Wednesday Breakfast with Miriam Blog – with Phil Greenfield

Wednesday Breakfast with Miriam Blog – with Phil Greenfield Hi today is my ‘Wednesday Breakfast with Miriam Blog’ and I’m chatting with Phil Greenfield about Zero Balancing and his book….‘Unravelling – Letting Go, Getting Well’ Good morning Phil, what are you eating for breakfast and what is your view as you eat? Hi Miriam. I’m sitting at home in […]

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Seeing through eyes of love

I’m not a cynic and today is a good day to express my inner romantic and reflect on falling in love… I was with a client a few weeks ago discussing her relationship problems with her partner and we were remembering the stage in her relationship of falling in love and questioning why this phase

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Great Expectations

Gestalt ‘Prayer’ I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
 And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
 You are you, and I am I,
 and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.
 If not, it

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The Wisdom of Dreams

I love working with my own dreams and with client dreams. In Gestalt therapy we are encouraged to see all aspects of  the dream as part of the self. When we describe our dreams we are encouraged to connect with it using the present tense. I had that frustrating experience of knowing I had had

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Route Finding

I am on a little adventure, exploring the Forest of Dean this week. It was while I was making friends with a borrowed Sat Nav on the journey, that I considered the ideas of trust of self, trust of authority and route finding. Initially I borrowed the Sat Nav as reassurance, as company, as protection

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Perfectly Being

The greatest loss, that of oneself, may pass unnoticed. Kierkegaard Last time, I mentioned Transactional Analysis and the idea of “I’m not OK, You’re OK” and “I’m OK, You’re not OK”. I would like to consider what we have to gain from the “I’m OK, You’re OK” position. I left yesterday’s post with a thought

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Being Perfect

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.  The Talmud I have been aware this week of how much pressure some people put on themselves to be perfect. How dependent we can be at times on the approval of others. We might engage in external behaviours (such as people

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Smell the Roses

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ― Mary Oliver I was walking along a busy city street last week, and I was busy myself, inside my head, when the scent of roses stopped me in my tracks and I had to reverse my steps to find the rose bush

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Without Judgment

Without judgment, take a minute to listen and to know. What do you feel right now? Notice your body, your tensions, where you hold. Bring you attention to your energy, your creative life force, is it lively or flat? There is no right or wrong answer, no way you ‘should’ be, just the truth of

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