You may feel that having traditional counselling sat in two chairs in a room is not for you. Perhaps you would prefer to be walking outdoors in nature, through woodland and open spaces, or being …
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A conversation in the Dwelling Place of the Soul
This Autumn I’ve embarked on training as an ecotherapist with Natural Academy, having completed the Foundation Year in the Summer. It’s an applied ecopsychology model and deeply resonates with the place I find myself in …
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Winter: connecting with the season
Winter is the season that invites us, if we pay attention to it's call, to rest, reflect and renew ourselves.
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Finding our place in the world
I find that I am often reflective at the end of a year. Despite the sometimes overwhelming narratives of western culture in December that we must prepare for Christmas, spend money, see people, indulge, I …
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Saying yes to you: journaling prompts
Saying ‘No’ to others is saying ‘Yes’ to yourself. Does this statement resonate for you? If it does, it might be a helpful affirmation to hold in mind when you are tempted to do something …
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Direction
Life is not a chain of events but an area, something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass. Stephen Graham I offered up this quote as …
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Women’s writing circle from January 2022
New evening sessions starting Thursday January 20th The women’s writing circle is a place where we explore writing as a wellbeing-enhancing activity in the company of other women. We meet fortnightly for during school term …
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Writing for self-care retreat 2021: Rest, Reflect, Restore
In October 2021, I co-facilitated a writing for self-care retreat with my colleague and friend, Jane Willis. Together with a small group of arts, health and wellbeing practitioners we gathered in a beautiful farmhouse in …
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Are you struggling following a bereavement?
You might find it helpful to know that grieving is not just feeling sad. A lot can happen to you physically as well as mentally when someone dies, a relationship ends, you lose your job …
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Places still available on women’s writing circles
I still have some spaces left in both the Friday and Thursday Women’s Writing Circles. A fortnightly writing for wellbeing group for women – six sessions of expressive and creative writing in connection with other …
Rachel Hawkins-Crockford 