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Rachel Hawkins-Crockford

Counselling and Writing for Well Being Services based in Westbury On Trym, Bristol

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  • Can I wish you a “Happy New Year” this year?

    Posted by keylifetherapy on January 5, 2021

    I had been starting my emails with a bold “Happy New Year!” but it was not ringing true. I’ve had to stop today. It felt ironic, or painful, or inappropriate. Here in the UK we …

    connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, grief and loss, mental health awareness, nature, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • Pause

    Posted by keylifetherapy on December 18, 2020

    Perhaps it is because its the end of the year, a really difficult year, that I find myself even more reflective than usual. And as I was reading an article about the menopause today, I …

    connection, Counselling, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, self-care
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  • Start the Year Write – wellbeing workshop

    Posted by keylifetherapy on December 7, 2020December 1, 2020

    If you’d like to do something a little different from your annual New Year’s resolutions list, why not book a place on this workshop. We’ll spend one and a half hours together, experiencing some writing …

    connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, self-care, wellbeing, workshops, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • Micro-habits

    Posted by keylifetherapy on November 26, 2020

    This month I’ve renewed an old habit that I had let lapse a little lately, starting my working day with a ten minute meditation practice. I have a subscription to one of the many great apps out there …

    Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, mental health awareness, self-care, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • How writing helps us to get unstuck

    Posted by keylifetherapy on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020

    Journaling and expressive writing, alongside counselling, can help us to begin to come unstuck. Finding the right words to express our feelings about what has happened to us … the more we write, the freer we feel.

    Counselling, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Focus, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • Mental health awareness week and the importance of connection

    Posted by keylifetherapy on May 18, 2020April 9, 2020

    It’s mental heath awareness week this week and this year the Mental Health Foundation is promoting the theme of kindness. Kindness has been such a big part of the community response to the coronavirus pandemic …

    Bristol, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, mental health awareness, self-care, wellbeing, womens circle, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • Things you could do if you can’t hold or attend a funeral right now

    Posted by keylifetherapy on May 4, 2020

    One of the painful things about experiencing a bereavement right now is that you cannot get together with other people and mourn your loss or honour someone’s life and death in the way you might …

    bereavement, Bristol, connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, grief and loss, self-care, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • Can you reach out to someone?

    Posted by keylifetherapy on May 1, 2020

    What are your thoughts on this day – the first of May 2020? How are you feeling? Where do you find yourself as you sit reading this post? As I sit writing it, I am very …

    connection, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, mental health awareness, self-care, wellbeing, Writing for Wellbeing
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  • Sowing seeds for the future

    Posted by keylifetherapy on April 27, 2020May 1, 2020

    Yesterday I walked through the wood behind my house. I’m not even sure what this particular wood is called, it’s tucked on a ridge between rows of suburban streets and you have to know its …

    Bristol, nature, self-care, wellbeing
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  • Women’s writing circle

    Posted by keylifetherapy on April 20, 2020April 9, 2020

    When we went into lockdown in March this year, I was days away from starting a women’s writing circle in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. It was to be a space where women could gather together to talk …

    Bristol, Focus, self-care, wellbeing, womens circle, workshops, Writing for Wellbeing
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