Mental Health Support Greater Manchester

03/03/2022

31/01/2022

Time changes everything. Please dont give up. Be kind to yourself, reach out, there are people that do care.

21/01/2022

When your ready

When you are ready, you will set yourself free.

19/01/2022

RELATIONSHIP: THE RUPTURE AND THE REPAIR
First there is the rupture.
And then there is the repair.
Old pain resurfaces, erupting from the depths of our unconscious.
The status quo - our old sense of security and ground and home - shatters into a billion pieces.
We feel disoriented, groundless, scattered, not knowing where to turn.
An old world has crumbled, a new world has not yet formed.
Have we lost each other, my love?
We encounter the strange space of Now, pure presence, raw, birthing us here, unprotected by old dreams, nothing to cling to, nothing to grasp.
Even our outdated concepts of God crumble to dust.
And then, and then - we remember to breathe, and we feel our feet on the ground, and we observe the spinning mind rather than losing ourselves in it.
Our world is out of control but perhaps we are not.
We feel what we feel. Afraid. Angry. Numb. Sad. Lonely. Unsafe. Safe. Whatever. We commit to feeling it fully today, to not dissociating from it this time.
A feeling is just a feeling, not a fact, and presence can hold it, and we are stronger than we know.
We wail, weep, scream, but we are repairing.
We have broken to heal, ruptured to mend, shattered to be whole. Old energies have emerged now to be blessed with love, acceptance, tenderness, forgiveness, understanding.
We can't go back to the way things were. We must let the old security die.
(It was no security for us, anyway.)
We cannot un-see what we have seen. But we can be present with each other, today. And we can take each step consciously now, not automatically, habitually, but mindfully, slowly, with care, with merciful listening and with tenderness and with opening hearts.
We can flush this rupture with awareness. We can stay close in this time of vulnerability.
We cannot go back. But we can go Present. We can go closer to ourselves.
Let us walk this pathless path now, together and alone, with courage and new conviction. For this rupture is only a signpost, a mindfulness bell, and our path of repair is more intelligent that we can fathom now.
We will get through this.
It is written in the stars:
First there is the rupture.
And then there is the repair.
- Jeff Foster

19/01/2022

Lets support that... (-a passage from my book, ‘Hearticulations’)

12/01/2022

Some new numbers here if anyone needs then. Make this year your year, let's slay those demons holding us back! You don't have to suffer in silence.

09/01/2022

You are not a burden.

22/11/2021

Amazing words. Thank you.

RELATIONSHIP: THE RUPTURE AND THE REPAIR

First there is the rupture.
And then there is the repair.

Old pain resurfaces, erupting from the depths of our unconscious.

The status quo - our old sense of security and ground and home - shatters into a billion pieces.

We feel disoriented, groundless, scattered, not knowing where to turn.

An old world has crumbled, a new world has not yet formed.

Have we lost each other, my love?

We encounter the strange space of Now, pure presence, raw, birthing us here, unprotected by old dreams, nothing to cling to, nothing to grasp.

Even our outdated concepts of God crumble to dust.

And then, and then - we remember to breathe, and we feel our feet on the ground, and we observe the spinning mind rather than losing ourselves in it.

Our world is out of control but perhaps we are not.

We feel what we feel. Afraid. Angry. Numb. Sad. Lonely. Unsafe. Safe. Whatever. We commit to feeling it fully today, to not dissociating from it this time.

A feeling is just a feeling, not a fact, and presence can hold it, and we are stronger than we know.

We wail, weep, scream, but we are repairing.

We have broken to heal, ruptured to mend, shattered to be whole. Old energies have emerged now to be blessed with love, acceptance, tenderness, forgiveness, understanding.

We can't go back to the way things were. We must let the old security die.

(It was no security for us, anyway.)

We cannot un-see what we have seen. But we can be present with each other, today. And we can take each step consciously now, not automatically, habitually, but mindfully, slowly, with care, with merciful listening and with tenderness and with opening hearts.

We can flush this rupture with awareness. We can stay close in this time of vulnerability.

We cannot go back. But we can go Present. We can go closer to ourselves.

Let us walk this pathless path now, together and alone, with courage and new conviction. For this rupture is only a signpost, a mindfulness bell, and our path of repair is more intelligent that we can fathom now.

We will get through this.

It is written in the stars:

First there is the rupture.
And then there is the repair.

- Jeff Foster

Image: Alexandr Ivanov