Elena Counselling, Massage, and Complementary Therapies

Unresolved trauma can lead to cycles of repeating or suppressing painful experiences. Healing and learning from your experience allows you to prevent your past from dictating your future. In this way you can stop your past from
controlling your life and lead a more meaningful existence in the present.

Great self-care tips here!

Don't forget to take care of YOU. 💜 https://wb.md/3PndcP5

Making a memory box is a nice way of remembering a loved one who has died, you can place your fave photos of them in it, cards and/or letters to them or from them, or special items or comfort objects that help you remember then fondly with a smile. It is a nice way of honouring their memory...

One needs to become more aware of the ways we slip into the past to be able to identify our own emotional baggage and proceed to unpack it putting it where it belongs: “We do not eliminate transference; we decant it. We do not kill it as David killed Goliath. We wrestle with it respectfully as did Jacob with the angel, until it yields its blessing. The blessing is the revelation of what we missed or lost and the grace to grieve it rather than transfer it. We feel a momentum to mourn all those who did not make time for us, to let go of their importance to us, to go on with life no longer determined or unduly influenced by what others choose to do. We then find satisfying sources of need-fulfillment in ourselves and in other humans who can be there for us most of the time and not there sometimes. And in a yes to that, we have all we need.”
, by David Richo, 'When the past is present, healing the emotional wounds that sabotage our relationships'

The best love you can embrace and practise is self-love, today and always! Happy Valentines whether single or coupled up! 💝

Children cannot communicate and voice their feelings in the same way as an adult, but through creative play they can find an oulet to express difficult emotions.

Let people be their genuine authentic self…in therapy we encourage to be themselves, with the good and the bad, without any judgement, so that they can be empowered to change and drop what no longer serves them..

Realising the value of self care is one thing, but actually devoting some time to yourself is another. Self care is essential to your mental, physical and emotional wellbeing and to function well day-to day. It involves taking deliberate actions to care for oneself, recharge, and maintain a healthy and balanced life. When was the last time you did this?

Sometimes things happen to us in life or we experience difficulties with others, which we don't know how to navigate or solve by ourselves and we need support. With counselling, as a therapist I am an external party not involved in the issue who can offer empathy, listen without judgement, and adapt to your individual needs to accompany you in your own journey of self-healing and discovery. Hopefully then, you can get a new understanding about your situation and think about it from a different perspective that allows you to take some positive steps and make important changes that help you resolve the situation and/or make peace with it.

Happy 2024! May the new year bring all the peace of mind of mind you need and help you find 'your missing piece of the puzzle': this is an important time of reflection for many of us, where we set goals for the year ahead, and that may include exploring buried feelings, processing traumatic memories and/or making important changes in behaviour or theway we interact with others. If you are ready to embark in counselling Elena Counselling, Massage, and Complementary Therapies is ready to accompany you and support you along your own individual journey of self-discovery, development, and healing.

'Emotional literacy is the ability to recognise, understand, and express feelings to the right person, at the right time, in the right way' - it is important to start cultivating it in early childhood...

My little heaven on earth, where is yours?

Mental health is a universal human right, please reach out whenever you are struggling and never suffer in silence, do share as there are always people willing to listen!

'It is our bodies that tell the story of our
past, and it is also our bodies that begin
the story of our healing (Arielle Schwartz). It is important to realise that as commonly known trauma issues like flashbacks, so many of those sufferring with trauma have physical issues too, trauma symptom which they can surely feel somewhere in their bodies. These are often negative emotions trapped in the body and physical manifestations of trauma which need releasing.

Don’t forget to nurture yourself first so that you can nurture others!

Take time to support kids after traumatic events as they struggle to verbalise feelings and emotions…they still need to be held whilst hurting inside

Counselling is as much about support as about teaching coping skills

When the going gets tough...just breathe...

Sometimes a physical move is still not enough when the heart and the mind are still being held captive by the past...sometimes you have to take two steps back to move forward...

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”, Eckhart Tolle

It is important to explore and embrace different personalities so these can be accepted and integrated: "The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places." Ernest Hemingway

Counselling is a good way of getting exploring, accepting, and integrating different parts of the self!

The power of being unafraid of singlehood!

Where do you think you are at with your mental health, are you currently able to enjoy life despite the challenges you are facing? We can all struggle with things at times and that is ok but it is important you ask for help when and if things get on top of you…

Try and see the world through your kids' eyes

Note to the self: do you need exploring your unmet needs? Somr counselling therapy can help with this...

Do not underestimate the power of empathy and the positive impact on the receiving end