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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.

07/10/2025

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How to wake up your mind, open your mind, allow creativity in......

Sometimes, we can feel stuck. I'm a great advocate of journalling for stuckness. The creativity involved somehow releasing internal pressures.

There's a science behind this. In studies, it has been proven that free flow mark making enables people to generate more creative solutions, ideas, and thought processes. Those who were tasked with drawing only straight, angular lines found themselves more limited. Less empowered.

Go on, pick up that journal.
Open the page.
See where it takes you....

06/10/2025

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In our busy lives, we can often find ourselves engulfed by physical and mental clutter. To try and overcome these intense feelings of overwhelm, overstimulation, our brains go into overdrive....exacerbating the situation.

To 'help' ourselves, we may lean on endless cups of coffee. Or perhaps a sweet treat.
Very short-term wins with no enduring successes.

Take a moment, breathe. Steady yourself.
Ask yourself this: what do I need?

Therapy can offer that gentle, non judgemental space to really explore this concept of need. Quietly, away from everyday overwhelm.

02/10/2025

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Thinking about the power of the colour blue and the impact it can have on our nervous system is nothing short of exciting. For me anyway.

If you want quick evidence, ask yourself this; would you ever dive into a swimming pool that had been tiled in red rather than blue? A shocking thought! And yet the water would still be water....

Our minds and bodies are calmed by the blue mess of water. When we are immersed, our bodies actually realign our hormones, resulting in a balance similar to when we are mediating or relaxing.

The 'magic' of water.

29/09/2025

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Neurons that fire together wire together.

Simply that. All your positive thoughts and actions really do pay off, creating strong neural pathways. New ways of thinking and being.

This is very much linked to the eudaimonia that I spoke about yesterday. By creating new, positive neural pathways, we can begin to experience the joy in living well.

28/09/2025

Happiness.

What does happiness mean to you?
In his book, Blue Mind, Nichols talks about happiness being "less of a description of a feeling and more a description of the conditions that produce the feeling."

Kind of a 'I was happy when....I am happy when...'

Happiness tends to come in two forms.
The first, experienced in the moment, Aristotle called hedonia. The second, more a longer lasting state of being, is called eudaimonia.

Our overall subjective well-being would usually allow us to declare ourselves happy or not. Potentially the best balance then being eudaimonia with a sprinkling of hedonia.

When you next say to yourself,'I want to be happy', what then does it actually mean to you?

26/09/2025

Blue Mind

In his book, Wallace J. Nichols explores the concept of direct attention and involuntary attention. When we are experiencing involuntary attention, our brains can rest a little and relax from the more focused direct attention.

An example of this may be taking a break from work and going for a walk outside, in nature. We are still thinking, but our brains have the space and opportunity to relax. We get absorbed by our landscape.

Imagine then how quickly my attention stopped being involuntary and switched back to direct attention as I turned a corner on my cliff top walk and came face to face with this!

The floodgates opened immediately all the many who, what, why questions. My brain had flicked a switch.
Isn't neuroplasticity wonderful!!!

25/09/2025

Neuroplasticity.
Our brains are inordinately clever at strengthening the connections, the neural networks, of the things we pay most attention to.
Conversely, the areas of our lives that don't get so much attention, those neural networks become weakened.
The exciting part.....we have this ability to reshape our brains throughout our entire life!

Therapy is a wonderful place to explore what neuroplasticity means to you 💚

23/09/2025

Blue Mind.

Such a great book by Nichols.
I'm looking forward to sharing some thoughts from this over the coming weeks.

20/09/2025

For me, the pivotal word here is 'begins'.

This is not the whole story, but it is where we can begin to rewrite our story. To choose what we want and don't want, allowing our nervous systems to feel regulated. To gently construct boundaries that promote our well-being. To feel safe.

What does your inner peace feel like today? 💚

19/09/2025

What's your relationship with boundaries? Setting boundaries? Maintaining boundaries? They can be tricky to navigate if your go-to position is as a people pleaser. Sometimes, it is worth reminding yourself that boundaries are there to help create a healthy life structure.

Boundaries don't keep people out. They keep the right people in....

17/09/2025

As we grow we look around to others for our social cues, for our ways to behave, respond, and feel. As a young child, our parents may often be the key to building those foundation blocks. How parents are often reflects in how their children are. There is a felt sense, a mirroring of emotions and behaviours.

Moving through childhood to adulthood, imagine the impact if we all choose to conduct ourselves with kindness and integrity. The mirroring effects on those other adults around us would be rather wonderful...

14/09/2025

Philippa Perry has an insightful way of saying something that's important in a beautifully simple way.
And I believe this can be applied equally to therapy.

Part of the therapeutic alliance is to hold the emotions of others, to be the container when the emotions feel difficult, hard or overwhelming. To gently hold those emotions with another person to find meaning.
Indeed, to find one's self.

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Hythe
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+447594917959

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http://seaglasscounselling.com/

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