Pause Gently: Hold Lightly

Do you have your dreams, or do your dreams have you? Do you have your feelings or do your feelings have you? Do you have your job or does your job have you? Hold it lightly, then you can put it down when you have had enough. Miriam Grace I’m aware that sometimes we have

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Psychotherapy Without Words

Originally posted on May 24, 2012 by Miriam Grace When the tissues and structures of the body are engaged and held in stillness… In that stillness there is opportunity for change and enhanced self-awareness.  Phil Greenfield I attended Phil Greenfield’s http://www.corealignment.co.uk/ talk on Zero Balancing nine years ago. I know that I have learned and developed so much

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I thought inhibition was ‘bad’?: Therapeutic restraint as a path to the self

Avoiding and repressing feelings is ultimately not helpful. Learning to face our feelings and gaining confidence in our ability to manage them is a life skill. Therapy can help you do this if feelings are particularly tough. If you’ve experienced counselling or psychotherapy, you’ll be aware that there is an emphasis on expressing and allowing

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Here and Now: the timeless, powerful and effective Gestalt teaching

Often reframed  as mindfulness, acceptance, focussing or compassion focused therapy, and having borrowed from buddhism, Zen, Reichian therapy, the Gestalt practice of starting where we are has retained its power for nearly 60 years, for centuries if we acknowledge that this is pre-psychoanalytic. Basic counselling training teaches counsellors how to provide a safe space: on

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