Using your strengths to increase vitality
It's more years since I care to remember since I first came across the idea of Character Strengths, back then I was working in the...
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Fe Robinson
Jan 21, 20221 min read
National Hug Day!
I could get all sciency and talk about 20 seconds of physical contact causing the participants to release oxytocin (the love hormone),...
Fe Robinson
Jan 1, 20222 min read
When the lights go out
Here we are, another festive season over, and the winter ahead of us. The Christmas lights are coming down. For many people the coming...
Fe Robinson
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Trauma symptoms are about survival
“Trauma represents a profound compression of “survival” energy, energy that has not been able to complete its meaningful course of...
Fe Robinson
Dec 21, 20212 min read
What's good to do?
Today I wanted to reflect on the concept of ecology, which is used in neuro-linguistic programming to check out the congruence of a...
Fe Robinson
Dec 9, 20211 min read
Mid-winter blues
If you have the mid-winter blues this article I helped #UKCP with may be of interest. https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/how-to-cope-w...
Fe Robinson
Dec 9, 20211 min read
Preparing for 2022
As you prepare for 2022, it’s a good time to reflect on both the year past and the year to come. Here’s an article I wrote for #UKCP...
Fe Robinson
Dec 1, 20211 min read
Trust yourself
Sometimes it is easy to lose trust in what you are experiencing. It may be that someone else somehow undermines you, convincing you that...
Fe Robinson
Nov 19, 20212 min read
What's your life story?
I’ve had the pleasure of making some new connections personally and professionally in recent weeks, which has felt good after the...
Fe Robinson
Nov 19, 20212 min read
Therapy activates your social engagement system
When we think of being in danger, the fight/flight response is perhaps the response that most readily comes to mind. Our sympathetic...
Fe Robinson
Nov 13, 20212 min read
The ABCD of Encountering Emotions
Often, what brings clients into therapy is a reticence to experience their feelings. This can show up in all sorts of ways, in low mood...
Fe Robinson
Nov 5, 20212 min read
Get your elbows out!
I was invited recently to be playful with my elbows, to explore what it’s like to really put them out and take up some space. I confess...
Fe Robinson
Nov 5, 20212 min read
The bridge that breath provides
It seems to me we are not one, solid, unchanging being, but rather a deeply interconnected web of life from which consciousness arises. ...
Fe Robinson
Nov 3, 20212 min read
National Stress Awareness Day
We all need some pressure in our lives, it can be stimulating and energising, and help us achieve more than we would if we were never...
Fe Robinson
Oct 22, 20212 min read
Grounded adaptation
“Adaptability does not prioritize drastic change over fierce rigidity. Adaptability is the conversation within us between stability and...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20212 min read
Re-finding your intimate connection
A consistent theme bringing couples into couples counselling is the loss of their sense of togetherness, a loss of intimacy. I often...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Having the courage to feel
I was listening to Andrew Seubert recently talking about The Courage To Feel. I liked the way he described feelings, as embodied...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20212 min read
Trauma effects vary
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and trauma responses, are often thought of as being dramatic and invasive. We most often think of people...
Fe Robinson
Oct 8, 20213 min read
Being with your thoughts and feelings, not being them
As I read more of Anil Seth’s book Being You, I reflect more and more on the way we are continually making sense of what happens to us,...
Fe Robinson
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Periodic newsletters
Every now and again I put together a short digest of the posts that have seemed to resonate with people, and send it out to my subscriber...
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