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Sea Glass Counselling & Personal Therapy

Hello, I'm Ruth Jenkins, a Counsellor based in Hythe, Kent, on the southeast coast of England.

In addition to being an accredited member of the NCS, I have undertaken further training within the field of telephone counselling.

18/12/2025

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How often do you pause and ask yourself why you are doing something? What's your moivation?

With habits there are often cues that prompt action, creating a routine that usually ends in some sort of reward.

Is it hunger (cue) that prompts you to take a 10 minute coffee and biscuits break with a colleague (routine) ?

The reward being the coffee and biscuits.

But if, when you pause and do some internal questioning, you find that the reward is actually connection then the cue becomes solitude, rather than hunger.

By looking at our habits we can start to understand what drives us and what we really need.

17/12/2025

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The philosopher and psychologist William James has written much about habits and the importance of path-making.

He likened habits to the way water carves out channels and fills them. Those channels become deeper, but on occasion the water may cease to flow.

However, once the water begins to flow again, the channels are refilled.

We can return to our habits if we have already done the groundwork.

We all have the power to fill our channels.

08/12/2025

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One of the most important ingredients needed for us to believe in change is having the will to believe.
Habits help create that belief.
Small steps, repeated and revered.

Where will your steps take you today?

04/12/2025

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What we do, how we act, are habits that can be changed. They can be rebuilt to form new habits that serve us in a more fulfilling way.

We can make these changes.

Building new habits, one brick at a time, may be hard at first. However, once the power of habit is grasped, it is then that you can appreciate that all those bricks really did count.

Therapy is a gentle way to explore what habits really mean to you....

03/12/2025

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When we think about peer pressure, for many of us, it has negative connotations of bullying in the school playground from years ago.

In adult life, those weaker social ties can exert a positive force. Peer pressure comes from those in our outer circles. When the stronger ties of close friendships and those weaker ties come together, incredible change can happen.

Not sure? Think Rosa Parks......

Peer pressure, something once perhaps scary, can be a positive in our adult lives.

29/11/2025

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Habits have some assistance, the biggest one possibly being willpower. Once we harness out willpower, we are more focused on the end goal. Our impulses become more regulated, and the habit strengthens.

It's not always easy by any means but kind of magical when all the positivity combines....

24/11/2025

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I'm not going to wax lyrical about Starbucks because of the coffee. Many people will avoid Statbucks and support independent coffee houses. Choice.

However, what is worth waxing lyrical about is the commitment and training that Starbucks invests in each and every employee. By providing exceptional training, baristas are able to put aside personal worries. They have the tools to be focused and disciplined throughout their working day.

Starbucks employees are able to become self-regulated, utilising self-discipline to manage their emotions.

Starbucks have provided their employees with a habit loop. A win win all round.

The positive power of self-regulation....

20/11/2025

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Habits are both powerful, yet fragile.
They are effectual, yet breakable.

A delicate possession which must be cared for and respected.

And like the gossamer threads of a spider's web that connect and intertwine, our habits are woven through the many different areas of lives.....

18/11/2025

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Habits don't ever really disappear. This is why we are able to revert to old 'bad' habits with,what can feel like, relative ease.

However, we have the ability to lay down new patterns of behaviour, new habits. By exercising such neurological control, our new habits can overlay the 'bad' old habits until the new ones become our default position.

We start to form the desired habits and create positive habit loops for ourselves.

This then removes the burden of everyday decision-making because the habit is firmly in place. Our brains experience respite and are able to rest,recharge, and focus on other things.

17/11/2025

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When you decide to make new habits, you begin to make new neurological patterns. Your old habits get overriden by new patterns, new habits. Although the brain activity linked to the old habits is still there, those old impulses are weakened by the new pattern that is emerging.

As you change your habits, you change your brain.....

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+447594917959

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http://seaglasscounselling.com/

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