Elizabeth Sendall Counselling, Relationship Therapy & Clinical Supervision

23/10/2025

Some of my thoughts on boundaries and self-care...

I’ve been in the garden, hunched over flower beds, focused on what I can plant out that will make the flower pots pop with colour when Spring returns next year. It got me thinking about the regularly used metaphor of planting seeds and encouraging growth as an act of emotional self-care.

27/05/2025

This is a brilliant observation of how grief can be disregarded by those unaffected by our personal experience of loss.

07/05/2025

I've given my website a bit of a flick and a dust and beginning the new blog page with an old post from 2019 which still feels very relevant - to me at least..!

As a first blog entry on my new website, I'm cheating - the following is from a piece that I penned back in 2019. It's about my fascination and obsession with books, which remains a habit that is still currently out of hand and evidenced this morning by the arrival of a collaboration of summer ghost...

12/10/2024

An infuriating read, but a necessary one... have we really reached a point where young women are required to provide photographic evidence that they are on their periods?

As one school demands that its pupils provide medical ‘evidence’ of period pain to take sick days, Olivia Petter examines just how damaging this messaging is for young girls

18/08/2024

This...

29/04/2024

This seems to be a theme in the office at the moment, the possibility of creating distraction-free time away from the negative spoon-feeding, and an opportunity to side-step the bull@ #£%... what may change if we gift ourselves this opportunity..? 🙏

The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?
How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind.
To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. ~Matt Haig
(Book: Reasons to Stay Alive https://amzn.to/3wL3orN)

21/10/2023

Love this...

28/01/2023

Beautiful 🙏

16/01/2023

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Each new day is a little bit brighter. In just 10 weeks, the sun will set at 7.30pm.

📷: John Rogers

16/01/2023

Blue Monday? Not when there's these two... 😊

French & Saunders shared a post on Instagram: "“Your family, your family, your family!” Throughout the years…… ...

13/01/2023

Robert Frost, one of my favourite authors. He understood the nature of loss and grief, the seismic enormity of it. When life feels increasingly overwhelming I'm reminded of his philosophy that for all we may not get over it, maybe we can get through it...

Author: Robert Frost