Jane Barclay, Therapeutic Counselling & Psychotherapy Exeter

03/11/2025

20/10/2025

I've just been shown a vital truth of self-nurturing before/during nurturing others

19/10/2025

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” – Erich Fromm
For Fromm, love is the cure for the isolation and emptiness of modern life. It reconnects us with others, offering meaning, sanity, and wholeness in a fragmented world. Without love, existence remains hollow and disconnected.

18/10/2025

Hi everyone
I wanted to share this invitation to our Boarding School Concern Conference on the 1/11/25 which we hope will be helpful

You can book on this link: https://boardingschoolconcern.uk/booking-for-conference-2025-now-open/

If cost is an issue, please contact us as we have some ‘pay it forward tickets’ where others have donated the cost for anyone struggling to pay.

We hope to see you there. We understand that it can be hard to come alone and there will be a lot of support. We are all boarding school survivors and understand

Take care

Caroline Rollings
Chair BSConcern

Booking for the BSConcern Conference 2025 is now open. See here for details of the programme, etc. Please register and pay here. We welcome all-comers: ex-boarders who have started to …⁠continued

17/10/2025

What a rich evening at Totnes civil centre last night, showing 'Boarding on Insanity' - must have been over 100 there - and thanks to Chukumeka Maxwell and Ben Cole for facilitating 'roving mike' afterwards for some heart-felt responses.

This is a 'must-see' film to raise awareness of the trauma of being sent to boarding school for every single person, in terms of disrupted attachment and subsequent survival, as well as lack of safety allowing for additional abuse - and the impact of this trauma in the wider world: from families to relationships of all kinds, to leadership positions on an international scale.
I feel privileged to be working who seek to heal, body and soul.

10/09/2025

For those in Stroud, this Sunday, 14th September 2.30pm sees the next screening of Boarding on Insanity Documentary.

And then on 16th October at 6pm a screening will be happening in Totnes, Devon.

Both screenings will include Q&As with specialists and some members of the production team.

Please do share far and wide if you know anyone in this area.

27/03/2024

''I think midlife is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear:
I’m not screwing around. It’s time. All of this pretending and performing – these coping mechanisms that you’ve developed to protect yourself from feeling inadequate and getting hurt – has to go.

Your armor is preventing you from growing into your gifts. I understand that you needed these protections when you were small. I understand that you believed your armor could help you secure all of the things you needed to feel worthy of love and belonging, but you’re still searching and you’re more lost than ever.

Time is growing short. There are unexplored adventures ahead of you. You can’t live the rest of your life worried about what other people think. You were born worthy of love and belonging. Courage and daring are coursing through you. You were made to live and love with your whole heart. It’s time to show up and be seen.''

~ Brené Brown

Photographer: Robert G. Zuckerman, of Helen Mirren, age 70