Ringland Psychology

05/09/2024

13/08/2024

01/07/2024

"We become ill by rejecting our inner life.

We become well by becoming at one with the rejected emotional truths of our lives"

Jon Frederickson

08/06/2024

"Each of us has an inherent will to recover, a principle of restoring our integrity that is deeply unconscious.

We have an inherent instinct to become at one with the truth of our lives."

Jon Frederickson

21/05/2024

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin

23/04/2024

Last night I dreamed
-blessed illusion-
that I had a beehive here
in my heart
and that
the golden bees were making
white combs and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Antonio Machado (translated by Robert Bly)

10/04/2024

"Vulnerability is an infinitely precious thing. There is nothing as lonely as that which has become hardened. When your heart hardens, your life becomes numb. Yeats says: 'Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
.. Vulnerability risks hurt, disappointment and failure. Yet it remains a vital opening to change and truth. We should not see vulnerability as something that we need to hide or get over. The slow and difficult work of living out your vulnerability holds you in the flow of life."

John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes

27/03/2024

"Every life has its own natural shelter. So often our severity with ourselves cuts that to shreds...when the storm of suffering rages one should not go out there into single combat with it. Rather one should lie in and shelter close to the wall until the storm has abated.

There is humility in the idea of lying low and sheltering. It recognises that the storm comes from the penumbral unknown; it has a mind and direction of its own and the vulnerable individual can but shelter until the time of tranquility returns." - John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes