The transformative effects of pregnancy
It seems a good time to write a little about the effects of pregnancy and the relationship to mental health
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Fe Robinson
May 242 min read
Spirituality as connection
Spirituality is about connection When I meet new clients, as part of our introductory exploration I always ask about spiritual and...
Fe Robinson
May 101 min read
Enacting your heart's desire
Your heart’s desire lights you up in your body. It comes from inside. It connects you to your purpose in the world. Powerful words,...
Fe Robinson
Apr 291 min read
Space matters
Space matters, and how we treat it matters too. The care we show for the things around us reflects the care we have for ourselves. Our...
Fe Robinson
Apr 182 min read
On feeling enough
Do you feel you are good enough? Adequate? Sufficient? Acceptable and loveable as you are? If you are not feeling enough, you are not...
Fe Robinson
Apr 31 min read
Wired for connection
Extending trust can be a risky business, and it’s often worth it. We have a choice with trust, we can grant it, or we can wait until...
Fe Robinson
Apr 32 min read
Emotions are OK
Uncomfortable conversations are OK. Emotions are OK. Real matters. I wrote these three notes to myself a few days ago to remind me that I...
Fe Robinson
Mar 252 min read
The meaning you make depends on the context
I’ve been exploring recently the reality that the meaning we make of things always depends on the context. We can be quite certain of...
Fe Robinson
Mar 152 min read
The Fawn Trauma Response
In my reading about Trauma and our responses to it, I’ve been drawn to noticing the fawn response, which is not talked about so much as...
Fe Robinson
Mar 92 min read
Learning from the past
Every life experience you have had has brought you to now, shaping who and how you are. However wonderful or difficult, those...
Fe Robinson
Mar 92 min read
Reflections on psychotherapy
I’ve recently submitted my 5-year re-accreditation to UKCP, the professional body for psychotherapists in the UK. I was a touch nervous,...
Fe Robinson
Feb 281 min read
Happy 29th February!
The 29th February comes around only once every four years, so it seems a day worth marking. It’s a quirk of the calendar that for most...
Fe Robinson
Feb 211 min read
Affirming yourself
Going through some old files recently, I happened upon this verse./ I first heard it decades ago from a colleague, whose daughter had...
Fe Robinson
Feb 22 min read
Resilience
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." I saw this quote and it made me smile, there have been many times in life when I’ve needed this kind...
Fe Robinson
Feb 23 min read
The power of uncertainty
It is an irony that so often clients come into psychotherapy hoping that I have the answers to their difficulties, when the only person...
Fe Robinson
Jan 262 min read
The power of metaphors
Metaphors are powerful. When we think of one thing in terms of another that symbolises or represents it, the resulting metaphor is...
Fe Robinson
Jan 222 min read
Healing love
“The truth is you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”...
Fe Robinson
Jan 221 min read
Cherokee Wisdom
An elderly Cherokee was imparting wisdom to his grandson about life. "There's a battle within me," he told the boy, "a fierce clash...
Fe Robinson
Jan 81 min read
The power of kindness
‘To behold all beings with the eye of compassion, and to speak kindly to them, is the meaning of tenderness…Whenever one speaks kindly to...
Fe Robinson
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Autobiography in five short chapters
I. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever...
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