pressure in our lives, it can be stimulating and energising, and help us achieve more than we would if we were never...

“We don’t perceive the world as it is, we perceive it as it is useful for us to do so.” Anil Seth in Being You Seth’s recent exploration...

“Adaptability does not prioritize drastic change over fierce rigidity. Adaptability is the conversation within us between stability and...

“You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else!” I saw this quote online and it made me smile, I’m not...

A consistent theme bringing couples into couples counselling is the loss of their sense of togetherness, a loss of intimacy. I often...

I was listening to Andrew Seubert recently talking about The Courage To Feel. I liked the way he described feelings, as embodied...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and trauma responses, are often thought of as being dramatic and invasive. We most often think of people...