Sweet darkness
I read this beautiful piece when resting with David Whyte’s River Flow, and wanted to share it. For me it gives such a sense of the...
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Fe Robinson
Nov 6, 20201 min read
National Stress Awareness Day
It’s National Stress Awareness Day today. Stress is the result when the demands placed on you outstrip your inner resources and ability...
Fe Robinson
Nov 3, 20201 min read
What makes life joyful this Stress Awareness Week?
This stress awareness week, take a moment to notice what it is that makes life joyful. It’s easy to think it’s the big stuff, you’ll...
Fe Robinson
Nov 1, 20201 min read
I am always me
Sometimes I’m a cloud. Sometimes a mountain or a stone. Sometimes I’m a river, a small seed or a great tree. But I am always me. Kate Coombs
Fe Robinson
Nov 1, 20202 min read
Do you know when to stop?
We are all informed by what we believe we know. How could we not be? Our experiences, knowledge and perspective provide a frame through...
Fe Robinson
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Today is real
Tomorrow’s an egg that hasn’t hatched. Yesterday is a bird that has flown. But today is real. Here now, this minute, the true wings....
Fe Robinson
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Every Narcissus has an Echo
In relational dynamics, there is much focus on narcissists and the difficulties they cause. What is often missed is that in...
Fe Robinson
Oct 24, 20202 min read
We can't do this alone
I've had an interesting few weeks being reminded of how inter-dependent people are. I moved house. Depending on your previous moving...
Fe Robinson
Oct 24, 20202 min read
Are you editing yourself?
In therapeutic work, therapists have the privilege of working with people over a period of time, and potentially of coming to know their...
Fe Robinson
Oct 24, 20201 min read
Are you acting from fear or wisdom?
Sometimes things are best left. There might be things you want to say, or things you’d like to do, that on reflection it just seems best...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20201 min read
Nowhere to go, no-one to please...
Stephen Gilligan, the Self-relations psychotherapist, was one of my teachers when I trained as a psychotherapist. His way of being, and...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20202 min read
Whatever's happening, its happening right now
Perverse as it may sound, I enjoy working with clients who have experienced trauma. I don’t enjoy that people get traumatized or that...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20201 min read
Bring to life what you want to see
I’ve really been noticing of late the impact my state of being has on on the people around me. Not just at work, but in family life too....
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20202 min read
The importance of physical release
I often blog on the subject of bodymind, and my perception that body and mind are not two different things. I see them as metaphorical,...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20202 min read
What have you learned this Black History Month?
October is Black history month. While it seems right that we give specific focus to this, I wonder why it is we have only one month in...
Fe Robinson
Oct 5, 20202 min read
The way fear narrows you
In latin, the word for fear is angustiae, and it means a narrowing. I learned this recently, reading Stephen Fry’s excellent Mythos, a...
Fe Robinson
Oct 5, 20201 min read
Earth Teach Me
Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light. Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach...
Fe Robinson
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Finding your grounding when the ground keeps shifting
The last few weeks have been very interesting personally, as I have lived through the disruption of selling a home and moving in with...
Fe Robinson
Oct 5, 20202 min read
Healing is about knowing you are already whole
Oftentimes people coming to psychotherapy report that they are broken. Or inadequate. Or not enough. Or that something is missing. ...
Fe Robinson
Oct 5, 20201 min read
Above the clouds
Above the clouds lies serenity Pure blue Clear skies Endless sunshine No matter what weather is below Thunder rain, howling winds Above...
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