Melette Els Counselling and Trauma Therapy

02/05/2022

02/03/2021

“Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.”- Deepak Chopra

02/03/2021

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”Henri Nouwen

09/07/2020

"Today was a tough one," said Piglet, who was very noticeably not his usual self, and was instead sitting quietly on an upturned tree stump, looking out over the Hundred Acre Wood.

"I'm sorry to hear that," said Pooh, carefully sitting down on the other end of the tree stump, at a safe, social distance away from Piglet. "Is there anything I can do?"

Piglet paused for a moment. Then: "You're doing it," he said.

"I am?" said Pooh, looking down at himself in confusion. "But I'm not doing anything, Piglet. Whatever do you mean."

"You're Being There," said Piglet, in a voice that was much smaller, and much sadder, than it would generally be. "Being There, for me."

"But that's nothing!" said Pooh. "I would Be There for you any time, Piglet, you know that."

"I do," agreed Piglet. "But don't ever say that it's nothing. To you, it might seem like nothing.

"But to me, right now... it feels like everything."

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08/05/2020

“Failure is not the opposite of success. It is a part of success.” – Anonymous

02/05/2020

What is your thoughts on this? Just one of the many new challenges we are facing.

Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways.

01/05/2020

Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways.

29/04/2020

Face to face counselling
As from next week we can meet in person again! Online consultations, however will continue and will be part of the practice in future.

27/04/2020

Wow, what do you think abut this? How can telling our story in this present circumstances help each of us? ...
Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you know that only two things have been proven to help survivors of the Holocaust? Massage is one. Telling their story is another. Being touched and touching. Telling your story is touching. It sets you free.