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Rebecca Cresham Counselling & Psychotherapy

I am an accredited Psychotherapist located in Castlebar, Co.Mayo.

02/06/2025

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This is what dropped in for me today…

“Giving our Power away vs Giving our Love away”

Giving your power away means abandoning yourself over and over. Abandoning your voice, your energy, your truth… you hand it all over, often in exchange for the opposite of whatever your biggest fears are. Most often we don’t even realise we’re doing it. But we feel the void of our missing parts.

We’re being taught that the way to stop giving our power away is by inputting boundaries. And of course that’s true - and sometimes needed - but collectively, imagine a world full of mindless boundaries. It fuels even more separation. This isn’t the way towards collective healing.

Boundaries protect us but they do not heal us.
Healing our relationship to/with Love is what is most important right now.
It’s what we need and it’s what the world needs the most at this time.

So, we must go into relationship with love itself.
Love without any form of attachment to anyone, anyplace or anything else.
We must burrow ourselves into our shadows within it.

What does love mean for us?
What do we do in order to receive love?
How do we betray ourselves and/or others in exchange for it?

Once this relationship begins to heal, you feel it in your bones. Its resonance is like a live wire running through your body and this pulsation of love eventually becomes louder than any distraction outside of yourself.

Nothing else is more important than softening. Opening. Connecting. Staying.

Our relationship with love purifies … it becomes safe.
We become safe. We become safe people for others. We have our own back. We have others backs. We gift love to the most scarcest of places while never abandoning ourselves in the mean time.
Real love would never ask us to do that.
It does not ask for anything in exchange.
It’s always in flow. It is abundant.

~ Through me ~ through you ~ through us ~

Love is not earned.

And if you read this and you don’t believe it, then you need this healing the most. It’s right there inside of you, right behind our attachment to disconnection, it’s just waiting and longing to be revived. To be remembered.

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22/05/2025

Hello, I haven’t known what to post here in a long time. A mixture of not knowing how to show up, what to say, or if I’m even bothered to, being honest. A mirroring of my inner space.

This turbulent world has brought such disillusionment.
It’s changing so fast, as are we. So I found myself pulling back. Confused.

But this withdrawing from… it carries such helplessness and hopelessness.

And I’ll tell you this truth.
The world doesn’t need anymore helplessness.

It needs Love. Embodied. Compassion. Embodied.

Not the body-less love and light kinda love. Not the spiritual bypassing kinda love. And not the let’s regulate ourselves to the point of suppressing our emotions in a new-aged way kinda love either.

We need to shift out of this fear, anger, judgement, division and illusion of separateness that is spreading rampant around the world.

We need Love. Embodied.
That kinda love is rooted on fertile soil. It regenerates. It weaves through the underground of those who chose Mercy. Love. Softness. Openness. Prayer. Art. Song. Dance. Animals. Each other. Community.

So while we may feel this helplessness and not know what to do, recognizing it and stepping out of it is the first step.

The next… ask yourself this…

How can you shift from helplessness to empowerment and do your bit towards healing this imbalance?

What needs healing within yourself? What needs releasing? So we can move more and more towards loving each other - shadows and all!

And, what connects you to love? Volunteer. Donate. Call into a neighbour. Dance. Sing.
Start there.

This is the medicine.

Don’t let them win.

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06/01/2025

I’m back in my therapy room after a nice rest and my heart is content.
I truly didn’t feel like I was returning to “work” today at all. What I felt was that I was returning to “realness”, and my soul was desperately calling for it.

In the shininess of all that is Christmas, I missed the grit of what unfolds in this room.
The places we go. The parts we sit with. The opening. The closing. The titration in between.

I read a beautiful piece recently about befriending loneliness, and a part of me thought, “I can’t share this, how do I tell people who feel alone to befriend the very thing that is causing them such suffering”.

It’s layered you see. And it’s in the unfolding of these layers and parts of ourselves that the concept of befriending the very parts of ourselves that we want to avoid, makes sense to us.

We have somehow come to believe that being okay does not include feelings of grief, sadness, emptiness. We’ve come to believe in a way of being that has a particular form and if we don’t meet it, we’re doing it wrong.

Francis Weller says, “There’s a sacred exchange between grief & aliveness”.

When we feel something, we are alive in it.
And aliveness is what our soul longs for.

The lengths we go to to not feel something “out there” in the world is extraordinary. The rush of adrenaline, sugar kicks or scrolling numbness that we cling to to avoid feeling.

While “in here”, we get to feel it all.
Joy. Love. Sadness. Anger. Overwhelm. Laughter. Heartbreak. Fear. Resistance.
“Directionless-ness”.

