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You don’t just have to wait for it you have to work for it. You have to make conscious your experiences of being loved, learn to love yourself, explore your fantasies, delve into your perfectionism, process your parents relationship with you and each other, spend time with yourself alone in the world and be with yourself in the therapy room until you see your own light and dark.
Sounds like a lot? That’s just the preparation stage. The universe will bring you a few people as practice and then send you someone filled with many challenges and you will find many reasons to say no. There will be inner dragons and danger and therein lies your myth. You must look deeply at what you need to overcome in yourself in order to give and receive love. This process does not happen overnight if you’re looking for a soul mate connection and is not an easy journey. It won’t be filled with 24 hours a day eye gazing with a light you’ve never experienced. You will experience moments like that but more importantly you will have a deep, solid and safe connection after spending time creating it together – this doesn’t just fall in your lap. And other times you will experience problems in the material world and stress about things not worth stressing over. But you do because you’re human and that’s ok. Your partner will accept you for it but also challenge you to help your growth.
We’d love to hear you sharing about your experiences of committing to this process and where you’re at on this journey.
Sending love to all you brave Soulys! Contact us for a free initial consultation if you’d like to work together. (at Notting Hill)

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Struggling with body issues, disordered eating, anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, restricting, bingeing, dieting or starving?

An unhealthy relationship with food directly links with the way we nurture and care for ourselves. At Nurse The Soul we work with the compulsive thoughts, actions and behaviours towards a healthy body weight and mind, sometimes along with a 12 Step program of recovery.

If you are looking for freedom from your thoughts surrounding food, body and weight please contact us through our website for a free consultation. Allow yourself to use the time you spend compulsively obsessing change into time for love, happiness and peace. (at Notting Hill)

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New location less than 5 minutes walk from the Portobello road, Notting Hill. For a free 50 minute consultation please contact us at www.nursethesoul.com.
We also offer our services in Little Venice, Paddington and on Skype. Evening session availability. (at Notting Hill)

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psychabuse101:

squidsqueen:

metapianycist:

“It’s only a trigger if it causes horrible flashbacks” is so utterly divorced from how the concept of a trigger is used by actual real therapists

a thing doesn’t have to cause traditional flashbacks to be a trigger. a trigger can be a thing that causes:

– panic attacks
– emotional flashbacks*
– anxiety episodes
– paranoia/delusions
– hallucinations
– seizures
– rage episodes
– manic episodes
– depression spikes
– suicidal thoughts
– dissociative episodes
– sensory overload
– obsessions and compulsions (as in OCD)

and probably more things than that, i don’t know all the possible things. I’m not trained in clinical psychology, but neither are all the assholes who say “It’s not a real trigger unless it gives you flashbacks”

* an emotional flashback is a type of flashback where you feel the emotions associated with the trauma happening to you while still on some level knowing that the trauma isn’t currently happening to you. this is a more common type of flashback than the traditional kind.

tl;dr the word trigger in clinical psychology (the field of therapists) can refer to many things other than traditional flashbacks. stop telling ppl “that’s not a trigger unless it gives you flashbacks,” because you are utterly fucking wrong.

•Addiction relapse.

In simpler terms, anything that causes a worsening of symptoms is a trigger. This applies to physical illnesses too, (foods can be migraine “triggers” for example).

Anything that causes a worsening of your symptoms is a trigger for those symptoms.

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Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgement. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.

People Survive in Different Ways | Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)
Source: meanwhilepoetry
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In alchemy, nigredo, or blackness, means putrefaction or decomposition. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher’s stone all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter. This means we must first go towards the darkness, the mud, in order to transform it. We do this through talking, visualisation, play, imagery, artwork, committed practice, dreamwork, alchemy, shamanic work and deep intuitive listening. If you want to work with us please contact via our website. Real transformation requires a deep long term commitment from both parties. We usually suggest six sessions to see whether the fit is right to commit to the work together long term.