Dolina Munro Counselling and Psychotherapy

09/12/2025

We have to choose our battles. Acceptance can be helpful at times and is the difference between focussing on futile resistance and moving towards constructive change.

Accepting feelings, imperfections and reality helps us see what we can control and what we can't. It's a leveller... It keeps us in the present and requires no judgment.

Acceptance is not staying still and approving bad behaviour but it is a reality check and a way to stop minimising and distracting from what is. Acceptance can lead to action.

*This image is currently pretty apt and made me lol 😆

08/12/2025

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One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

~John O'Donohue.
From Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
https://amzn.to/4rCDAWs

art | Commonbymaru (DeviantArt)

03/12/2025

Reflecting on the Highland hospice event today. A time to remember those who have passed and to celebrate and share the present. Young and old together in community and connection. A lovely event - well made.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

01/12/2025

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28/11/2025

Each time you say 'not today' you're building discipline, confidence and contentment.

There is a quiet strength when you choose to resist urges and that carries across the board. The culture of urgency builds little but anxiety and you my friend are fine today.

You're doing great, keep going 😌

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25/11/2025

So well put

22/11/2025

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

20/11/2025

Thursday Lols.

12/11/2025

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07/11/2025

Friday feeling ☕

Ladies having tea in the Scottish Highlands, circa 1910.