MCA Counselling & Psychotherapy UK

11/05/2025

24/06/2024

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How might your life have been different, if, as a young woman, there had been a place for you, a place where you could go to be amongst women ... a place for you when you had feelings of darkness? And, if there had been another woman, somewhat older, to be with you in your darkness, to be with you until you spoke ... spoke out your pain and anger and sorrow.

And, if you had spoken until you had understood the sense of your feelings, how they reflected your own nature, your own deepest nature, crying out of the darkness, struggling to be heard.

And, what if, after that, every time you had feelings of darkness, you knew that the woman would come to be with you? And would sit quietly by as you went into your darkness to listen to your feelings and bring them to birth ... So that, over the years, companioned by the woman, you learned to no longer fear your darkness, but to trust it ... to trust it as the place where you could meet your own deepest nature and give it voice.

How might your life be different if you could trust your darkness ?

Judith Duerk

Photography Leonard Missone early 1900s

www.teallach.com

23/06/2024

Resting is doing You don’t need to be busy. You don’t need to justify your existence in terms of productivity. Rest is an essential part of survival. An essential part of us. An essential part of being the animals we are. When a dog lies in the sun I imagine it does it without guilt, because as far as I can tell dogs seem more in tune with their own needs. As I grow older, I think that resting might actually be the main point of life. To sit down passively, inside or outside, and merely absorb things—the tick of a clock, a cloud passing by, the distant hum of traffic, a bird singing—can feel like an end in itself. It can actually feel and be more meaningful than a lot of the stuff we are conditioned to see as productive. Just as we need pauses between notes for music to sound good, and just as we need punctuation in a sentence for it to be coherent, we should see rest and reflection and passivity—and even sitting on the sofa—as an intrinsic and essential part of life that is needed for the whole to make sense.
Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

02/06/2024

From Book: "Sparks Her Own Flame"
~ Pierre Alex Jeanty

11/05/2024

Please vote for Deya & share!! 🙏🏽 🙏🏽

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We made it through to the next round. There’s 1 more after this so let’s please keep up the momentum. It’s getting more and more competitive so votes matter more now than ever! Really appreciate all of the support for Deya 🙏🏽❤️

02/03/2024

🇵🇸**NATIONAL LOBBY DAY - Thursday 14th March 12-4pm ** 🇵🇸

We are teaming up with Oxfam and others to mobilise our collective networks to meet with their MPs in the Houses of Parliament as part of a mass lobby day on Gaza.

This lobby day is an opportunity for us to come together as a national Parents for Palestine network and meet face to face with our MPs to demand a permanent end to the genocide in Gaza.

HOW TO JOIN:
Follow the link below to sign up and receive instructions on how to invite your MP and a template letter to send them, and further info will be shared by email on plans for the day.

https://forms.gle/stirMZ3XyxTF44z99

If you cant attend but still want to be involved you can still write to your MP inviting them to attend the event and pick up your letter that we will print out and bring to Parliament on your behalf.

🍉 please share this call out as widely as possible 🍉

Thursday 14th March, 12-4pm Thames Pavilion, Palace of Westminster Parents4Palestine are teaming up with Oxfam and others to mobilise our collective networks to meet with their MPs in the Houses of Parliament on March 14th as part of a mass lobby day on Gaza. This lobby day is an opportunity for us....