Melanie Bambridge Counselling

Melanie Bambridge Counselling I am a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, accredited with The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, working in private practice. And I am vegan.

I am also a Reiki Practitioner. I like to ramble and muse over life on my page.

Decided to go for a bike ride to Wymondham and back to clear the head. We did a loop and passed Ketts Oak. "The tree is ...
01/03/2026

Decided to go for a bike ride to Wymondham and back to clear the head.

We did a loop and passed Ketts Oak.

"The tree is the traditional location where in 1549 Robert Kett and his brother William addressed a group of men in what was to become Kett's Rebellion. Their grievances concerned the enclosing of the common lands and the rising cost of living. The rebellion failed and several rebels including Robert and William Kett were hanged.

The tree is in poor condition. A split has been filled with cement and the tree is bound with iron bands.[1] In August 2020, Norfolk County Council applied biochar to the roots to improve its health." (Wikipedia)

We then stopped off at Wymondham Garden Centre to buy a spring inspired plant of some sort for my late Mothers birthday and I decided that she'd have agreed with me that some windchimes would be a much loved present this year 😉

This morning I felt sad, contemplative and my limbs felt like lead.

I didn't want to move from my bed and stayed there for a while until I was ready.

After shifting, myself physically and getting some fresh air my mental state has shifted and I am perfectly ok with my emotions keeping an element of sadness.

I really recommend getting out for a walk, or even just sitting with your head out of the window for 15 minutes to ease from one state to another.

This human experience can be very weird at times but it is fluid and we don't stay stuck in one place forever.

When we genuinely invest in doing the work, the work happens. I promise ✨️

I took a selfie with my beautiful daughter who was clocking the miles on her watch but respect that she didn't want it on my social media.

Maiden, Mother, Matriarch.💝
01/03/2026

Maiden, Mother, Matriarch.
💝

There's absolutely no need to over complicate anything.From Substack
01/03/2026

There's absolutely no need to over complicate anything.

From Substack

The perfect Sunday morning view, sitting in bed with a coffee with the sun shining through the trees and into the window...
01/03/2026

The perfect Sunday morning view, sitting in bed with a coffee with the sun shining through the trees and into the window. 🙏

Here are a couple of photos of a lady genuinely smiling and enjoying life after being told her breast cancer had returne...
01/03/2026

Here are a couple of photos of a lady genuinely smiling and enjoying life after being told her breast cancer had returned and was metastatic.

These photos were taken before chemo took all of her hair for the second time and cancer slowly ate away at her until she was the weight of a small child.

They were taken just before and just after her partner left her for someone else.

She told me "It won't be the cancer that kills me but my broken heart."

That beautiful smile is genuine. She had an infectious dirty laugh that made everyone laugh with her.
She had a passion for life and a great sense of humour.

She was multi talented with many things, including her dress making and macrame skills.

She loved learning, whether it was roller skating, the guitar or a new line dance. She made it clear that they danced to "New Country Rock", not old country and then would put a song on and show us the latest dance she'd just learnt.

She was passionate about music and couldn't wait to blast out her new Bose speakers to us, a long time before I'd ever heard of them being a thing.

She loved getting a portable tape player in the 80's and later an I-pad. New gadgets excited her.

She loved gardening, her garden was beautiful and full of shrubs.
And watching the birds and really enjoyed her camera and taking photos.

She was loved by so many people, family, friends, colleagues and customers she greeted and looked after at work.

She was incredibly child like which could be difficult to deal with at times if it was the wounded child who dominated and not the free/playful child. The playful child was fun. She had a zest for life which makes her premature death, that much sadder.

She had the most thoughtful eye for gifts and matched them beautifully to the person she was buying for.

This lady would've been 76 years old today. She died 3 months after turning 65.

This lady was my Mum.

Some of my friends and family members are lucky enough to still have their Mums and I love that for them. If they have a close, mutually respectful relationship with them, it's like gold dust. ✨️

Grief doesn't disappear folks.

There's nothing wrong with us for feeling the loss years later.

I still miss my Mum every single day.

I've got used to us not texting daily now. I've got used to not having her around for advice on cooking or gardening etc but I still feel the hole.

It's a privilege being the Matriarch in my family but it would also have been nice to have had my Mum for a bit longer and to see what she would've been up to over these last 11 years.

She'd probably have bought a drone to play with or something 🙃

An air fryer would've blown her mind 😁

In my work I often invite clients to bring lost loved ones into the Counselling room with a photo, or photos.

We can discover the many facets of the person's character.

There's no need to turn them into an icon but it can help to process unhealed things and to understand the whole person that our family member was.

It's my daughters birthday coming up soon too and yesterday we had a lovely afternoon with my mum's little brother and his family.

She'd have loved that.

Today I will be treating myself to some daffs to remember my mum.

I look in the mirror now and as I age I see her looking back at me, which is kind of weird but also kind of cool.

Rock In Peace Mum ✌️

It takes a while to truly trust.Thanks to Narcissist's Daughter 🙏
28/02/2026

It takes a while to truly trust.

Thanks to Narcissist's Daughter 🙏

From The Review Vista 🙏
28/02/2026

From The Review Vista 🙏

I call myself a relatable therapist. Clients will get snippets of my experiences if I feel they could be relevant to the...
28/02/2026

I call myself a relatable therapist. Clients will get snippets of my experiences if I feel they could be relevant to the work that we're doing.
Not in an "Oooh I know!" kind of way, but in an "I hear you" way.
This is a great representation of safe Counselling from The Counselling Directory.

28/02/2026

Let it be YOU💛

To be well we have to work on every area of our lives.The mind = speaking kindly to ourselves and being our own coach. T...
28/02/2026

To be well we have to work on every area of our lives.

The mind = speaking kindly to ourselves and being our own coach.

The body = feeding it healthy, unprocessed foods and making sure we move regularly.

The spirit = our higher, wiser self. Listening to it, nourishing it with learning new, interesting things and only hanging out with people who nourish our souls.

I've had the week off and have done all of those things. It's essential, to enable me to recharge.

I've walked, I've journalled and had lunch in my garden (only one warm sunny day but what a lovely glimmer of what's to come) I've ridden my bike, I've visited historical sites on my doorstep, I've swam, I've spent quality time with my husband and finished my week off being treated to a delicious lunch and enriching conversation with a lovely friend.

None of the above cost mega bucks.

None of it took me out of my window of tolerance.

None of it involved loads of travelling.

Because of this, I actually felt myself unfolding as the week went on.

Listening to ourselves, nurturing and nourishing is essential to maintain a regulated nervous system.

There will come a day where I physically won't be able to do some of these things.

When we check-in regularly and act on any wonkiness, it can really help us to feel better quicker, before burn out forces us to stop/crash leaving us with zero energy to do anything. 🤷‍♀️

I hope your weekend is peaceful and spent nurturing your mind, body and spirit.

Images from Google and The Alchemist. 🙏

From Substack
27/02/2026

From Substack

"Lollards in Norwich were 15th and 16th-century religious reformers persecuted for heresy, with many burned at "Lollards...
27/02/2026

"Lollards in Norwich were 15th and 16th-century religious reformers persecuted for heresy, with many burned at "Lollards Pit" near Bishop Bridge. Key figures included Thomas Bilney (1531), and Marian martyrs Elizabeth Cooper and Cicely Ormes (1557–1558). The site remains a historic marker of this Protestant dissent." Wikipedia

The Lollards pit pub in Norwich opposite Bishop Bridge.

Still yet to have a drink in this beautiful looking pub.

More of the history of our fine city.

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