Warming Rays Psychotherapy

Warming Rays Psychotherapy If you’re ready to take this first step on your journey to feeling better, get in touch with me ☀️

👣💫👣💫👣“The most important part of your journeyis the step you’re taking at this moment.And that’s something to continuous...
17/10/2025

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“The most important part of your journey
is the step you’re taking at this moment.
And that’s something to continuously realise
and practice, because that’s all there ever is.”

Eckhart Tolle

Wise words indeed.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. Much love, N 🧡

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🧠⚡️🧠🌟🧠Often our journeys back to ourselves begin very tentatively. Hope is hidden and appears barely visible, yet it’s h...
15/10/2025

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Often our journeys back to ourselves begin very tentatively. Hope is hidden and appears barely visible, yet it’s hiding, as represented here, within a light of inner knowing buried deep within all the same.

Our way back to ourselves is found within ourselves, and there’s so much beauty in that.

As our brains love repetition, and they are not able to differentiate between something that’s really happening or something that’s imagined, we truly are able to do much of the healing work ourselves, by becoming our own parent to meet all of our unmet needs for ourselves.

Repeating daily affirmations with intention and energy such as this one, and so the experts say, especially this one ‘You Are Enough’ sparks the process of Neurogenesis, which plays a significant role in brain rewiring, especially in areas related to memory and emotional regulation.

This was highlighted just yesterday with a client, working at depth with inner child therapy, where the repetition of loving affirmations brought many repressed memories to the fore.

Words such as ‘You are safe, you are significant, you are loveable, you matter, you are enough.’ Are particularly potent, as very often these are the things we didn’t hear as children.

Loving words said with meaning will help to generate new neurons and enable brand new neural pathways to form to rewrite those old labels we were tarnished with and to change our belief system about who we are, how we see the world and our roles in it.

Offering ourselves this authentic praise, where we truly embody each spoken word, will help to rebuild our self esteem, and even though it’s our own praise we are hearing, it’s just as healing, as our brains can’t tell the difference.

It will feel strange at first, your voice may well be small and frail as you repeat these words at first, reflecting perhaps the vulnerability of the small inner child that is so in need of them.

Your voice will grow along with your self esteem and you will just feel better. So give it a try.

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✨✨ I recently attended an online conference over 3 evenings called Healing Days 2025, featuring experts in the field of ...
13/10/2025

✨✨ I recently attended an online conference over 3 evenings called Healing Days 2025, featuring experts in the field of trauma including Gabor Mate.

One aspect that’s stayed with me is Gabor’s Five Levels theory of compassion, which he also details in his book The Myth of Normal. The theory he imparts, was inspired by one of his own spiritual teachers, A H Almaas who wrote The Diamond Heart series, a mentor whom Gabor learnt much from.

‘Ordinary Human Compassion.’
The 1st level in his theory describes compassion that most of us are capable of at least sometimes. As important as this level is, as it’s the ability to suffer with another in their pain, this compassion isn’t enough to help others or ourselves heal;

‘Compassion Of Understanding.’
Secondly, understanding the ways we are similar to those we are helping, helps us truly connect to another’s suffering. Accepting that no one is different allows us to question honestly within ourselves all the ways we are similar. If we fail to understand another’s suffering, we can’t help them;

‘Compassion Of Recognition.’
Leads on from the former level. When a therapist believes they are the expert and their client is the one with the problems, this creates a barrier. Without accepting we are equal in our humanness, we can’t help our clients;

‘Compassion Of Truth.’
This level is about facing painful realities and questioning what the truth about them really is. Whether as the professional or client, in therapy painful stuff will come up.
Facing this pain with a therapist or supervisor allows us to understand it and come to terms with it;

‘The Compassion Of Possibility.’
This compassion sees the true person underneath the body language, demeanour, behaviours and words we may initially be presented with. Seeing the possibility of who our clients are is seeing them in the way they can’t yet see themselves, which is a gift.

Also to see our own possibilities in this way is practicing self compassion, and to inspire this compassionate way of being towards ourselves in our clients is perhaps the most beautiful gift of all ✨✨




🌱🦋🌱🦋🌱All you have to be within this sacred space is exactly how you are. I’ll meet you each and every time with an open ...
10/10/2025

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All you have to be within this sacred space is exactly how you are. I’ll meet you each and every time with an open heart and mind brimming over with acceptance, a fond regard and a genuine caring.

This is because you matter to me, and most importantly you will feel this as we sit together, as you share your story with me, as I receive your words in whatever form they take, they are always precious as they’re a part of you.

Together we will visit all of those places you’ve kept locked away inside, I’ll follow your lead as you discover, step by step, the way back home to yourself.

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🌟💫🌟💫🌟‘Your magic is your spark. The way you speak about a topic with passion, the people that get to feel your love righ...
08/10/2025

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‘Your magic is your spark. The way you speak about a topic with passion, the people that get to feel your love right from the depths of your soul, the lives you touch as you move throughout the world.

The way you make someone feel heard.
How you say “hello” to the Barista in the morning, the memories friends hold dear of adventures you’ve shared.
You leave magical marks and pieces of you everywhere you go.

Don’t dull the spark that makes you shine. The world needs it to be brighter.’

Em Manuel.

