Sue S Counselling and Supervision

Self-compassion is a gift we give to ourselves its a conscious practice of being kind, accepting and mindful of how we talk to and behaviour towards and with our self. How will you be kind to yourself today?

Sundays musical musings ....... I'm a teen of the 70s glam rock era Bowie, Lennon & Bolan .... today's post is in shared memory of those years and a friends recent passing may you always fly high Brian rest in music my friend

T REX - RIDE A WHITE SWAN HQ 1970.avi

Finding our true self is the journey of a lifetime well worth the effort😀

Trauma affects every facet of our lives and leaves our head full of psychological and emotional affects and we often struggle to cope with it all. All this can become overwhelming this is where counselling can support you to unravel the thoughts, feelings and sensations.

Sunday's musical musings .... Something a little different a Sound Bath sit back relax close your eyes and let the tones vibrate into your body and mind. Sit with yourself and rejuvenate your busy Being .... listen to the sounds all around listen to your body and needs.

Sound Healing with Crystal Bowls - Sound Bath by Michelle Berc Sound Healing with Crystal Bowls - Crystal Bowl meditation with Michelle Berc. Relax and fall deep into your own sonic universe with a crystal bowl sound med...

Another week over and Saturdays here once more, so make it relaxing, I've had a long lay in and written this poem that's the start of my day. Here's wishing each and every one of you a wonderful Saturday. I've shared today' poem I posted it on my new writers page My Poetic Past give it a like if you enjoy getting lost and beguiled in words as I do, go check it out. This one's called The encounter, making every connection matter - Sue 🩷💛

The encounter

Once upon a day
In a car aside a track
I saw a fox running
Free in plush green grass
Beholding the tapestry
Of his coat, champagne breast
copper turrets upon his head
Cardinal oranges and russet reds
Furs colours dancing, combed back
By the soft gentle breeze, as he ran
ablaze within the autumn sun rays
An elegant, majestic vision
One couldn’t take her eyes from
This stunning captivating thrill
Strong legs striding the earth
Bushy tail flowing elongating
His velvety muscular body
Glistening sunbathed in the beams
As he approached aside
Head in slow motion turned
As he caught the sent of my presence
and I the full measure of his face
His marble eyes meeting mine
Full on looking into one another
Two Beings touching, beguiling
hearts skipping a beat
As each felt the other’s poundings
In rhythmic orchestra maneuvers
And in those precious moments
Surrounded by perfect harmonising
I felt connected like blood brothers
Entwining of hearts and souls
Time seemed to stand still
For a long while and then
As if the wind caught the instance
He was gone sprinting away
As my eyes follow the vision
He took one last look back
I was left forever enthralled

Copyright My Poetic Past 17.8.24

Image courtesy of Mrs Brown at Pixabay

New blog check it out .... When we find our-self in a dark place or an emotional void has opened up that lacks meaning and feels empty. Whilst temporary we can feel high states of anxiety and not know what to do to get ourselves out of it. This blog talks about how to reinvest in yourself and how to start moving forward.

First steps -Healing the void Reinventing ourselves after an abusive or difficult childhood."If you are not where you want to be, do not quit, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits".Eric Thomas All children have the right to be free from harm and grow up in circumstances where they are safe, guided and supported to ac...

On International Left-handed Day ........ lets celebrate being different and embrace the diversity in the world. Living in a right-handed world can be difficult only if we let it be difficult embrace difference and diversity differences are beautiful.....

Why are some people left-handed? - Daniel M. Abrams View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-some-people-left-handed-daniel-m-abramsToday, about one-tenth of the world’s population are southpaws. Wh...

Today is International Left-handed day ...... Lets celebrate being different and embrace the diversity of our humanness. Being left-handed in a right-handed world has been a difficult thing to be for me. As a child especially was traumatic, my first day at school the teacher took a dislike to me just because I was left handed and told me I was sporn from the devil. Can you imagine being told that at 5 years old. I didn't really get comfortable with being left-handed until on my counselling training course when I was in my forties and the good ole process group changed my life as my left-hand was accepted by all. Now I'm out and proud and so as a left-hander I embrace all the positives like my creativity, lefties use their right brain and this is associated with holistic, non-verbal, intuitive, conceptual and imaginative processes, according to Scientific American. So sudden wonder I became a counsellor! Embrace who you are and being different is cool.

Be more Olympian practice practice practice and heal your life

Sunday's musical musing ..... Imagine all the world at peace ...... goodness knows we the people of this world need it now with all the violence and unrest around the globe. John Lennon says it all in 1971 ..... but sadly not much has changes in the form of peace we're still only at the imagining stage. Think globally act locally.

John Lennon Imagine Official video (HD) Video oficial de Imagine de john Lennon en buena definición

Saturday, Saturdaaay Saturdaaaaaaaaaaaay is here and relaaaaaaaaax Enjoy whatever you are doing today.

This week I've been rather bold and launched a new page dedicated to my poetry. I write about life, death, abuse, loss, emotions all things human, by giving voice to the voiceless creates life and meaning to the turbulent tides of time. Come join me if you like expression through creativity or like to read poetry and prose. You can catch me here https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563604867486

Food for thought ..... We can't always change a situation we find our self in we are then challenged to change our perception, out thoughts and our view of the situation.

Food for thought .......

Therapeutic tool - We can develop our journaling once we have got used to the art and established a routine of writing, we can express our emotions, thought or experience in creative writing such as a poem, a short story or you might want to get ambitious and write your memoir or an autobiography. Writing is limitless and only limited by your imagination. Whatever you write or for what reason is personal to you and for your eyes only unless you want to share with others.

