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Off The Shelf… Grief Is The Thing with Feathers: Max Porter (2015)
Grief is the Thing with Feathers has been on the shelf for a while. I took it away with me when I went away for a short silent retreat (the one where I had no company to talk with). I loved this book and read it on the first morning in a few hours. The book has...

Single-Session Counselling – One Session at a Time
Are you facing a long waiting list for counselling and ready to act now? If you don’t want to lock into ten sessions of therapy! Do you think that one session (for now) will assist you? Then, single-session counselling might be the answer. What is single-session...

Filling up the Cup – Solo in Nature
Filling up the cup through a solo in nature is the ultimate in self-care. Heightened self-awareness and self-discovery can be found when spending time alone in nature. It may be a solo basecamp, pack walk or a few hours of deliberate intentions in urban parkland or...

Off The Shelf… Notes from Your Therapist, Allyson Dinneen (2021)
Notes from your Therapist Notes from your Therapist jumped off the shelf on a recent trip to the bookshop. Beautifully written notes on scraps of paper about emotional reactions to grief, relationships, wisdom, how you make sense, how to know how you feel, and how to...

25 years on – The stages of grief didn’t help me but here is what did…
When my husband died through illness, I had the distraction of work and study, but my grief was particularly challenging when I was on my own – at nights and weekends. Facebook support groups and real-life support groups, and the internet, did not exist as they do...