Creative Counselling: Neutralising Personality Disorders
Have you ever been around someone who rubs people up the wrong way? Maybe your boss is a control freak or your mother-in-law needs constant attention? If so, then it could be that you’re dealing with someone who has a personality disorder. Read on for tips and tricks for identifying and neutralising the negative effect […]
A Herbalist View on Death, with The Seed Sistas
Our lives can be sweet precisely because they are finite. The sands of time are moving through the hour glass continuously, we are all moving towards dying. Yet living under the pressure of Grandfather Time, we are often too busy to consider our place within the cycle of life and death. “Why are we here?”, […]
How Madness Feels: An excerpt from Into The Woods and Out Again by Dina Glouberman
1971 was the year I went mad and spent three months on a psychiatric ward. 1978 was the year I had a spiritual awakening. The first was a breakdown, and the second a breakthrough. But how do you tell the difference between a breakdown and a breakthrough, between madness and miracles, when both involve stepping […]
Meditating with Marigolds: Uses and Guides to the Plant
Today, on a grey late October morning, feeling unsettled by a light and erratic north wind, I set out to gather Marigolds to inspire the day’s writing. I’ve invited them close to me for the last month, every day bringing them into my meditations. A curious thing seems to happen after a couple of weeks […]
What is the Difference Between Self-Care and Self-Love?
Self-love. What does that mean to you? Taking long baths, painting your nails, having a massage? While these things make you feel better, there’s much more to it… Self-love means being kind to yourself instead of undermining yourself with negative self-talk, berating and belittling yourself, especially when things go wrong. Self-love is also about […]
Answering The Call of The Divine Huntress
There are times in all our lives when we feel a calling; a pull to stretch ourselves a little further, and seek the unknown, learn a new skill, be brave, go for adventure or embark on a quest for our hearts desire. The call of the Divine Huntress is one we all hear from time […]
The Power of Yoga in Times of Personal Crisis
For thousands of years, yoga has been a deep philosophy of life, a way of living skilfully. Most people today come to yoga through yoga poses, called asana, like “Downward Facing Dog” or the “Warrior”. Yoga poses are intended to unite body and breath, the physical and the internal, forming a bridge between our posture […]
Should I Worry About Pulling The Hanged Man Card?
When The Hanged Man, Death, The Tower or The Devil appear in a Tarot reading, people are often fearful of their implications. Yet there’s no need for dismay. These major arcana cards show us how we should move forward… […]
Creative Counselling: Pampering as Self-Care
Counsellors are duty bound by their profession to set a good example, in much the same way as doctors. We are expected by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (or BACP) to uphold certain standards in all of our work with clients. This includes standards of dress and hygiene and we are expected to […]
Communication from Angels: What it Means When You Keep Seeing the Same Numbers
You wake up in the middle of the night and look at your alarm clock which is flashing brightly with the numbers 2:22. You grab a coffee in the morning, and as you look down at the receipt you see that it cost you £2.22. You are sitting in traffic, and your wandering eye is […]