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If you are feeling uncertain about beginning psychotherapy: Some familiar questions...
The fact that you know I am here to accept you just as you are, and listen carefully to whatever you tell me, doesn't mean I expect talking about your life to feel easy. It is usually not the case that a person in therapy feels they can simply 'tell me anything' at the beginning, in fact it is often not advisable to dive in too quickly. If something is difficult to talk about, we might turn our attention from the 'thing' or 'subject' you are trying to describe, towards why it
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Nov 19, 202525 min read


In Search of the Mythic and Magical in Devon & Cornwall
Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring. This journey was not planned as a guide, but as an encounter with the mythic and magical in Devon and Cornwall, following a sense of place rather than a fixed route. Entering the Landscape - The Power Of Dartmoor The granite Tors of Dartmoor. I found these places profoundly strange and powerful, with the unusual forms of rock that occupy the
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May 11, 20255 min read


Crossing The Unknown Sea - Work As A Pilgrimage Of Identity, David Whyte
As you can see from the condition of this book, it has lived a life. A sign of its importance to me during the past decade, and no doubt beyond. In Crossing the Unknown Sea, David Whyte is drawing us towards a deeper and lasting shift in how we attend to our inner world of desires and dreams for a life well-lived, face the world and its demands, and truly engage in the conversational nature of reality . Pretending To Be Alive "We may do the same work and do it well, but we ma
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May 5, 20254 min read
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