Willow Counselling Wexford

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Happy International Women's Day 2024.🥳🤩

It’s important that we look after and nourish our relationships. When the conditions are right the relationship can flourish 🌻

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𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙖𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 💬

Notice how what’s being said is making you feel. Become familiar with any feelings of doubt, uncertainty, hesitation or confusion. Meet these feelings with self-compassion. Identify where they originate, or what/who has triggered them.

Remember that nobody has the right to make you doubt yourself. Remind yourself that it’s not you, it’s the other. Meet yourself with kindness, patience and compassion.

Only respond to the other when you feel steady and confident to do so.

Believe in and trust your own experience of what is really happening. Having a trusted someone to talk things over with is always helpful.

🌎 In a world struggling to find peace, remember to look within and connect with your own inner peace, so that you can radiated it out to a world in need.

Peace is a familiar word to all of us. Yet it is more that a word. It is a way of being that guides our way of behaving, that is reflected in our everyday actions, thoughts and feelings.

Practice cultivating peace within and radiate it out to family, friends, community and beyond.

Peace begins with each of us ☮️

ℹ🌿SHRINKING THE INNER CRITIC IN COMPLEX PTSD | BY PETE WALKER

In my work with clients repetitively traumatized in childhood, I am continuously struck by how frequently the various thought processes of the inner critic trigger them into overwhelming emotional flashbacks.

This is because the PTSD-derived inner critic weds shame and self-hate about imperfection to fear of abandonment, and mercilessly drive the psyche with the entwined serpents of perfectionism and endangerment.

Recovering individuals must learn to recognize, confront and disidentify from the many inner critic processes that tumble them back in emotional time to the awful feelings of overwhelming fear, self-hate, hopelessness and self-disgust that were part and parcel of their original childhood abandonment.

READ ARTICLE HERE ⬇️
http://pete-walker.com/shrinkingInnerCritic.htm

IMAGE by Take a look at Beth Wilson ():

“𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥, 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.”

- J. Krishnamurti


Relationship is at the heart of the counselling experience here at Willow Counselling Wexford. 🌳

Coming to know how we show up in any relationship is a transformative journey for every one of us.

Appreciating the value of respectful presence and acceptance in our relational experiences is key to healthy and wholesome relationships.

Our inner sensations are always communicating to us and when we listen with kindness we can hear what the need is and how to respond appropriately 🧠

Another gem from ❤️

Some April self-care tips 👇🌷

(Source: Positively Present)

Kindness and gentleness are such important qualities we can all cultivate and practice in ourselves every day. Just invite them in and see what happens.

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I’ve always wanted, very much, to be that woman.
The old one, with the hair like silver that seems to radiate its very own source of light.
The one with the knowing smile that hints at humour ever present and a life that’s been full of belly laughter.
The woman with the deep lines in her weathered skin, lines etched out by adventure, by joy, by fear and by growth.
I imagined how I’d float rather than walk because I no longer bear the weight of the world on my shoulders and I marvelled at how my days would be full to the brim with resting and noticing the world around me.
I would not care for thoughts of guilt because by then I would have learned that resting is doing, and is very important indeed.
There I would be reading, gardening, eating food I had grown and passing my little nuggets of wisdom down, to anyone who wanted to listen.
The contented crone.
The final phase of the journey of womanity.
No chasing youth for me,
I will be languishing, loudly, in the joy of my age and my luck at having got so far.

I’ve always wanted, very much, to be that woman.
Join me, if you like.

Donna Ashworth

From my poetry book ‘LIFE’
UK: https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz
US: https://a.co/d/4EvMqqA

Art by the amazing Jonas Peterson

A very general outline on what self-care can look like! The great thing about self-care is that it centers on YOU and because of that, every person's self-care is unique.

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So true!

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To all who struggle to trust their feelings or who have been conditioned to believe that their feelings are not important, please know that your feelings matter and it’s ok to trust them.