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Magic Hands : Calm Minds - Counselling, Reiki and Bowen

Whether you are suffering emotional or physical pain, Magic Hands : Calm Minds can help you. Free car parking and accessible.

Counselling helps you conquer depression, anxiety and much more; Bowen therapy relieves physical pain and relaxes you.

23/01/2026

4. Remember when you were single.
You can do life without a partner. You've been single before and survived. There may have been things about that which you missed when you were in a relationship.

💜 Make a list of the things you liked about being single, or that you missed when you weren't.

22/01/2026

3. Remember the s**t stuff.
It's tempting to focus on how wonderful your partner and your relationship were, but there will have been bad times too.

💜 Keeping a sense of realism and perspective around the relationship will help you recover and move on more quickly.

21/01/2026

2. Be kind to yourself.
If your best friend's relationship had broken down you'd be kind to them, support them and help them to stay positive. Extend that same kindness to yourself.

Do things you enjoy, and don't beat yourself up for feeling emotional. Cry. Reach out to your friends for support.

💜 Allow yourself to take things easy for a while. You're hurting.

20/01/2026

1. Feel the feels.
When a relationship breaks down, whether by your choice or not, you can go through a lot of emotions.

💜 Allow yourself to do that; it's natural and normal, and actually helpful too.

Come back tomorrow for tip 2 😊

19/01/2026

'Blue Monday' is a made up thing. You don't have to have a blue day.

Mine might be purple 😉

💜 What kind of Monday have you chosen to have?

16/01/2026

Emotional therapeutic counselling is suitable for a wide variety of emotional issues.

💜 Some clients know that they need help with, for example self-esteem or depression, others aren't really sure what their issues are but know they aren't happy or have difficulties coping in certain situations.

💜 I don't specifically offer support with addiction management or work with those actively using alcohol or drugs as a coping mechanism. However if you are interested in working with me then I'd be happy to meet you for a free, no obligation introductory session to find out more about you and what you need.

💜 If I don't feel I'm the therapist for you then I will try to refer you to someone else who may be more suitable for your particular requirements. I also offer a specialist insomnia treatment.

🗓 If you would like to book some emotional or physical therapy, or have any questions, you can get in touch via email at therapist@magichandscalmminds.co.uk or phone 07974 203480

15/01/2026

I know letting yourself cry is difficult because I used to be a person who didn't cry. I remember thinking that if I cried people would know I was upset.

🤔 That was more about my self-esteem. I didn't want people to think they'd got to me or that I was upset by something they might consider to be trivial. So I would prevent myself from crying because I didn't want people to know I was upset.

💜 Also, people with low self-esteem don't feel they can say that someone has upset them because their feelings aren't as important as the other person's. If I say that what you said to me has upset me, you'll say I shouldn't have done and that means I'm wrong. That's a very unpleasant thing for someone with low self-esteem.

✨ There are lots of reasons why we don't cry and none of them, shock news, none of them are valid. So, big boys do cry, crying is not weak and pathetic, you will stop, and people won't think badly of you and quite frankly if they do, who cares? It's not unprofessional. It's fine. It's a natural human thing that we all do, or we all should do.

💜 So please let yourself cry if the urge comes upon you to do so, You will be glad you did.

14/01/2026

As I said at the beginning of this week, we're given the ability to cry for a reason.

💜 I heard this described recently in a way I really liked. If you cut yourself, you will bleed as you know. One of the reasons you bleed is because it washes any foreign bodies out of the wound as the blood comes out. So your body will allow you to bleed for a short period of time, then it forms a scab and stops it.

✨ Crying is like that but for your soul.

💜 So when your soul is wounded, crying lets that out. It gets rid of all that horribleness that's in there and cleans you. That's what crying is for. It's there as a release.

📌 If you've never been allowed to cry properly, you may not know that you'll stop. You'll start crying, and you might cry for hours. You may sob heartrendingly to the point where you can't breathe, but it will pass.

