Hilda Nanning Counselling and Associates

09/25/2023

Care and support wishes to all allies feeling this wrong. Wellness is resistance to oppression. Xoh
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09/14/2023

09/08/2023

This post is inspired by my session a few days ago with client J, whom has been doing this good work for some time and gets paid very little and cares so very much. Your integrity appears to have no end J and I am so pleased its meaningfulness nourishes your way (*David Epston shout out to the influence of wonderfullness). Client D. You also are with me as I write this note.
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09/01/2023

STUCK is a problem story that frequents the therapy room. As we get to know it’s complexity, we discover it can be many problems all clogged up - hence the overwhelm that can accompany it, intimidating possibility and change.

It can be satisfying and even inspiring as we dismantle the power of STUCK.

Beyond the STUCK clog this week alone, we found: "LOOSE MUSCLES AND BREATH, AND SOME ACCEPTANCE" ‘A RELEASE FROM THE GRIP OF OVERWHELM’, ‘EXTRICATION FROM BEING SO BOUND AND GAGGED", A SENSE OF BEING "FREE AND UNTANGLED".

Not a bad week unstucking. Thank you clients,
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08/25/2023

I acknowledge this work as my own greatest support. It has carried me through the uglies of the world, crisis and tragedy. I dedicate myself to a practice rigour, in honor of its beauty and brilliance and in thanks for my sustenance and survival.

Thank you dear client A and all you others, for taking a stand for what’s important to you, despite.

Your fan
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08/18/2023

Embodied/felt affirmative and visualization practice supports the body to lean into and move towards a preferred experience.

Somatic-Narrative Therapy gets this and practice further deepens the welcome of the preferred - and choice.

(Yes dear client - our after p*e one min, hello body practice is a good example of walking this welcoming the preferred talk).

Sending love to you all on the roads of becoming.
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08/11/2023

Thank you dear Client K, for this post inspiration and your insight on the ‘just too much’ experiences that separated you from your sense of a full self for many years now.

When we explore the ‘dissociation’ in the ‘safer zones’ (such as a therapy room and the body talking EMDR experience) and begin to feel our way back to a fuller presence, the two halves of the brains that may have been conveniently disjointed under the conditions of threat can be reunited and a ‘safer’ access to the deeper experiences of connection and equanimity can be renegotiated.

The left brain may have offered functioning in the task-oriented, logical domain, while the right brain may have gone off line. When we are ready to feel more and have access to the right supports, we might find ourselves protesting the interruption of our presence and coherence.

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It has been a privilege to be a support in your reclamation journey K. In respect and admiration for your determination and tenacity,

Hilda
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07/31/2023

This post is inspired by my recent therapeutic witness and support with client L and is dedicated to Madam Shuhada' Sadaqat, Sinead O’Connor. May she be at peace with her Crone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/nyregion/sinead-oconnor-childhood-abuse.html

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Other than our dictionary definitions (hello??), feminist inclusive literature describes the crone archetype as a pre-existent form in the collective unconscious that embodies instinctive ways of channeling wisdom, deep knowing, and intuition, guiding us through change, to bring forth the light for transformation (if we listen and allow)....................................

07/28/2023

Inspired by Client M forging into the new world with warm sand beneath her feet and a horizon of being as enough....................................

07/21/2023

07/14/2023

For Client S,
Inspired by the ‘protection of your kindness (and precious energy), and the idea of sharing ethical responsibility and accountability, as being good for all

Your fan and co-researcher,
Hilda...................................

06/27/2023

Inviting 'more to the story' of trauma.. beyond the problem's tyranny of oppression

and the identity that claims personhood as a disorder ----

lies SPACE

and in that space there are views and pathways to

clearings
to refuge
to nourishment
to resistance

to subverting the colonization of our felt experience.

*Feeling our Way Back From Trauma: Hello Body link...................................