Just a little pick me up on this Wednesday morning. With love from my heart to yours 🧡

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🦢🌿🦢🌿🦢This Cygnet is so sure of his mothers love, trusting she won’t turn him away, despite putting his tired legs before...
06/10/2025

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This Cygnet is so sure of his mothers love, trusting she won’t turn him away, despite putting his tired legs before those of his siblings, growing bold indeed in being loved!

Such a fierce dependability, a strong regard and complete acceptance is also at the heart of every therapeutic relationship I build with my clients.

Being there for them without fail, as that one consistent, unwavering, compassionately kind person, offering to them a safe and honest connection to another, perhaps for the very first time. Being there no matter how they might be feeling, every facet of them warmly received and met with understanding, where I’ll carry them safely for a time, until they find the inner strength and resilience to carry themselves back to shore.

By the same token, an awareness of all that I’m carrying of late has brought me to the realisation of how full my back is getting! So I’m trying to show the support and care towards myself that I would usually show others, to help me truly know that I might be getting too full and at the point of being weighed down with a heavy load.

Checking in with myself in this way makes sure I am able to model to clients the one component that is essential to our reaching optimum mental well being, Self Compassion, which I’ve remembered just lately I must first show to myself, to be able to fully be present for the ones I am already carrying.

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💕🌤️💕🌤️💕The potency of truly being listened to, where all we express is taken in and really heard, is such a potent heali...
03/10/2025

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The potency of truly being listened to, where all we express is taken in and really heard, is such a potent healing quality.

Being affected by what we are hearing and responding with empathy and genuine care, is one of the most important requirements for successful therapy.

There is so much more to listening than just waiting to give your response, it’s about honouring the person with our full attention, connecting to them within their experiences and feeling it all with them.

I listen to my clients with my heart and they don’t even need to be speaking.

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🐚🤍🐚🤍🐚Rumi reminds us that the beauty we hold within our hearts is eternal. Such beauty being more potent than our subjec...
30/09/2025

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Rumi reminds us that the beauty we hold within our hearts is eternal.

Such beauty being more potent than our subjective physical beauty, this being far more unreliable than the beauty within us, sensed by each other and used as a measure of our characters, so we might carry one another within the hearts virtues of compassion, kindness and love.

Rumi reflects how our genuine connection with others and the divinity of our true spiritual essence, can only spring from the heart.

And so this inner beauty we all possess is rooted in sincerity and goodness, only growing stronger in time.

The beauty of our hearts leaves a lasting impact on all of those cradled within, long after they’ve ceased to beat.

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🪻🌲🪻🌲🪻I would describe myself as being a reparative therapist, which means providing my clients with a developmentally ne...
28/09/2025

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I would describe myself as being a reparative therapist, which means providing my clients with a developmentally needed therapeutic relationship to build themselves anew within.

This re-parenting approach provides them with the parental qualities that were sorely missing within their early childhood years, and the safe and trusting relationship we create together, offers to them the best chance to heal from their deep childhood wounds, and by the same token, encourages them to be that parent to themselves.

The phrase above, is something I came up with during one of my darkest life moments, one I re-parented myself with at my lowest point. It brought me peace at that time.

I really hope, if you are struggling to come to terms with a decision you have made in your life, that saying these words to yourself will bring you that soothing, reparative love, like a blanket of peace and acceptance you can wrap yourself within, to also feel much better about that moment in your life.

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🌈✨🌈✨🌈✨Show the world just how amazing you are, allow life’s wisdom to shine through in all that you do.Show those around...
26/09/2025

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Show the world just how amazing you are, allow life’s wisdom to shine through in all that you do.
Show those around you that despite having met life, you are blossoming and it absolutely is safe to be yourself.

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🔺🌈🔺🌈🔺Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was one of the founding Fathers of Humanistic Psychology and his model depicting The Hie...
24/09/2025

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Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was one of the founding Fathers of Humanistic Psychology and his model depicting The Hierarchy of Needs, will no doubt be familiar to many of you, especially those who work in the Mental Health and Teaching professions.

I was introduced to this model very early on in my therapeutic training and it’s since become one of the cornerstones to my own practice, helping to conceptualise the order of importance of all our human needs.

It’s been a support in this way in my private and professional life to help banish any ambiguity that may exist around these essential stages and has been a useful addition to the Psycho-Education I offer my clients, helping them make sense of their individual needs.

The idea being that when needs lower down within the hierarchy are met, the following needs will become our centre of attention. A further explanation is available in the comments.

During the 2nd Covid lockdown, in winter 2020. This concept was introduced to my son James through an unfortunate lived experience he’d had in class at school. Where, missing his break time one day, also running out of time to use the loo, and having to sit in front of an open door (a ventilation policy) he remembers feeling pretty distressed as the teacher shouted at him for not doing his work, dismissing the fact he felt really hungry, freezing cold (this teacher banned the wearing of coats in his class) busting for a wee and distressed.

It wasn’t unknown, granted, for James not to always comply in an academic way, but it took me to later explain Maslow’s model to this teacher, to help him understand why James was literally unable to produce a piece of work for him at that time. It was a disappointing moment and I hoped the teacher would demonstrate this new awareness to other pupils in future.

Do you have an example of how this model has helped you?

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