I wanted to share a personal story of grieving with you because sometimes a personal story says more than just thoughts or intellectual writings. Tuesday, 25 September 2012 – a cavern full of memories (a personal grief) I’ve just come home from the cemetery, which is a beautiful large place, full of trees and peace. […]
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I saw a cartoon pinned to the noticeboard at the counselling service where I work and at first it just amused me. Then it struck me how true it is and how much we tend to cling to old behaviours that are safe and familiar – and then we’re surprised when things stay the same.
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A person, in stemming their aggressive force (where aggressive is used in the broadest sense to mean the energy that stems from passion or feeling strongly that something needs to change), kills their own life energy. Aggression is a specific kind of energy, one of the most powerful, but in our society it is often
I just watched a video about one of the most wonderful things we have: connection with others. The speaker, Brene Brown, spoke about the main things that unravel connection, and the words she used were ‘shame and fear’. To my surprise, out of nowhere it seemed, on hearing the word ‘shame’ I burst into tears.
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Giving hope versus delivering the fatal blow. “To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune a tragedy, a joy an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover a God and failure is death.” * I read this quote and it caught at my heart. I couldn’t work out