💜 People who've always swallowed their tears and repressed the urge to cry sometimes fear that if they start crying they will never stop.

💜 You will. It may take you a little while, but you will stop crying because that's what crying does. It gets the emotion out that's prompting you to cry, a bit like emptying a bucket. When the bucket is empty you can't empty it any more. That's what crying is for, it's emptying that emotional bucket. So if you're a person who doesn't cry, please let yourself.

13/01/2026

Quite often when we're small, if we start to cry then our parents will try to stop us.

💜 That might be from a place of love because nobody likes to see someone they care about crying, or it might be from frustration, depending on the circumstances.

💜 You hear people say things like 'Oh cheer up, there's nothing to cry about'.

💜 Or conversely, 'stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about.' Both of which are very unhelpful. If there was nothing to cry about you wouldn't be crying. So it's belittling, it's not true, and it's unhelpful and what it tells us as small children is that crying is not ok.

🤷‍♀️ So we don't cry. As we get older, circumstances arise where we should cry because we're upset, angry, we're frightened, and we don't. We swallow it, we repress that feeling.

💜 I see this in clinic all the time. Clients come in and they're talking about really upsetting things. Their eyes will fill with tears and they'll do this - they'll sniff and that's it, it's gone.

🤔 Why don't they sob their heart out? Because what they're telling me is heartrending. I would cry.

📌 So please do cry when you feel the need. It's very, very healthy.

12/01/2026

Let's talk about crying 😢

🤔 When did you last cry? It might have been yesterday, it might have been 10 minutes ago, it might have been when you were four.

✨ Why does it matter? Well the thing is, crying is given to us for a reason. Like all of our emotions and all of our bodily functions, they have a purpose.

💜 When you're in a situation where that purpose should be fulfilled, then the appropriate thing to do is to let it. But crying, like being angry, it's one of those things that's kind of not ok, is it?

💜 Particularly if you're a woman, in a workplace - 'well it's not very professional'. If a woman bursts into tears in the workplace either she's pre-menstrual or she's just some kind of floopie idiot.

💜 Most of us repress any urge to cry that we have, particularly in the workplace. Now that's not entirely a bad thing. We don't necessarily want everyone sobbing their hearts out in the middle of the office or the shop.

💜 But that belief ends up leaking out into all other areas of our lives. So we don't just not cry at work, we don't cry at all.

💜 Again - this is perhaps slightly more stereotypical now than it used to be - boys don't cry. So men often feel that if they cry it's because they're weak and pathetic. Nobody wants to feel like that so they don't do it.

✨ Come back tomorrow for more on crying and why it is actually a good thing to do.

09/01/2026

Would you like to find out a bit more about the counselling services I offer?

Take a look over on my website and please get in touch if you have any questions or want to book some time with me 💜

08/01/2026

All of my treatments are based on what you need today.

I draw on recognised tools and techniques, but I don't use off-the-shelf or pre-bought programs.

I adapt my plans as I work, based on your responses 💜

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Coleford
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Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 7pm
Wednesday	11am - 8pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm

Website

http://magichandscalmminds.com/

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What is Bowen Therapy?

1916 - Tom Bowen in Victoria, Australia devised a system of gentle, remedial therapy using rolling-type moves over a number of location points on the body to correct disturbances, areas that are blocked, injured or undergoing changes to posture. It is non-invasive and completely safe.

This soft tissue remedial treatment sets about restoring the body’s innate ability to heal itself.

When I conduct a session, I carry out a number of Bowen moves over specific points on the surface of the body and then I stop temporarily, allowing you to rest and for your body to process the information it has just received. These pauses are a unique and fundamental part of each treatment.

Each treatment is deeply relaxing as areas of the body begin to release unwanted tension and stress and the client leaves feeling relaxed, free of discomfort and with an increased sense of well-being and energy. There is usually a minimum of 3 treatments 5-10 days apart then maintenance treatments as and when necessary. Treatments are given either seated or on a massage table with plenty of support.