Author: Kaspa
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Goal-less therapy ~ goal-less life
We’ve just adopted new puppy. She’s been home for nine days and when she first arrived she spent her time either being completely awake and very lively, or completely conked out. She’s desperately cute, and we’re sleep deprived. As anyone who has a new puppy knows, when they come home what used to be ordinary…
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The power of working outside
“When I see how the strawberry plants have grown and spread themselves all across the veg. patch, I am reminded that the Chinese character for nature means something like ‘self-managing’. The natural world manages just fine without us. Our minds are often like this too – when we relax, the healing process begins to unfold…
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Working with Internal Family Systems
I’ve written an article about IFS that’s been published on the Counselling Directory website. Check it out here: Working with Internal Family Systems
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Is online therapy for me?
I’ve just published a new article on the counselling directory website: is online therapy for me?
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Asking for help
Change for the better rarely comes from within. Left to our own devices we tend to go around in circles, thinking the same old thoughts, repeating the same old actions. We may be so stuck in these loops that we just think, “This is who I am.” Thankfully we don’t exist in isolation, otherwise we’d…
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To sit in a place
In preparation for the Wild Therapy training I am taking this year, we have been invited to find an outside place, and to sit in it for ten to fifteen minutes every day. Our temple – my home – sits halfway up the Malvern Hills. Our garden is tiered. On the top tier is our…
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We all have many inner voices
We all have different parts. There’s a part that wants to go to work, and a part that wants to stay in bed. There’s a part that wants that extra donut, and a part that doesn’t, and maybe a part that is already regretting having the first one. We have conversations with ourselves just like…
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Coming out as a Body Psychotherapist
Over the last few weeks, until just recently, I’ve been experiencing some nervousness. Towards the end of last year I started getting ready to advertise as a body psychotherapist. Why the nerves? There aren’t so many body psychotherapists around. Is it a strange thing to do, I wondered? Will people still want to come and…
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Surviving Christmas and the New Year
We are moving through the longest nights. What happens at this time of year? In the run up to the longest night we put up our decorations and lights, go to parties and come together as happy families at Christmas time. Or we see others doing that and our own attempt to hold off the…
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Autumn and Winter Well-being
This month I was asked to write about coping with the disappearing sun, for our local magazine All About Malvern. This is the article I wrote: Worcester has disappeared into the mist that is sitting in the Severn Valley. The garden is damp from a wave of rain that passed over the hills. Soon, the…