Seeds of Change Counselling and Psychotherapy

12/08/2024

02/08/2023

When the anxiety, the anger, the sadness, the grief, the loneliness, the resentment, the shame, are felt intensely… they can be very scary. They can be experienced as big, spiky, volatile, rageful, and more. The more intense they get, the more we avoid them. And the more we avoid them the more intense they get. Emotions are messages delivered through our bodies and they won’t stop until they’re attended to. In therapy we find ways of getting closer to these scary emotions so that they can be attended to. And once they’re attended to they will not feel so scary anymore. the process

31/07/2023

Being ostracized for having the courage to speak our truth is a recurring theme in therapy.

27/03/2023

I feel so privileged and excited to be on this training this week. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidenced-based psychotherapeutic modality. The idea behind it is that different aspects of our personality take different roles in our internal system and have their own dynamic going just like in a family. These parts sometimes fall into extreme roles and that’s when we start experiencing internal conflict. IFS is about bringing back balance and harmony to our internal system through self-connection.

25/03/2023

The most important relationship of our life is the one we have with ourselves. This was a resonant message from yesterday’s yindulgence class. A true indulgence for the senses comprising of healing yin yoga and sound bath by and reiki by
The perfect space for self-connection and self-love.
This has now become part of how I take care of myself so I can replenish and be at my best for myself, my family and my clients.

11/03/2023

I often get this question from my clients. What’s the point? I can’t change what happened. They’ve got a point. We can’t change the past. What we can do is change the way we relate to it so it doesn’t impact the present day life and relationships in a negative way.

04/03/2023

Love this visual of what happens when we cut off and disconnect from parts of ourselves which we deem to be unacceptable or unbearable. These parts of us carry the darkness but they also carry the light. The only way to access the light again is to embrace and reconnect with the darkness.

After all, without darkness we wouldn’t be able to see the stars.

04/03/2023

This poem read by during Yindulgence has really stuck with me. The perfect ending to a wonderful healing experience combining yin yoga, Tibetan singing bowls and Reiki by Andrea Aley. A treat for the senses and nourishment for the body and the soul🙏

This practice resonates so much with the psychotherapy I practice which revolves around healing through self-connection and self-energy.

07/02/2023

Ideas and beliefs we hold must have helped us survive in the past and we’re very grateful for that. However, they may be getting in the way now that we’re living with different circumstances. Are your ideas and beliefs still serving you in the present?

05/01/2023

Free counselling session tomorrow at 10am in Tooting Bec.
I would like to offer this session to someone in the community. If you're interested please get in touch and give me a brief description of what you need support with at charmaine@seedsofchangepsychotherapy.net
I may not be able to reply to all queries.

06/10/2022

What we don’t process we carry with us. It’s what we sometimes call baggage. And our baggage sometimes breaks out and runs the show behind the curtains. ‘I don’t understand why I behave like that. I don’t like it it I can’t stop myself…’

In therapy we work towards the processing and integration of the baggage. It will always be a part of who we are. But it doesn’t have to run the show.