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
The diversity of relationships
Not so long ago, the thought of 'living in sin' as a stable family unit, of same sex marriages, of gay couples raising children or of...
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 19, 20221 min read
The sacred mundane
I love meditating in company, I experience such a resonance in the collective energy, just remembering brings tingles and smiles. Here’s...
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 5, 20221 min read
Wild Witch
Here’s a poetic offering for the weekend, about the insights that can come from therapeutic work and the way just one revelation...
Fe Robinson
Aug 3, 20222 min read
On feeling out of sync
I watched Hannah Gadesby’s show Douglas recently, and along with the many, many laughs she provoked, she spoke of a truth that resonated...
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 22, 20223 min read
Clearing clogged energy for well-being
I've been writing recently about regulating your nervous system to be grounded and calm to give yourself the flexibility to feel and...
Fe Robinson
Jul 15, 20221 min read
A weekend thought
“Be humble because you are made of earth Be noble, for you are made of stars" Serbian Proverb As above, so below. I love this proverb...
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 9, 20222 min read
Calming your nervous system
One of the key jobs of therapeutic work is to help clients to be able to calm their nervous system so that their default way of being...
Fe Robinson
Jul 9, 20221 min read
A poem about resilience
look at you. still standing after being knocked down and thrown out. look at you. still growing after being picked and plucked and...
Fe Robinson
Jul 9, 20222 min read
Increasing vagal tone for a calmer life
Today I wanted to blog about increasing vagal tone. The vagus nerves are the longest in our body, and play a key role in the...
Fe Robinson
Jul 1, 20222 min read
Relational ruptures take time to heal
A theme in therapeutic work is the way relationships can rupture and repair. Both for couples, and for individuals, this is often a...
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 24, 20223 min read
Rowing your metaphorical boat
I popped into my kids school this week to talk to the Early Years and Key Stage 1 children about Spiritual Practice and Meditation. We...
Fe Robinson
Jun 17, 20222 min read
Spotting patterns in how you communicate
In recent months I have been delving into Brown and Elliott’s comprehensive book about Attachment Disturbances in Adults. It’s a...
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