Sarah Coe - Individual Counselling

14/11/2025

https://www.dandelion.farm/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOEQmpjbGNrA4RCYWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHocKyGxzPrVWRS-LMsd_ykuB9_mPoYJNPkE1kcwfDz5awh4d0xH79mc5qHm5_aem_MyyCoetJfRc3h9Qx4i2Xxg

Want to learn new skills about planting and growing fruit trees, berries, vegetables and herbs?

Greener Growth is holding a series of planting volunteer days with the first two in November.

You’ll be helping plant a Food Forest at Dandelion Farm a Holywell Row near Mildenhall, promoting the growth of local, sustainable produce for the local community.

It’s one of the projects that we’ve supported through our Building Resilience And Nutrition (BRAN) fund set up to support food projects that are working to:

• lift people out of food poverty such as through additional support to help people improve their finance
• give people increased confidence and skills such as growing their own food or making low cost healthy and nutritious meals
• connect with local producers and food retailers to share food and reduce food waste
• ensure the resilience of food projects by developing or expanding their existing offer and upskilling volunteers

BRAN has been created from £90,000 given by Suffolk Public Sector Leaders and is being delivered by West Suffolk Council in partnership with Community Action Suffolk and Suffolk County Council

For more on BRAN funding and how to apply visit https://orlo.uk/QRnXq

13/11/2025

Thank you to C.C for allowing me to share one persons experience of depression and the effect of counselling. If you relate to any aspect of this post please do reach out for support - counsellors like myself are here for you.

"Depression for me is like a constant painful gnawing chaotic oppressive darkness, an emotional and physical ache so intense that it consumes my mind and body, it ravages me, it feeds off me. I sometimes get a feeling of standing on the edge of a deep crater and a desire to lean forward and just enjoy the sense of weightlessness, of no pain, no noise in my head, no voices telling me how useless I am or how no-one cares or will even notice. My existence is pointless and keeping going hurts.

Depression for me is also like waking up and thinking come on I can do this, today I can get up and open the curtains, today I can answer the phone if it rings or take a shower. Depression ebbs and flows between states within me that have a deafening hold one moment and a detached silence the next. It means that when I don't answer the phone I am gripped by anxiety and can't talk, it means I haven't got the energy to socialise or smile, or eat, or walk. It means I feel as if I can barely breathe. It means I want to sleep but wake up tired.

Counselling gave me a reason to try to find me in the chasm of darkness, it has given me hope that things can change because I am changing. Without the support I am receiving I wouldn't have as many brighter moments as I do at the moment...and they are growing...and the darkness gets smaller. I know it will take time but finally I realise that I am worth that time, that I have the choice that I felt blinded from before and each day I get stronger and can actually say I am living".

https://www.counsellingsuffolk-norfolk.co.uk/

13/11/2025

02/11/2025

Today is that day!
Are you saving something for a "special occasion"
Well, today is that day :D

21/10/2025

Whatever today holds in store, just having this moment on my walk lifted and grounded me and i hope brings you the same too ###

16/10/2025

A moment to stop and think about the people in your life that you care about

💜I took this picture on my walk this morning whilst reflecting on the situations faced and experienced by survivors of domestic violence on today - Purple Thursday 16th October

16/10/2025

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜 We are proud to sit beside victims everyday while they learn who they are and recover from domestic violence.

16/10/2025

Today is
PURPLE THURSDAY
I will be wearing purple to show support for survivors & to raise awareness about domestic violence

10/10/2025

Particularly on World Mental Health today - this poem means so much x

Today I said “I’m fine”, not once
But five times altogether
When people asked “how are you?”
Then made small talk of the weather

And so I hid behind my mask
The one I’d worn a while
I set in place my bravest face
And dressed it with a smile

And that was how the day went
All “I’m fine” and talk of rain
Until somebody asked me how I was
Then asked again

They asked if I was truly fine
And I said I was not
And they said they were sorry
That they couldn’t do a lot

But then they sat beside me
Whilst I spoke the truth at last
They listened and they held me
As the tears slipped through my mask

And where before, I’d felt I should
Maintain this brave façade,
I realised there was much to gain
By letting down my guard

See, though my load was still the same
It now was not as heavy
‘Cause sitting and offloading it
Had helped a bit already

Today they asked “how are you?”
And I told them I was fine
‘Til someone saw behind the mask
And asked me one more time

And though they may have felt
That there was little they could do
They’ll never know how much it meant
To tell someone the truth

*******

Becky Hemsley 2022
Lovely artwork by Illustrations by Majali

“I’m fine” is from my second collection:
https://a.co/d/hz7kmJs

02/10/2025

For those with the gift of speech, words are powerful ways to communicate our feelings and needs. Yet sometimes we can struggle to align our thoughts with our words or find the 'right' word to truly convey our sense of something. Being consciously aware of our words and mindful of what impact they may have on another person requires us to create a space between thought and action. The Sufi poet, Rumi sums this up beautifully for me with his concept of 3 gates...

Image from blogspot.

25/07/2025