Julia Savage Counselling

29/10/2023

R.I.P. Matthew Perry

29/10/2023

Most therapist are moving away from the 'stages of grief' model, as they recognise that grief does not come in stages but it is like waves that comes and go. Tokin looks as grief as staying the same but our life grows around it, rather than the grief gets smaller. This image demonstrates this well.

29/10/2023

Meghan Devine author of It's ok not to be ok, has a great podcast, with different episodes talking about grief in a culture that finds this difficult to discuss.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/75PResl1pyyNI4ISOj2U4I

Episode · It’s OK That You’re Not OK with Megan Devine · Setting the stage. Why do we need to talk about pain and grief and horrible things anyway? Who wants to talk about that? With everyone grieving something over the past few years, and healthcare workers pushed beyond their limits, we’ve...

23/06/2023

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

from New and Selected Poems, 1992
Beacon Press, Boston, MA

Copyright 1992 by Mary Oliver.
All rights reserved.

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Amazing quote by van der Kolk.

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31/12/2022

The story of the Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse began life on Charlie Mackesy's Instagram account.

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27/12/2022

Co regulation.