HOPE

Is brave, has courage
Is my strength when all else falls
Hope is that still small voice
From deep within when all
The noise recoils
So put hope as your
Breast plate and let
Her serve you up
A healthy dose of
Promises, of things to come
Place the visions
On your horizon
and reach for them
In the hours to come
Because hope is our anchor
On the tides of uncertainty
Sailing on stormy
Rocky seas of life’s
Complexities
Hope is the sky,
the sea
the wind
the breeze
Most of all
Hope endures

© My Poetic Past SJ 2024
My photo

Journaling as a therapeutic tool is excellent for clarifying what is happening inside you and to aid with processing emotions and thoughts around life experiences. Will you be writing today? I know I will.

Food for thought - The goal is to become your authentic self all that you have the potential to be. we are love, we are soul how soulful are you going to be today? Is this even a goal you've set for yourself?

Therapeutic tool - Getting our self motivated isn't easy. With journaling its made easier, we can treat our self to a lovely notebook and special pen just for our journal to help our creativity flow. Start slow maybe just adding one word, a thought that might fleeting pass through our mind and we can capture it before its forgotten. Why not give it a go?

Sunday's musical musings .......... dedicated to all parents who have lost a child in death. Death is the enigma none of us want, when your child is taken from you in death there are no words that can take away that shock and pain. I hope this piece can support reflection upon your lost loved ones.

Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy) Max Richter: On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy)Taken from ‘The Blue Notebooks’ (2018) – new recording AVAILABLE NOW:• Standard: https://dg.lnk.to/Richter-Th...

Weekly reflections continued - Joy to Saturday ..... Another week over and I do hope you've had a productive week that included some fun. I've been watching the Olympics and been enthralled by the artistry of the synchronized diving. So much so I've written a blog about it and how it resonates with the counselling relationship. Wishing you all a peaceful day.

Olympians the beauty of relationship This week watching the Olympics I was mesmerized by the synchronised diving. What a feast for our eyes and a privilege to witness such talent, achievement and joy.Thoughts drifting through my mind as they do, I thought how much the art of the synchronised togetherness was filled with grace, harmony....

This week reflections.... We have seen tragedy and my heart goes out to all the parents of the beautiful and precious children who have died through the stabbings in Southport. Savour your loved one's, your relationships and yourself because we don't know what's around the corner for any of us. Hugs to all.

I wrote this poem some years ago for parents who have lost their children because love never dies.

This circle of Love

We sit in this circle
To continue making some sense
Of our sorrow and heartache
That will never be spent

This grief that none of us
Would wish upon another
To meet ....

Dare I even whisper?
What we all know
A circle of life complete

The shock and the pain
Causes me to be inside myself
Lost a part of me that contained
My precious you

Yet the bond we have with our
Precious ones forever to hold
Is Love ...

With love we can go forward
So the Spirit and essence of our Child
Lives on in us and through us

So as we sit in this circle
Let each of us re-member
Our precious Child
Time past becomes times present
To times future

Because the circle of love
Never dies....

May they all find peace in their hearts

We often talk about a dark pit of despair, we might find our self there through depression, anxieties, trauma, grief, or a bereavement. For me I found myself sat in the bottom of mine and to climb out I had to put in a lot of effort, tears, face my fears and climb out anyway. The transformation was/is wonderful and I know I never need to go back into a pit again. Whatever has you in the dark pick up hope and let that be your bedfellow, find your brave and courage will also join you on the climb out because your worth happiness, joy and peace ........... Rise like a Phoenix

If you wrote a letter to yourself what would it say? It used to be lovely to receive a letter in the post when post arrived before we got out of bed. What's stopping you writing yourself a letter or anyone else for that matter, it used to be an art, but now its all electronic. Here's my letter to me for today. Writing whether it be a journal, a book, a poem, a doodle, a curious paragraph or a letter big or small is very cathartic, connecting and therapeutic to our inner self. Some change isn't all its made out to be.

We often think forever as long-term time, but the only time we all have is here and now so forever is NOW not tomorrow, not in six months time because when we reach the time in six months it is still forever. So in the words of Mahatma Gandhi "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever ......... Forever is NOW live your fullest life here, now because tomorrow never comes!

Sundays musical musing ......... Grab your tissues you may need them for this one. The death of a parent can be difficult and complex. A large part of my personal healing journey has been about 'seeing' and 'accepting' my parents as equal to me as one human being to another. Rather than as authority figures not as a mother, father, daughter but equal beings struggling in life and doing our best. This song speaks to my journey ...... I'm not your daughter, your not my mother, your not my father, we were just two grown people saying goodbye. No need to forgive, no need to forget, I know your mistakes and you know mine, and while you're sleeping, I'll try to make you proud. I hope I chased your monsters away .............

James Blunt - Monsters (Official Music Video) The official music video for James Blunt - MonstersTaken from the fifth studio album 'Once Upon A Mind' released in 2019, which featured the singles, 'Cold',...

Joy to Saturday ...enjoy your day.

Ending this weeks theme on the nervous systems freeze response. I hope you've found some of it helpful and thought provoking and have a little more insight into what your individual response might be. If you'd like to have some support around your emotional responses and what makes you tick give me a call.

Are you Freezing? Do you know your response to your threat and protect system? It helps us to understand how we may react and respond personally in a situation that is threatening, dangerous or uncomfortable for us, then we will know what to do.Responses are known as the Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn response to distress....