Tina Rawlings Psychosynthesis Counsellor - Individuals, Couples And Groups

This vintage children's book is full of psychological wisdom

for those trying to deal with emotional flashbacks or emotional overload that can be triggered by past traumatic experiences here are some helpful ideas. Please contribute if you have any other useful ones to share
http://www.goodcounsellorhertford.co.uk/t his-is-what-to-do…/

Great advice from one who knows

In the coldest season of the year and at the end of January is often the time we start to look at the quality of our lives and relationships. Here is something I wrote recently about this. http://www.goodcounsellorhertford.co.uk/r elationship-diffi…/

More proof that horses can help us to heal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCzXbsGAX iI The roots of addiction - discomfort with the self - explained by this short clip. Not as an excuse - many people can achieve abstinence based recovery after developing an addiction with the support of 12 step recovery programmes along with therapies - but as an understandable response to developmental trauma. Our societies need to cease demonising those who develop addictions, whilst supporting them to recover.
For help in Hertford...shire for all addictions:
https://www.livingroomherts.org/
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Another excellent men's workshop day in Hertford - here is Gary explaining about what is on offer

I found a single small and perfect toad in a garden today. When I was a child there used to be so many frogs and toads in gardens. Why not make a space for them, make an old wood pile or an open compost pile. In doing so you might feel better connected to the preciousness of life, and your own.
The quote below from D.H. Lawrence summarises beautifully, how vital it is, to our human lives, to connect with the natural world. When the individual is isolated from the whole, disco...nnected from nature and it's rhythms, mental health and well-being suffer. In a time when more than ever people have concerns about resources, ecology and global warming, each of us can experience healing by connecting with the values that seek to preserve the wonderful planet we inhabit. Love the planet and we love ourselves and one another!
"Oh what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.” D.H Lawrence
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Get back in touch with the earth, the weather and the richness and beauty of life. Get outside or do something today to help preserve the planet for tomorrow. Go without pesticides, use natural materials and recycle where you can. it all helps and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren will thank you!

Brene Brown speaks so eloquently about the corrosive effects of shame and mentions its link to addictions of all kinds. Watch her TED talks they are excellent!

There is so much value in sitting with our feelings. Of all kinds. We seem to be deeply social creatures, us human beings. So that sharing our valuable feelings with ourselves first and then another, validates and affirms us. Feelings are information. They are not always reliable, yet acknowledging them first and listening to where they come from in us, and what the message in them is, can often help. Then we can let go of them and move on. This is to avoid the possibility o...f becoming stuck inside a feeling and allowing it to take over.
I am so grateful for those who have given me the time, listened, and allowed me not to run away emotionally. A good friend with long term depression, spoke to me recently about the value of the talking therapies she has received and simply said, 'Chuck it at someone else! It really helps'.
Sometimes friends and family, as emotionally involved and however close or well-meaning, are not the best people to 'chuck it', at. This is part of the value of having an impartial, confidential and caring professional counsellor, who won't tell you what to do yet facilitates your valuable emotional processes and thinking.
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Therapy and Counselling offer an ideal space in which to look deeply at and change ourselves and our repeating patterns in relationships.

Why not consider this excellent........ 'Mindfulness for Stress' course held over eight weeks in Letchworth at Mrs Howard Hall on Saturday mornings starting 15/09/18 through until 3/11/18
For details Contact Kathy Cloherty ... 07804 851549 kathyecloherty@gmail.com
Or look for further information about the Breathworks approach at www.breathworks-mindfulness.org
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