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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07/28/2023

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...................................

06/20/2023

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06/13/2023

Thank you client J for your growing trust with heading into the traffic beyond the confines of stuck and for this too right motto. Xoh...................................

06/06/2023

I hear clients describe how this ‘appealing to the morality of oppression’ can be experienced as a stuckness that re-injures and oh my, how I have come to know this myself over the many years as a ‘guerrilla’ social worker.

Appealing to the morality of oppression can steal our energy and hold us hostage in the oppression.

💕💪🤸‍♀️Imagine ‘a being’ where remembering this was effortless. Where ‘practicing this knowing’ was fluid and our precious energy was not given away in vain. How might our fight feel with this remembering always close by, like a loyal friend who might whisper a gentle reminder when when we fall off course into forgetting?

‘Knowing this as a practice’ describes a phrase client C and I stumbled upon in our session this week… and we explored.. how does my body know this idea that is so meaningful to me and how can I show my love and loyalty to this idea and not just the protest that makes me feel so alone and re-injured.

Thank you client C, for your contribution to these beautiful ideas.. to ‘practice the knowing of justice’.. as a felt experience of loyalty for the body/heart/breath/soul - in the face of oppression can be resistance!

In care and admiration for wellness as a different kind of fight. Xo...................................

05/25/2023

The folks from previous generations did not really have this word ‘consent’.

Viva la revolution. Thank you this generation! A special thanks to q***r community folk and the feminisms world for their main contribution on asserting this into consciousness.

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We have a ways to go on remembering this consent idea applies to the relational communication and shared space worlds too, but keep up this good work. It is making a difference from my view!
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05/16/2023

As we can discover together in the therapeutic space of reclamation, growth and change, no one is who we are in this moment of experience and yet…

We are more than an isolated self.

Stories shape us just as much as we shape the stories we create. As we reclaim our wellness, we are claiming our rights as the authors of choice. At least that is how I experience this work - for which I am so grateful to have a life with....................................
-authoring

05/11/2023

When we acknowledge the temporal domain of growth and preferred change/healing, we can reorient to the past as not the present or the future.

We can honour our experiences, without the, overriding or undermining new experiences. Yay to the adventure. ...................................