Reclaiming Lost Parts of Self ... We are all born with an innate desire to form an attachment to our primary caregivers ... it's a survival thing! As children, we learn that the more we bend ourselves to fit in and do what others expect of us, the more likely it is that we will [...]
We lift our faces .... we feel the tears ... we feel our grief And it's because of our hearts so full of love that we feel such grief now Some say grief is a portal into the deep well of love It is our love wearing a different mask, for a time Love is [...]
I've always loved this idea that all of nature somehow has an innate sense of the approach of light, the dawn ... even in the dark! When we're not feeling good, when we're feeling flat or depressed, sick with grief or lost in any kind of loneliness or despair, it can feel like the darkness [...]
Compassion and Gestalt Therapy There is much written about growth and change that speaks to our desire to be different to how we are - to be better than we are, to be more than we are; because deep down we feel 'damaged', unworthy, left wanting somehow. But this is what I've learnt over many [...]
Why an "Opening to Grace" Healing Retreat? As an experienced Gestalt Therapist I have long held a desire to integrate Gestalt therapy with contemplative spirituality and to offer a new style of spiritual / healing Retreat. We call this new synthesis Transformational Gestalt and the main thrust of this contemplative perspective is working with embodied [...]
