Nicole Berry Counselling & Therapy Services

23/07/2025

To the highly sensitive person, what you have is a gift, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. The truth is, not everyone experiences the world the way you do. Only a small percentage of people are wired to feel this deeply, to pick up on things others don’t even notice.

You can walk into a room and instantly feel the energy whether it’s tense, warm, or off, without anyone saying a word. You can read emotions in someone’s eyes or hear their mood in the way they say, “I’m fine”, you know when something’s not right. You don’t just notice these things; you feel them, as if they’re happening to you.

This is why you sometimes feel drained or overwhelmed. Your sensitivity means you process everything on a deeper level the good, the bad, and everything in between. But here’s what you need to remember: just because you can feel everyone else’s emotions doesn’t mean you have to carry them. Your empathy is powerful, but it doesn’t mean you’re responsible for fixing or absorbing what isn’t yours.

Trust your intuition it’s rarely wrong.

When the energy feels off, when something or someone doesn’t sit right with you, listen to that feeling. Trust yourself. Always.

22/07/2025

22/07/2025

Sand Therapy with my 8 year old young person was all about preparing for finishing year 3 and saying goodbye to teachers, friends and nurturing positive endings 💓

22/07/2025

This mornings 7.30am walk and talk therapy with a cold water immersion to start my clients working day with focus, clarity and motivation 🙏 💦 🌞

21/07/2025

Our beautiful English Riviera where I am blessed to be able to deliver my outdoor therapies 🙏❤️🙏

17/07/2025

“If your outrage is conditional, if your compassion has a colour, if your understanding evaporates the moment you can't relate—you’re not fooling anyone,” said Bear, pausing for a breath...

“If you’re only kind to some, you’re not kind at all.”

©Tara Shannon

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This one might feel a little harsh to some. And if it does—maybe sit with that for a moment. Because that’s what Rabbit and Bear often do—they offer quiet little provocations. Not to shame or scold, but to ask us to think. To reflect. To feel.

This particular piece is about kindness. True kindness. The kind that doesn’t pick and choose who’s worthy of care based on how closely their life or story mirrors our own.

Bear says it plainly:
“If you're only kind to some, you're not kind at all.”

This wasn’t written in response to any one moment or movement, but in response to many. Over the years, I’ve watched compassion extend to some people but not others, and I’ve heard empathy evaporate when the story got uncomfortable or unfamiliar.

Kindness isn’t a light we flick on and off. It’s who we are when no one is watching. It’s how we show up when it’s hard. It’s what we do when we don’t understand—but we choose to care anyway.

Thank you for being here and for being thoughtful—even when it's not easy.

***It’s also important to remember that kindness doesn’t mean tolerating the intolerable. Intolerance and harm don’t deserve a gentle pass. Sometimes, the kindest thing we can do—for ourselves and for those being hurt—is to speak up. To name what’s happening clearly and factually. That kind of clarity is a form of kindness—especially when it protects or gives voice to others.

14/07/2025

There comes a day, somewhere in the middle of every woman’s life, when Mother Nature herself stands behind us and wraps her arms around our shoulders, whispering

“It’s time.”

“You have taken enough now. It’s time to stop growing up, stop growing older and start growing wiser and wilder.

There are adventures still waiting on you and this time, you will enjoy them with the vision of wisdom and the companionship of hindsight, and you will really let go.

It’s time to stop the madness of comparison and the ridicule of schedule and conformity and start experiencing the joys that a life, free of containment and guilt, can bring.”

She will shake your shoulders gently and remind you that you’ve done your bit. You’ve given too much, cared too much, you’ve suffered too much.

You’ve bought the book, as it were, and worn the t-shirt.

Worse, you’ve worn the chains and carried the weight of a burden far too heavy for your shoulders.

“It’s time” she will say.

“Let it go, really let it go and feel the freedom of the fresh, clean spaces within you. Fill them with discovery, love and laughter. Fill yourself so full you will no longer fear what is ahead and instead you will greet each day with the excitement of a child.”

She will remind you that if you choose to stop caring what other people think of you and instead care what you think of you, you will experience a new era of your life you never dreamed possible.

"It’s time" she will say…

“.. to write the ending, or new beginning, of your own story.”

( ✍️ Donna Ashworth )

11/07/2025

Last night was all about self care. I finished my working day with the most beautiful evening of yoga and a healing soundbath, whilst experiencing the powerful energies of Julys Full Buck Moon on the dramatic headland at Berry Head. 🌒 🌙

Thank you Gemma and Nicola for offering such a special evening, as always 🙏❤️🙏