Having a brew this Blue Monday
Today is thought to be Blue Monday, the combination of short days, poor weather and the aftermath of the festive season with the distance...
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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 1, 20211 min read
Grief is not only about death
People are generally familiar with the idea that when someone dies, we grieve. There are many ways of describing the process grief might...
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 25, 20213 min read
My relationship is not working...what's wrong with me?!
When people come into therapy to talk about relationship problems, they often feel that there must be something wrong with them. This is...
Fe Robinson
Nov 25, 20212 min read
The two questions clients want answered up front
There are two key questions that many clients want to address when they come for an initial session of psychotherapy, and they are...
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 5, 20212 min read
Repression, supression, expression and awareness
The opposite of repression and suppression is not expression, its awareness. I heard Andrew Seubert make this excellent observation in a...
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 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 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...
Fe Robinson
Oct 1, 20212 min read
Are you up for a deep encounter?
I often blog about self-help techniques and approaches those interested can use to support their well-being and emotional health. I like...
Fe Robinson
Sep 24, 20212 min read
Do you know how the relationships in your life impact you?
I want to talk today about a simple tool you can use to increase your awareness of how the relationships in your life impact your...
Fe Robinson
Sep 17, 20212 min read
A life well lived?
Today I’ve reached the final stage of Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, that of later adulthood, which he suggested...
Fe Robinson
Sep 10, 20212 min read
Are you generating, or stagnating?
Almost at the end of my series on Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, today I am exploring the seventh stage, that of...
Fe Robinson
Sep 5, 20211 min read
Are you engaging in your life?
I was reminded recently of the contrast between feeling that I had some control over what happened to me, and of feeling as if life was...
Fe Robinson
Sep 5, 20211 min read
Is guilt a bad thing?
Sometimes clients come into therapy wanting to be absolved of guilt when they have done something they regret. Guilt is painful, and this...
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