The Mindful Counsellor

13/10/2025

I love this! If dangerous means ‘I don’t care if my hair looks like a highland cow’ and I can hold my boundaries without worrying what others will think of me for showing up real. But it could also mean forgetful and no energy and hormonally challenged too! Here’s to us ladies!

11/10/2025

Came across this today and really speaks to me… https://open.spotify.com/track/6ArFbpYMCKpk6vsyaQJDxG?si=ClC2xTDtQsuj0ixUClP7EQ it’s lyric is ‘You do not carry this all alone. ‘

I hope it helps release some of your burden to know we share our pain and burdens with other women, past and present. I also believe in the ability of trees shares my burdens well 🙂 ! 🌲 🌳 🌴

Alexandra Blakely · Carry This All · Song · 2024

08/10/2025

Presence and Connection is, for me, a necessary part of therapy… It’s why I started my therapeutic connection women’s circles. Next one starts Nov 5th for six weeks. I love this quote by Hemingway…

Ernest Hemingway once said:
In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. (It’s why I frame the circle as witnessing and listening no need to fix or respond.)

These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much. (Being together in circle receiving and experiencing empathy is very grounding.)

Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.

So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.

Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.

The feedback from Circle 1 was that the women found a bond with the others and themselves that was quite unexpected yet profound…

It would be lovely to include you in my next circle, at Malvern Link. Please get in touch if you’d like to use some ‘me time’! More info: https://www.mymindfulcounsellor.com/womenscircle

07/10/2025

Here's just some of the reasons why I chose Harlech for my Spring 2026 Women's Therapeutic Yin & Tonic Retreat Holiday - March 1st 4 nights £595-£895 depending on room and ensuite etc. Taking deposits now...

🌊 Harlech called to me for its perfect blend of stillness and soul — the local area is slow and friendly allowing space for hearts to relax and open.

🏰 Wandering through Harlech town and its world renowned castle feels like stepping into a storybook, with every stone whispering to the imagination and creativity.

📚 You can't beat reading on the pub patio, in town, wrapped up warm with a snug blanket, wine in hand, overlooking the sweeping greens of the cliffside golf course — peace has a postcode.

🍟 Golden hour and fish & chips on Barmouth beach — barefoot, windswept, and perfectly content. Wild swimming if you are brave!

🌿 The forested river walk in Beddgelert offered a soul-deep calm, surrounded by beautiful mountains, a quirky crafty shop and the best pint in a timeless pub.

🌄 Each trail around Harlech — from the wild hills, to the award winning beach or through the wooded paths — reminds us that retreating into nature is a way of returning to ourselves.

🚗 Even the drive here is a joy: winding roads, laughter in the car, and unforgettable lunch stop-offs that made the journey part of the healing.

🍽️ Seafood at the Black Boy in Caernarfon? Pure celebration — local, fresh, and deeply satisfying in the glow of shared stories after touring the cobbled streets and quirky independent shops or even another castle visit!

🏞️ The silence at sunrise or a picnic of cheese and biscuits and cake on Harlech beach, with nothing but salt air and sea birds, is the kind of moment that changes you.

💖 In every corner of this place — from Dolgellau’s charm to mountain shadows — I always find the kind of connection you can’t schedule in normal life. You may know this is where I retreat off to if not in Scotland, several times a year. I wanted to share it with you too.

Email me or drop me a comment if interested mymindfulcounsellor@gmail.com

07/10/2025

October is my month of winter prep and taking rest.. I’m off on my holiday with my daughter and to see a friend in Durham after. I will check emails on e every few days and will be starting new clients in November on return.

05/10/2025

Nature is awesome! So are friends and connection. SAM Cannon art

04/10/2025

Excited to have filled in the booking form and purchased my 9 sets of yoga props for the ‘Ladies Yin & In’ connection / therapeutic circle today.

Following success of malvern circle 1, circle 2 starts at Malvern Link Reform Church Hall next to Pickersleigh Road on 5th November 10:30-1:30 each week for six weeks. Therapeutic circle + movement medicine + yin yoga + cake + connection oxytocin = healing + calm + laughter…

£250 for six x 3 hour sessions led by me - qualified therapist, mindfulness and yin yoga teacher and supported by assistant cake chef Lyndsey.

Plentiful free parking…
If you want to join or find out more please email mymindfulcounsellor@gmail.com

01/10/2025

Great wisdom but easier said than done so practice with the easier bits… Mindfulness practice (over time) can help you direct your thoughts - at least to a better extent than without the practice I found. Calming your body helps your mind relax too.

28/09/2025

Interesting quote: “To be sane in an insane society is true insanity!” Think it’s Gabor Mate who wrote The Myth of Normal. If the world right now makes you feel like you’re from a different planet, it’s probably a reassuring thing!

26/09/2025

I’m enthralled by Autumn and nature right now… Recently, I saw this guy perform this poem and really wow-Ed me! Hope you are enjoying nature’s power to remind us of simple beautiful things like ‘the colour green’.. Here’s an inspiring poem about the awesomeness of our planet - with a bit of humour.

Rob Auton performs in the Tongue Fu evening, part of Summer Sessions at Grand Junction on Saturday 26 June. https://grandjunction.org.uk/Summer Sessions is a...

24/09/2025

Beautiful… And if you have no energy to be water, rest… rest… rest… breathe and connect back to you. Be water to you…

"When The World Is On Fire"

23/09/2025

Autumn equinox yesterday so enjoy the season shift … but on a less spiritual note…