And the only thing we meet in facing these emotions. Is ourselves.
Our wounded. Terrified. Hurt. Angry. Selves.
These parts need us to return, to open our hearts back up to them. Reclaim them. Protect them.

So I’m grateful today to be back in the land of unknown where we sit and be and wonder and breathe and hold and feel and heal and remember who we really are.

01/01/2025

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#2025

03/11/2024

In the coolness and the crispness of my evening walk.
They gathered above me.

These moments between the light of day & the darkness of night.
The last dance & call of birds as they make their way to their rest.
The smell of fires beginning to burn in the air as they begin to heat homes and hearts and bellies of our young & old.

The ground oh so magic and alive in autumnal colour yet the trees so sparse now - preparing to sleep.

Holding onto the remaining leaves - waiting for the final push from the breath of Brother Wind before they fall into their slumber.

We are in the middle place.
We’re in the “right now” of it all.

The cauldron of death and rebirth is among us.

This is our time.

Our time to slow, to rest, to withdraw.
To dream. To release.
To turn towards all that matters to us and embrace it during this darkest time of the year.

We are nature.
There is no separation.
Allow it to be your mentor.
Nature is never afraid of losing. Of pulling back.
Of dying away.
For it will be reborn again. Vibrant again. Wild again.

I’m here for it all 🍂 ✨ 🔥

09/09/2024

“Reflections” 🤍

Composed by Rebecca Cresham.

Feat. Bailey 🤣

Where does it bring you?

Let me know 🤲🏽

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06/09/2024

At this moment, I feel content. It’s been a while…
I have this image of a flower after full bloom, how you see them right now outside your window - how they’re just sort of resting in this “in-between space” before the break of winter.

This summer has changed me in so many ways… but more than anything it has asked me to open. My heart closed more than it ever had those months ago. I struggled to feel, even the breath of wind on my face felt empty.

And now I wonder if maybe I needed that retraction, that dying away and closing - to open up anew. With so much gratitude. With less fear of losing. With a greater understanding and capacity to love everyone and everything, because really love is our constant.

No matter the moments in between of heartbreak, fear and loss… love is the thread that is always interwoven. It is the land that we always arrive back to. The interior walls of our soul, which includes the spirit all things - the birds singing, trees, our loved ones here and beyond the veil, music, dance, the reflection on the water… all of the places where you glimpse god, whoever or whatever that means to you. That is where love lives. All of it, has its own inherent spirit.

And so today I give thanks for spirit. For love. For the delicate birdsong around me and the joy of watching them come for their breakfast, the hands holding my cup of tea which are also the hands that held my Dad’s. For my therapy room this morning… my little corner in a world where we so often feel helpless. The place that I can make my difference, the place where I can return to love and service and hold the lantern to help others find theirs.

You try… Look at your own body.
Who are the people that; those arms have held?
Those eyes have seen?
Those lines from that smile, that has shared moments of joy with all the people you have ever loved?
How can you hold the lantern today and alchemise this helplessness back to love?

To the resting.
The in-between space.
To the pause before dusk.
To the opening.
To the closing.
To love x

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30/07/2024

I should probably keep this until it’s finished & perfected but this melody came flowing in last night. And today, a first heavenly Birthday for you Dad… this piece moved with me.

Unfinished, with no name, mistakes, a squeaky peddle and an out of tune F natural at the top end 😂

I’m sure you’ll hear it again when it’s complete and perfected. But for now, it’s as real & as raw as today felt for me.

If a name comes to you - send me it 😉

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02/07/2024

🌸 A New Offering 🌸

“Navigating the Busyness of Life - How to regulate our Nervous System”.

A super affordable, simple & effective course that will easily fit into your day 💞

In todays world, the word “busy” is becoming almost obsolete. Today, we tend to call it “life”.

What happens when we can’t keep up, or worse, we try to?

Have you ever felt like you need a break from your own life, even when things are going really well?

We all feel this sometimes, and when we can’t keep up, we tend to ask the same question?

“What’s wrong with me”?

This course is aimed to teach you that absolutely nothing is wrong with you however, there is something happening inside of you.

Everyone talks about our immune system and how we can protect and boost it, but what about our nervous system?

The pace of todays world is full of unseen forces that can have a significant impact on our lives and the lives of those around us.

So what makes this course different?
Well life is busy, right? That’s the point.

This ‘Beginners course to Mindfulness’ is educative, accessible and to the point.

It includes simple, effective audio and video tools that can easily fit into your day to help calm you and to regulate your nervous system.

Its informative content will teach you how Mindfulness can help to reduce stress, improve mental clarity, and increase overall wellbeing, because knowledge is power.

There are two options as you’ll see from the images and also on my website under, “Online Courses: Learn from me”.

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Any questions, reach out.

Rebecca x

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