Just Being Human Counselling

17/11/2025

National Self-Care Week - 17-23 November 2025

National Self-Care Week is the UK-wide annual awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self-care across communities, families, generations and all humans…🌎

This years theme is “Mind and Body” and organisations are encouraged to use Self-Care Week to support their humans in the practise self-care at work and home for a healthier, happier life…

As a busy Counsellor, parent and family member it’s so important that my personal Self Care is mindfully considered and placed as a priority.. 🙏🏼

Although Self Care is a very personal psychological support mechanism, it is extremely good to share what strategies can be used as this may encourage others to try and find the best regime for their personal human thrive factors…

In my Self Care regime i have:

Professional Supervision - anonymous case load, download

Personal Counselling..

Reiki healing

Sound Bathing..

Nature Immersion..

Walk and Talk .. thank you Paul at ‘Soul to Soul’..

Body massage and deep tissue work…

Animal emotional support - ESA - Emotional support Animals..

Gardening…

Personal Social connectivity..

Community Admin and supporting..

Gym.. thank you Robin at .. and Nathan at the Gym group..

Charities… and much more…

Please share in the comments any Self Care aspects that you have found to be useful..

There’s a Self Care check in from the wonder ‘Therapy Aid group’ in the photo’s and on this link - click 👇🏼

https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/self-care-assessment

And a Self Care Wheel if you need some inspiration to get you started..

Of course Counsellor aren’t just here for you when things are in crisis, we can assist you in developing robust Personal Self Care strategies that support Resilience, up hold the concept of the human ‘Window of Tolerance’ and give a foundation tool kit for when life gets tough..

Contact Just Being Human Counselling at :

Web: justbeinghumancounselling.com

WhatsApp: 07593 454 881

Email: justbeinghumancounselling@icloud.com

Take much care of yourselves.. 🙏🏼🦋


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13/11/2025

Morning meditation to try when in a safe and stationary position.. 🫶🏼

Empowering your inner ‘quiet knowing’ of your purpose…🌎

Calming hyper vigilance or a disregulated nervous system and grounding you in your confidence to be your best authentic self…🙏🏼🦋


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Disclaimer: do not perform or play whilst driving, operating machinery or looking after dependent humans…

Ref: meditation by ‘Awake Planet’ on YouTube…

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10/11/2025

Monday Reflections With Journal of the Soul … 🫶🏼

06/11/2025

Please meet the wonderful Gladys Gordon .. 🌺

I engaged with Gladys wanting to realign and boost my personal Health mindset and knowledge base after hitting
peri-menopause..

Everything felt bleak, grey and hard. Even going for that treasured well being walk was tough to get started with..

Gladys provided me with knowledge around food, connected to blood sugars, looked at my personal energy fluctuations and created a plan for me to really buy into.. ive tried lots of plans .. 🙌🏼

For me it’s essential for any Health and Wellness to hold a human holistic approach and work with my personal human physical system… 🌺

My cholesterol has lowered..
My sleep is of a good quality..
My movement isn’t locked just into the gym but gentle and sympathetic to my energy fluctuations..
My diet has been reingnited with better, menopause focus healthy options and replacements for sugar ir carb cravings..

Gladys provided accountability, which is something i need to keep moving forwards with a new mindset and process..

Gladys is empathic, gentle, kind and really cares about her clients.. 🫶🏼

I highly recommend connecting if your personal Health and Wellness requires a boost .. 🌺

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25/10/2025

Saturday Reflections with Alan Watts..🙏🏼🦋

you ever felt an overwhelming pull to step back from the world? In this profound exploration, w...

10/10/2025

World Mental Health Day: 10 October 2025

At Just Being Human Counselling we are focussing efforts on raising awareness and supporting Mental Health every day … 🙏🏼🦋

The purpose of World Mental Health Day is to improve knowledge, raise awareness, shift mindsets and mobilise efforts in support of mental health for every human around the world… 🫶🏼

No human is exempt from experiencing poor Mental Health.. 🙏🏼

This year’s focus is around 'access to services - Mental Health in catastrophes and emergencies'. The theme highlights the importance of people being able to protect their mental health in times of global instability…

While our economies shake, the environmental conditions change and there is a pure natural awakening around human wellbeing, what our human system needs to perform and human purpose, it can be tough on our programming and belief systems..

With the world picture being bought to us through media and some of the sadness that currently exists, it creates ripples into our human Mental Health status..

Having access to Mental Health services is imperative, its a mechanism all humans need to understand the impact on human thoughts, feeling and inner psychological processes…

At Just Being Human Counselling we are growing our provision to provide wider access for those requiring a Counselling journey.. This journey often requires the support of a multitude of Self Care and Human Supporting activities…

Our Community will be growing in the coming months so that a Counselling journey with Just Being Human supports the whole human psychological system realigning, recalibrating and learning to maintain a good picture of human Mental Health..

We have three Counsellors with different knowledge bases and access to a multitude of Mental Health and Well Being supporting specialist…

We understand to start a Counselling journey can feel tough, so we’re opening access to this through growing a Community of specialists in their fields of human Well being..

