Golowhe Therapy

21/11/2025

As part of Children’s Grief Awareness Week ✨ it feels apt to share Penhaligons Friends’ NEW teens group that will be coming to St Austell in 2026! And I will be helping to facilitate the group too ☺️
This will be a friendly, supportive, monthly group offering a time and space for those journeying through bereavement and loss to connect with others.
⭐️ There will be an open evening on January 21st.
⭐️ Thereafter this will be a closed group that can be accessed via a referral process.

If you know of a young person who might benefit from this, or you think you can volunteer some time to help, do spread the word and get in contact with Penhaligon’s Friends 🙏 🌙 ✨

19/11/2025

New additions to the Your Time and Place therapy room today… 🪴🪴 ☺️ there can be numerous ways we can connect and benefit from nature even when we feel unable to get outside…

Houseplants can be one of these! They are a great antidote to when perhaps getting your dose of nature can feel less obtainable (particularly if weather or reducing daylight is feeling more challenging)…

Some benefits of houseplants include:
🪴 promotes relaxation and restoration
🪴 proven mood enhancer (increases serotonin levels that help us feel good)
🪴 lowers cortisol (stress hormone)
🪴 encourages recovery and healing
🪴 can increase focus and productivity
🪴 improves air quality (purifies and/or neutralises toxins)
🪴 proven physical health aids (studies have shown lowers blood pressure and reduces headaches)
🪴 offers glimmers of joy or hope for the future

Interested in sessions - either indoors or outdoors? Head to the website for more info… 🌙 ✨

17/11/2025

Let the light in… 🌅 Let the light shine… 🌙 ✨

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15/11/2025

With longer darker nights and winter drawing closer, this time of year can be an opportune moment in the seasons to review and refresh self-care habits… ✨ Why? Because as nature is already showing us, slowing down and allowing for rest, repair and recharge is so vital in order to prepare and sustain for the days ahead… ❄️

So what are you self-care habits (or not at all)…? What can you begin to introduce or improve upon to support you through the coming seasons…?
- and always start small to make this more achievable and realistic for you!

Thanks to Carly Wicks Fitness & Nutrition and Wellbeing with Julie for hosting another wonderful wellbeing workshop, and with the particular focus of sleep 💤 - something that I am sure many others will identify can be tricky sometimes when heads can become full and changes in daylight hours still testing us! The essential oils smelt delicious to create our own foot bath salts - which after trying out this evening are going to become part of my winter self-care sustenance 🙏 🫧
Here’s to healthy sleep habits including switching off, stretching out and celebrating sleep… 😴 🌙 ✨

10/11/2025

November… a month that reminds us and invites us to practice saying ‘no’…

No-vember: be okay with saying no if it means you're protecting your peace, boundaries, energy, space, and mind… 🌙 ✨

08/11/2025

Another beautiful day 😊💛🌙✨

08/11/2025

So looking forward to this next weekend! 👇 and this time to be going as a participant instead ☺️ This time of year is a reminder of balance, of caring for self and preparing for the oncoming winter, and of remembering ‘cannot give from an empty cup’… 🙏 🧘 There’s a few spaces left available if you think this is for you too (info on poster 👇). See you there! 🌙 ✨

08/11/2025

“…growing concern that AI chatbots may foster intense and unhealthy relationships with vulnerable users and validate dangerous impulses…”

ChatGPT wrote a woman a su***de note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

05/11/2025

It’s International Stress Awareness Week (and today is National Stress Awareness Day!)… Stress can be defined as ‘the body’s response to feeling under pressure or threatened’ - little bit can be useful, a lot (or sustained) can be detrimental… ⚠️

So what do you do to de-stress? Unwind? Switch off? Relax? Or maybe this feels too far out of your reach at the moment… 🫧 🧘

One that I frequently use (perhaps unsurprisingly to read for some) is being in and with nature… 🍂 In particular it is to take a walk in the outdoors… and even more so if my dog joins me - dogs are great teachers of being ‘in the moment’, remaining present and responding to the here and now… 🐶

A great technique to reduce stress (and anxieties) is the ‘5-4-3-2-1’ which enables grounding, connecting the mind to the body through simple mindfulness - it’s effective because it tells the brain that YOU are in charge (rather than it charging off at 100mph full of thoughts and perhaps overreactions), telling it to focus and calm…

5 - things you can see
4 - things you can feel
3 - things you can hear
2 - things you can smell
1 - thing you can taste

It’s so versatile in that it can be used in the outdoors or indoors… briefly during a commute for example, or in more detail over longer period of time…

Stress. There’s sometimes no avoiding it, however it can be managed for our benefit 🌙✨

03/11/2025

“A professional therapist needs to learn how to manage their own emotional responses in the consulting room; they need to become practised at noticing when and how the patient is avoiding sensitive topics, and critically they need to learn what not to say. Psychotherapy is sometimes dismissed as nothing more than a sort of paid-for friendship, but there is more to it than that…” 👇 🌙 ✨

From psychoanalysis to existential therapy, there’s a bewildering variety of approaches – with one thing in common

01/11/2025

Entering November… ✨ 💀 The beginning of this month has long been associated with remembering the dead (such as Allhallowtide, Dia De Los Mu***os (Day of the Dead), Festival de Barriletes Gigantes)… 🕯️ Regardless of faith or culture, this time of year encourages us to take a moment to reflect or celebrate loved ones lost, perhaps to think or pray about those recently departed, show some form of respect or understanding, and share a memory or experiences of those who have died… ✨

For some, talking about those who have died can feel uncomfortable or unnatural… worried of ‘saying something wrong’ or feeling awkward at what emotions might arise, rather preferring to ignore the ‘elephant in the room’… 🐘 However learning from these festivals (and more recent theories also show this) that by supporting and maintaining healthy and meaningful connections with those who have died is far more supportive in the grieving process, including aiding in acceptance and adjustment… ✨
-it was once common to think bereavement had an end point, closure or time frame. This isn’t actually the case… instead we learn to grow, accommodate or adapt to the grief and those that have died… 🤍🕯️

Entering November when the darkness and stillness is increasing, there can be greater opportunity to pause and remember… to acknowledge how these makes us feel (both then and now)… and to make space for reminiscing of those who are gone and not forgotten… 🌙 ✨

31/10/2025

“Life can be so tricky… treat yourself (and everyone else) with kindness…” 🎃 🌙 ✨

Life can be so tricky. Treat yourself (and everyone else) with kindness 🎃

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