Julia Godden Therapies

10/11/2025

You don’t have to earn rest by exhausting yourself first. If you spent the weekend simply being still, that’s not wasted time, that’s your body asking for peace and you finally listening.

Art by Lore Pemberton, go follow for more of her beautiful

07/11/2025

I’m really excited to see Kae Tempest live on Sunday.

I’m in awe and full support of his work which expresses, in my opinion a rare depth and passionate inquiry into personal evolution and truth, I’ve loved Kae, since his younger years of anquish and in full support of his transition and notice the relief of coming out, and feel
able to flourish in a more truthful way as a young man.
A truly beautiful soul.

07/11/2025

I don’t practice DBT however I utilise a similar approach.
In my experience people lean heavy on the intellect/rational/ reasonable aspect of the mind.
Bypassing emotions and the body and this interior are common play.
Coming into actual contact with emotion is not something that seems to come easy to people. Coming into thought, or narrative about the feelings is more usual.

I support people in a compassionate and curious inquiry into what is felt, and to notice in a mindful way what is around it.

There can be quilt, shame, judgement about the feelings.

There can be uncertainty, numbness, dissociation.

Many valid reasons that usually stem from the past, or from culture and the environment why feeling feelings can be complicated, and why it can feel threatening to come into contact with the body.

But the way to live a fuller life is to allow the possibility of acknowledging feelings and being witnessed with that by a caring, attuned other.

DBT : Wise Mind Skill.
Life's challenges require us to draw on both emotion and reason. Relying too much on just one of these creates an imbalanced perspective. In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), wise mind balances emotion and reason, helping us make healthy decisions and lead a fulfilling life.

Wise Mind thinking is an excellent starting point for anyone new to DBT and is best practiced daily - several times a day, until it starts to be incorporated automatically.

This Wise Mind: DBT skill worksheet describes wise mind and how it differs from emotion and reasonable minds. Emotion mind is when we use feelings alone to determine our decisions and behavior, whereas reasonable mind is when we use only logic, ignoring our feelings.

With wise mind, we recognize and respect our feelings while responding to them in a rational way.

[via Therapist Aid]

29/10/2025

https://youtu.be/2v2f_rh7kko?si=wmzH7B06Nx6tq0fv

If you are interested in yoga or connecting with your body and have experienced sexual assault this might be of benefit to you,

Choice | Wk1 of Reclamation | Trauma Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual AssaultPractice the 4 Session Series Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P...

28/10/2025

Beloveds,

What are you rooted in this season?

Notice what lives in you at this time
What do you identify within your inner landscape.
Perhaps sadness, grief? Or there shame or guilt? Or joy. Or spaciousness ? Just notice what lives in you and see if you can meet it.

Can you meet it? Get to know how it feels to locate it?

What gets in the way of your presence ?
Or of feeling your innate sense of worth?

The invitation is here to be gently curious to what circulates within your being.

To pause. To slow down, be with your breath.

Can you ask yourself what reminds you that tou belong to something larger than fear?

Can you remind yourself about what supports you to build capacity, who or what are your ally’s?

Where are the places that make it easier to return to yourself?

What can you bring into your experience in this moment that feels a little bit more like ease?

Is it closing your eyes? Looking at the sky? Putting on cozy socks? … let me know.
I’d love to know what kind of support, serves your wellbeing.
In little, and bigger ways x

22/10/2025

Freud and Jung offered two distinctive ideas on the development of the self: one shaped by early experience and the other by the forces of nature imprinted in the archetypes of the collective unconscious. But, Andrew Samuels argues, we are political animals.

17/10/2025

Sink in to the process. Be with yourself exactly where you are. Xx

"Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road,
not to reach a goal,
but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,
life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy."

( ✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj )

Art : Deep Dream Generator

15/10/2025

Many people suspect that, by showing compassion to themselves, they would be excusing themselves, going soft, or denying reality.

In fact, the opposite is true. When we lack self-compassion, we’re more likely to develop false bravado and grandiose overconfidence in an effort to deny the possibility of failure.

Treating yourself with compassion is at odds with deceiving yourself or letting yourself off the hook. You can’t have real self-compassion without first facing the truth about who you are and what you feel.

By being kind to yourself and embracing all emotions as normal, natural parts of being a person, you build up your internal support system. The knowledge that you will be there for yourself—no matter what—actually encourages you to take risks and try harder.

14/10/2025

A lively and razor-sharp critique, Purser busts the myths its salesmen rely on, challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all. If we are to harness the truly revolutionary potential of mindfulness, we have to cast off its neoliberal shackles, liberating mindfulness for a collective awakening.

In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called mindfulness revolution, exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as a technique for social control and self-pacification. Critiques of mindfulness, mindful revolution, the mindfulness movement, Jon Kabat-Z

14/10/2025

Loneliness isn’t about being alone, it’s about not being understood. You can be surrounded by people and still feel invisible when your heart’s language has no listener. The real ache begins when your truths are too deep for surface conversations and your feelings are too real for shallow connections.

Healing starts the moment you stop hiding what hurts and start expressing what’s true. When you allow yourself to be seen — fully, vulnerably, imperfectly — you no longer feel lonely within your own soul. That’s where real connection begins: not with others first, but with your own voice. 🌙

07/10/2025

https://youtu.be/2BnY-_l7Fvo?si=_dNPlDrH9U8erxi2

As long as you content yourself with a policy of passivity, negativity and complaints, you will find it quite hard to improve anything in your life. You need...