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I read this beautiful piece when resting with David Whyte’s River Flow, and wanted to share it. For me it gives such a sense of the...

It’s National Stress Awareness Day today. Stress is the result when the demands placed on you outstrip your inner resources and ability...

This stress awareness week, take a moment to notice what it is that makes life joyful. It’s easy to think it’s the big stuff, you’ll...

Sometimes I’m a cloud. Sometimes a mountain or a stone. Sometimes I’m a river, a small seed or a great tree. But I am always me. Kate Coombs

We are all informed by what we believe we know. How could we not be? Our experiences, knowledge and perspective provide a frame through...

Tomorrow’s an egg that hasn’t hatched. Yesterday is a bird that has flown. But today is real. Here now, this minute, the true wings....

In relational dynamics, there is much focus on narcissists and the difficulties they cause. What is often missed is that in...

I've had an interesting few weeks being reminded of how inter-dependent people are. I moved house. Depending on your previous moving...

In therapeutic work, therapists have the privilege of working with people over a period of time, and potentially of coming to know their...

Sometimes things are best left. There might be things you want to say, or things you’d like to do, that on reflection it just seems best...

Stephen Gilligan, the Self-relations psychotherapist, was one of my teachers when I trained as a psychotherapist. His way of being, and...

Perverse as it may sound, I enjoy working with clients who have experienced trauma. I don’t enjoy that people get traumatized or that...

I’ve really been noticing of late the impact my state of being has on on the people around me. Not just at work, but in family life too....

I often blog on the subject of bodymind, and my perception that body and mind are not two different things. I see them as metaphorical,...

October is Black history month. While it seems right that we give specific focus to this, I wonder why it is we have only one month in...

In latin, the word for fear is angustiae, and it means a narrowing. I learned this recently, reading Stephen Fry’s excellent Mythos, a...

Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light. Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach...

The last few weeks have been very interesting personally, as I have lived through the disruption of selling a home and moving in with...

Oftentimes people coming to psychotherapy report that they are broken. Or inadequate. Or not enough. Or that something is missing. ...

Above the clouds lies serenity Pure blue Clear skies Endless sunshine No matter what weather is below Thunder rain, howling winds Above...