Towards Growth Counselling

01/02/2023

Stephen Fry is a true ambassador for mental health 💜💬🗣👂
Thursday 2nd February 2023

Letter: Stephen Fry, the president of Mind, encourages everyone to take the time to talk, to listen and to change lives

31/12/2022

Happy New year. 💖💜💞

On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like…
to be fitter,
to eat cleaner,
to work harder.

On the stroke of midnight tonight,
you can resolve to become a whole new you,
if you so choose.

Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge, all you already are.
Because it’s a lot.
You’re a lot.

And you deserve to be commended.

On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping.
For breaking, again,
and for rebuilding, again.

For catching the stones life has thrown at you,
and using them to build your castle that little bit stronger.

You have endured, my friend.

And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you,
when you are already so very much indeed.

Happy new year.

You made it.

Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide,
accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ each other,
for all we are..

Donna Ashworth

https://amzn.eu/d/3YE2BnF

ART by Sherine Tolba

28/12/2022

This 👇💖💜

Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

I wish you peace in 2023.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

Donna Ashworth

https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

ART BY Demelsa Haughton Illustration

#2023

21/12/2022

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18/12/2022

Well said!

18/12/2022

Make sure you are looking after you 💜

17/12/2022

24/03/2022

Just feeling heard can be a powerful thing. 💜

01/01/2022

Happy new year everyone. I hope 2022 brings positive experiences and growth.

02/12/2021

https://youtu.be/oNC9cc5ZsyU

Self Concept and Self esteem video for edu600. 10/11/10

12/11/2021

I'll definitely be scooping out some time for my own self-care this weekend 💗