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Healing a wound needs attention

What I do know for sure though, is that wounds don’t heal without attention. Even when the body is healing a minor scratch, or a much deeper injury through cellular repair, something is propelling that process and it isn’t stagnation. The energy the body needs to heal a physical issue requires ingredients like nutrition, the removal of and protection from infection, medicinal manipulation through chemical intake or application, something to help mend the problem.

It is the same with an emotional or psychological injury. Wounds that occur to our psyche, personality, development, attachment, our learning and connection need attention. They don’t heal by themselves and they don’t automatically resolve through disinterest and denial.

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The Joy in Counselling

Counselling can feel contradictory but that is what is most liberating about therapy. That sometimes opposing things can be true and coexist at the same time. That we can find stillness and peace in chaos, and that the complexity of the human experience can be more than just bearable, it can be exhilarating.

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Past, Present and Future - The Self and the Brain

The evolutionary aspect of our brain is something that when understood, even on a very basic level, can reveal why we sometimes think, feel and behave the way we do.

One aspect of this is how we relate to and process time. It can seem very complicated and existential, taking us down a rabbit hole of wondering that can feel overwhelming and confusing, but it doesn’t have to be that complex.

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