Back into the rhythm of school and work
Now we're into September, families country-wide will be back into the rhythm of school and working weeks after the different pace of the...
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Fe Robinson
Aug 19, 20222 min read
On difficult life circumstances
Sometimes life circumstances become very difficult in a way that is not going to quickly resolve itself. I'm thinking of situations like...
Fe Robinson
Aug 12, 20222 min read
The nature of psychotherapy
I’m deeply reflective at the moment about the interactive dance that is a therapeutic relationship. Clients come, bringing with them...
Fe Robinson
Aug 3, 20222 min read
Exploring your felt experience
Our relationship with our self is the most important one we work on in psychotherapy, given our self-relations inform all of our...
Fe Robinson
Jul 22, 20222 min read
We feel more than one thing at once
I wanted to reflect today on the nature of feeling, which is understandably a recurrent and important theme in therapeutic work. It’s a...
Fe Robinson
Jul 9, 20222 min read
The regulation of rhythm
For therapeutic work to be successful, clients need to be feeling regulated, in other words they need to be calm and relaxed, so that...
Fe Robinson
Jul 9, 20223 min read
Staying with life even when the flowers don't yet bloom
When I planted my new garden last year, I put a row of floribunda rose bushes along the back fence, anticipating by this year I would be...
Fe Robinson
Jul 1, 20222 min read
The Resilience Impact of Developmental Trauma
The difference between Trauma and Developmental Trauma is one that I often find myself explaining to clients. We can be traumatized by a...
Fe Robinson
Jun 17, 20222 min read
Healing and recognising your wholeness
“Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive inaction. It means having the courage to...
Fe Robinson
Jun 10, 20222 min read
The benefits of being in nature
Out walking a few weeks ago at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire, my companion wished the trees could tell us the stories of all they...
Fe Robinson
Jun 10, 20222 min read
Meaningful metaphors
I have a gnarled old piece of wood that sits on my desk in my therapy room. I picked it up years ago in some woodland near Durham, I...
Fe Robinson
May 31, 20222 min read
Don't abandon yourself, ever
When I heard the phrase ‘don’t abandon yourself’ recently, it resonated deeply. It struck me as I pondered that it’s easy sometimes to...
Fe Robinson
May 31, 20222 min read
Finding glimmers
It’s a stressful time at the moment. We are freshly out of two years of pandemic restrictions, there is war in Europe, and families'...
Fe Robinson
May 20, 20221 min read
Letting Go
I recently came across a cracking set of questions about letting go. If you’ve a sense of it being time to reflect on what energises you...
Fe Robinson
May 20, 20222 min read
May all that enters pass through to ground
I’ve been using this affirmation of late to remind myself that whatever it is that I am experiencing is not ‘mine’ and it’s not stuck. ...
Fe Robinson
May 13, 20222 min read
Recharging yourself
A dear friend asked me recently how I recharge myself. It says something about where my mind was in that moment that I really had to...
Fe Robinson
Apr 29, 20222 min read
People Pleasing - the Fawn Trauma Response
In my reading lately about Trauma and our responses to it, I’ve been drawn to noticing the fawn response, which is not talked about so...
Fe Robinson
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Knowing your full worth
I had an interaction with a former colleague a short while ago which was a great reminder of the importance of knowing my worth. We had...
Fe Robinson
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Distress is not always about what IS happening...
It seems natural to be distressed when something awful has happened. A death. A traffic accident. Abuse. Faced with situations like...
Fe Robinson
Feb 12, 20222 min read
Real trumps polite!
I often say I like contact with other people to be real. A few weeks ago, someone curiously asked, what does real mean to me? It was an...
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