Access should not be tough..

For further information:

Web: justbeinghumancounselling.com

Email: jbhcounselling@icloud.com

WhatsApp: 07593 454 881

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joalcockcounsellor?igsh=djczcWMyMDFzaHE%3D&utm_source=qr

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/14Kb8mnmJHJ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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07/10/2025

Tuesday Reflections and genuine deep compassionate plea, with Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons and Psychthrive… 🙏🏼🦋

Please stay with us.. please let a safe space, Person or Counsellor lead you to hope… 🫶🏼

Your life is worth living .. always.. 🦋

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Ref: Instagram Reel from Psychthrive sharing Dan Reynolds powerful message to his fans …

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMkaUgss8fN/?igsh=cnM5ZnkxczBhdWdz

05/10/2025

Had the most uplifting, vibrant and cup filling day Saturday with the awesome I am Holly Matthews at her ‘Be Weird Live’ event in Coventry.. 🫶🏼

Holly is an extremely Intuitive Psychology Coach, NLP Practitioner, and the vibrant force behind The Happy Me Project, empowering thousands to unlock their confidence and inner thrive…

The energy in the room was pure and beautiful, so were all the humans that attended, all to catch a glimpse of the wonderful work Holly does in support of moving us into our own power and building our confidence.. if you haven’t been to one of Hollys events, its a must.. 🫶🏼

We met the fabulous Sandra Garlick - speaker, Mentor, Business Growth strategist and all round inspiring human with the best shoes, i must say.. photo below 🌺

We were honoured to experience the most uplifting, energising and scientifically proven to move stored emotions out of our bodies ‘wake up shake up’ session by the magnificent Cat Merrick. Cat has been empowering humans through dance and movement to navigate stress, reclaim vitality and lead with joy and resilience..
An inspiring takeaway was around our internal alarm system that sets off when were not in immediate danger, the fight, flight, free and fawn process. Cat showed us how through movement and dance, we can allow the system to run its full process and bring ourselves back to calm.. rather than resisting, ignoring the inner signal.. it was amazing.. 🙏🏼

We had the upmost pleasure of experiencing ‘Laughter Yoga’ with the joyful Cat Googe - The Joy Queen, who enables humans to connect with Joy, build energy and impact through laughter. A Reiki Healer, NLP Coach and Laughter Yoga Practitioner. It was the most cathartic activity I’ve ever engaged with 🌺. I felt lighter, brighter and humanly connected afterwards and will definitely be adding Laughter Yoga to my Self Care regime ..🙏🏼

Huge thanks & gratitude to the talented Lucy Halligan for the most connected, compassionate, human focussed massage ive had in a while. Lucy is a massage expert and extremely knowledgeable Well Being expert who attends events to ensure all attendees are relaxed and in the right human state to take onboard new learning. I fully recommend Lucy at any of your corporate events..🙏🏼🌺

Holly moved us through psychological activities to remove past labels, notice inner critical voices and reshape unwanted programming and beliefs was magical.. i’ll not give too much away because the photo’s below show the impact. Holly has another event in Newcastle and i suggest you make the trip to be there..

I attended this event with my husband, Paul who was in dire need of some lighter, brighter and high vibrational energy.. 🙏🏼

I feel absolutely 💯 amazing and completely empowered. I was honoured to be in the room with so many amazing 🤩 humans..

Thank you Holly 🌺💖
Click here for further details 👇🏼

https://www.iamhollymatthews.com

26/09/2025

Friday Reflections with ‘Psychology Today’…

‘Why young Minds are Breaking faster than we can Mend them’ … 🙏🏼

Insightful article by T. Alexander Puutio, Ph.D. in ‘Psychology Today’ ..

Our adolescent presentation of poor Mental Health is rapidly increasing. The societal structure many of us blindly followed as young adolescents is now being experienced as not satisfying, unable to ignite human psychological thrive factors and sometimes completely detrimental to human health and well being.. 🦋

Are we going to ignore this decline in our youths Mental Health or can we be open to listening, exploring, adapting and changing for the better ?

From the article 👇🏼

‘Change will also require us to rethink our cultural narratives around passion and performance. “Follow your passion” has become a form of performative peer pressure, where not having one at 18 is seen as a fatal blow against any career hopes one might have.

The poly-crisis world isn’t going away, but what can change is how we prepare the next generation to live within it. If the old model was to promise stability, the new model must be to cultivate adaptability. We cannot erase uncertainty, but we can equip them to thrive inside it.

And if we do not, then the breaking will continue, much faster than we can mend it’…

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Article from ‘Psychology Today’ in full 👇🏼

Youth happiness has collapsed—and without new tools for resilience, today’s teens risk carrying fragility into adulthood.

21/09/2025

Gratitude being a simple, yet powerful practice that can shift the mindset away from negative thinking, build resilience to tough life moments and build human processes of appreciation…🦋

What are you grateful for in this moment? ..

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