Beth Sibbald - Relational Psychotherapist

22/06/2024

22/06/2024

Looking forward to welcoming my clients onto these much comfier new sofas next week!

I currently have one regular weekly appointment available at 2.40pm on Tuesdays. If you are considering starting therapy please have a look at my website or drop me a line, I will be very happy to hear from you.

www.therapynewcastle.co.uk

14/11/2023

“The most powerful therapy is human love.” ❤️

From Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

The gender used in this quote relates to "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog".
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12/05/2023

The more loving awareness we offer to all parts of ourselves, the more we can give to others.Buddhist teachings are about radical openness - bearing witness to experience as it is, without the overlay of I & me wishing it would be different 😉 Mindful compassion and understanding can create more peaceful, clear ways of looking at reality, at ourselves, each other and our world.

Thank you for the beautiful quote

25/03/2023

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As relational mammals with the sort of nervous system that we've been crafted with, with the kind of heart that we've been provided with, the experience of abandonment and aloneness is really the greatest type of suffering we can experience.

It goes to the very core of who and what we are as beings wired to connect, to love and be loved, to hold and be held, and to rest, and thrive, and live, and heal in the arms of another, metaphorically and also physically, emotionally, neurophysiologically, and also spiritually.

And no matter how much inner work we do, how healed, or transformed, or enlightened, or awakened we become, or fantasize ourselves to have become, we don't ever really transcend our relational nature. We don't rise above hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

And we don't need to apologize for this or pretend it's otherwise or shame ourselves for having this relationally configured nervous system.

We don't need to apologize for the fact that we really are relationally crafted.

02/01/2023

the year is done. i spread the past three hundred sixty-five days before me on the living room carpet.

here is the month i decided to shed everything not deeply committed to my dreams. the day i refused to be a victim to the self-pity. here is the week i slept in the garden. the spring i wrung the self-doubt by its neck. hung your kindness up. took down the calendar. the week i danced so hard my heart learned to float above water again. the summer i unscrewed all the mirrors from their walls. no longer needed to see myself to feel seen. combed the weight out of my hair.

i fold the good days up and place them in my back pocket for safekeeping. draw the match. cremate the unnecessary. the light of the fire warms my toes. i pour myself a glass of warm water to cleanse myself for january. here I go. stronger and wiser into the new.

~ Rupi Kaur

[Art: Robgonsalvesart.com]

18/12/2022

“A cure through love” (Freud) ♥️

Who’s your favourite fictional therapist?

In psychoanalysis, a screen memory covers up a deeper, more emotionally charged issue. Similarly, movie and television screens both shield and open us to human complexity through fiction. The opportunity to peer into shadow and secrets from a safe distance is irresistible.
Depictions of psychotherapists and therapy can range from the malevolent Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) to psychic empath Deanna Troi (Star Trek). Most on-screen therapists, however, like their real-world counterparts, are wounded healers doing their best to help despite sometimes substantial fallibilities. Bruce Willis (Sixth Sense) doesn’t realize he’s dead; Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos) denies her mobster client’s sociopathy, and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) embodies the mercurial power of humor that grants perspective. Jung understood the value of the analyst’s capacity to suffer as they led the way; he writes, “…it is his own hurt that gives a measure of his power to heal.”
During the painful tumult of the COVID pandemic, growing demand for therapeutic support piqued public curiosity in the mechanisms of psychotherapy, opening the way for Jonah Hill’s vulnerable documentary STUTZ, filmed with his ailing therapist Phil Stutz. It invites the public to witness the wisdom, mutual vulnerabilities, and authentic affection that fuels the healing process. As Freud wrote in a letter to Jung, “…psychoanalysis in essence, is a cure through love.”