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...
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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 20, 20221 min read
The Abyss of Trauma
My weekend poem this week is called The Abyss. I wrote it in 2011. It speaks of trauma, of the fragmentation inside that happens when...
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
May 13, 20221 min read
Maternal Mental Health Month
May is Maternal Mental Health Month, and it’s a theme that resonates with me. We tend to think of maternal mental health as being a...
Fe Robinson
May 9, 20222 min read
Tackling Loneliness this Mental Health Awareness Week
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the theme this year is loneliness. Loneliness is a theme I notice coming up a lot more in...
Fe Robinson
May 6, 20221 min read
Hacks for peak anxiety
We all have moments when anxiety is higher. When our underlying, day to day tension is high, anxiety peaks can easily become an issue. ...
Fe Robinson
May 6, 20222 min read
Full to overflowing, or full beyond capacity?
When a client tells me or shows me they are overwhelmed, what they are describing is an intense experience. For them, moving past the...
Fe Robinson
May 6, 20221 min read
Poetic Silence
Today’s poem is hot off the press, I wrote it a few weeks ago. Wishing you a weekend filled with the joy found in the spaces between…...
Fe Robinson
May 1, 20222 min read
20 minutes walking each day in May
It’s National Walking Month, and isn’t it lovely to be able to walk when and where we want this year, not subject to the restrictions we...
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 29, 20221 min read
Weekend notes
I found this poem I wrote in 2011 today, and felt moved to share it. In my recent reorganisation I have created a music and meditation...
Fe Robinson
Apr 25, 20222 min read
How comfortable are you with silence?
It is a very common occurrence for people to have a discomfort with silence. I wanted to reflect a little today on the benefits of...
Fe Robinson
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Re-gaining perspective
It's sometimes the case that we lose perspective. When times are difficult, or emotions are intense, it is easy to imagine that whatever...
Fe Robinson
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Tapping into your instinctive sense of what's right for you
Congruence matters. That sense of rightness that you feel in your body that lets you know that what you are doing is aligned with what...
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