How to move forward and take positive action
This article first appeared in the Autumn edition of All About Malvern. In our small town, nestled safely into the side of these ancient hills, the sun is shini...
Author: Kaspa
What’s the point of empathy?
This morning as I took my usual morning walk around the garden I heard a bird call that I didn’t recognise. I looked up and there was a female blackbird, with i...
Everything can become an offering
Late afternoon on Friday. The sun had already dipped behind the hills leaving the temple and garden in shadow, but the wide Severn valley and the distant hills ...
Giving up on pefection
I don’t know why I was thinking about perfection. Perhaps it was after spending three hours trying to get a new template for this website to work, before giving...
Paying attention to a world that is falling apart
The clouds are mostly just grey today; a flat sky that only gives up its colour and texture under close examination. I woke up at eight, to the sound of our old...
Fragile and Uncertain Creatures
On the top floor of the temple is a long, high ceilinged hallway between the residents bedrooms. The carpet is a mottled beige, worn down the centre. Dim lightb...
Word of the year 2017
I walked from my office, down the long dark hallway, up the stairs, past the big window that looks over the car-park, answered the door, signed for the parcel, ...
Finding Peace
I had been searching for quiet. The hills are a gift. I puffed up the muddy paths. The hills were covered in rust bracken, wet brown leaves, rabbit nibbled gras...
Ten things you can get from therapy
1. Better relationships As you start to learn what makes you tick, what makes others tick, and what your triggers are, it becomes easier to connect with others ...
Turning away from anxiety and depression
We usually come to therapy because we are unhappy, or dissatisfied; because we want to change. Often, what we want to change from is feeling anxious or depresse...