Sometimes we believe that if we can make better decisions we will improve things and we forget that part of life is the muddle, the mess and the maybes. “We call this the mud season.” my friend Nancy said, when we were discussing the energy of spring. In spring we plant seeds in hope of […]
Mud Season: The muddle, the mess and the maybes Read Post »
Do you have your dreams, or do your dreams have you? Do you have your feelings or do your feelings have you? Do you have your job or does your job have you? Hold it lightly, then you can put it down when you have had enough. Miriam Grace I’m aware that sometimes we have
Pause Gently: Hold Lightly Read Post »
Often reframed as mindfulness, acceptance, focussing or compassion focused therapy, and having borrowed from buddhism, Zen, Reichian therapy, the Gestalt practice of starting where we are has retained its power for nearly 60 years, for centuries if we acknowledge that this is pre-psychoanalytic. Basic counselling training teaches counsellors how to provide a safe space: on
Here and Now: the timeless, powerful and effective Gestalt teaching Read Post »
How can we re-enter the world post-lockdown in a way that is chosen, powerful and reflective of our growth in the last year? This is the question I have been inviting supervisees, clients and most of all my Nourish & Nurture (online women’s wintering) group as we approach loosening lockdown restrictions in the UK. We
No going back: conscious re-entry and post-pandemic living Read Post »
What is Life Awakening about? And how did I come to devise and write this concept? Life Awakening began, believe it or not, during training in CBT for Trauma, when I found myself sitting at a table next to a colleague on a training day. You could call it synchronicity, being in the right place
A re-write of my 2014 blog written for Valentine’s Day. 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
Love: is it 'blind' or 'second sight'? Read Post »