The Quiet Room Counselling

25/08/2025

Sometimes love comes back to you in the most visual of ways...

On a neglected table in my garden sat a rather ordinary black flower pot. Covered in the remnants of rainfall, leaves and a little green alga, it has lingered unobtrusively within sight but out of …

21/07/2025

With Faithfulnes by Julian Bartlett -Keates

Trusting yourself to be worthy of the world and the things in it.....

by Julian Bartlett-Keates I read something interesting the other day. Well I didn’t, really. I watched a youtube video.It was about the nature of confidence. Confidence is something we see as an an…

09/06/2025

23/05/2025

Put down your phone.

08/04/2025

Even when you can't find the words to justify...

By Julian Bartlett-Keates A Load-bearing wall is a structural element that supports the weight of what’s above it. It provides needed stability to an entire structure. When a load bearing wall is t…

08/02/2025

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By Julian Bartlett-Keates “I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective”This is a quote from Stephen Fry, someone I admire quite considerably. I believ…

02/10/2024

Want an open opportunity to ask me some questions about relationships?

Would you like to gain a few skills or ideas that will help you in your relationship? Have you wondered about coming to counselling as a couple to strengthen your relationship or for help with conf…

30/12/2023

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
by Emily Dickinson

30/12/2023

We don’t talk about it enough

29/12/2023

Forgiveness means giving up hope for a different past. It means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you still have to live in its city of ruins. And no amount of anger is going to reconstruct that city. You have to do it yourself. ~Heidi Priebe

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(Art: Photograph by Roy DeCarava)