Holding Space

Holding Space is something we do as nurses, we do it for patients going through difficult times, the dying, their families, people with mental health issues and while giving difficult…

Lifestyle

‘Holding Space’ for your friends and family

Holding space means being physically, mentally, and emotionally present for someone. It means putting your focus on someone to support them as they talk about their feelings. Holding space for…

Spirituality Yoga

What are Chakras?

What are Chakras and where are they found? Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means disk or wheel. Some claim there are as many as 88,000 chakras in the human…

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What does psychedelic integration mean?

Psychedelic integration is a term that refers to a range of activities including therapy that are conducted to maximise therapeutic benefits and minimise harm from psychedelic experiences.

Family Lifestyle

Anticipatory grief

Grief is often understood to happen after a loss occurs, for example after a loved one dies. People expecting a loss may also experience something called anticipatory grief. This means…

Depression

Toxic shame is a debilitating feeling of worthlessness and self-loathing. No- one is born ‘ashamed’ - “Wherever there is shame, there has been a shamer”. Ref this Ordinary Shame Shame is an uncomfortable feeling that you get when…

Consciousness Spirituality Therapy

About Consciousness

For thousands of years, the study of human consciousness was largely the work of philosophers. Descartes proposed the idea of cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), which suggested that the…