Donna Lizelle Counselling and Mediation

13/11/2025

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🌿 Your body always remembers.

Every unspoken word, every swallowed tear, every time you said “I’m fine” when you were breaking inside — your body keeps the score. 🕊️

You can’t outthink or outrun emotional pain. When ignored, it finds new ways to speak — through exhaustion, anxiety, or even illness.

Healing isn’t just about talking; it’s a full-body journey — emotional, spiritual, and physical. The moment you choose to feel what you’ve been avoiding, you begin to release years of silent pain.

So today, pause.
Sit with your feelings. Breathe through the discomfort.
Hold space for your inner child — the one who needed love, safety, and understanding. 💛

Healing starts when you stop running and start feeling. That’s where freedom begins. 🌸

12/11/2025

Counselling facilitates one in finding the hidden voice but most importantly, the courage to persevere and unlock our true potential. To grow and to keep learning.

My services are face to face and online. Sessions are once a week and can range from 60 minutes to 90 minutes. This is your time.

11/11/2025

Guilt... an emotion we all have at some stage in life. Hours spent lying awake at night questioning everything. Instead of following the what ifs down the rabbit hole, use this opportunity to learn and grow. It is not too late to get the outcome you want.

06/11/2025

Can you relate to this? What do you wish people understood about you? Often one's own perception clouds what someone else is trying to say and their experience. How would you like people to show up for you?

05/11/2025

Donna Lizelle Counselling and Mediation

My services include: General Counselling, Trauma Debriefing, Grief Counselling, Couples Counselling, Teen Life Coaching, and Family Mediation.

Invest in yourself, so that you can be the best version for you, for your family and for the future.

03/11/2025

"A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results... a woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships... many times a woman just wants to share her feelings... a husband, thinking he is helping, will offer solutions to her problems..." - Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus by John Gray 1992

This often comes up in couples counselling, where the wife wants to share feelings or discuss something bothering her, and her husband will either want to give her a solution or retreat as soon as he hears there is going to be a discussion. This highlights how men and women are different and choose to tend to their specific needs. Misunderstandings happen due to the miscommunication. Not because your partner does not care, but because the approach is coming from their perspectives.

This is where clarifications need to happen and needs need to be voiced so that they in turn, can be met correctly.

30/10/2025

You can find me on findhelp.co.za

https://findhelp.co.za/general-counsellor/donna-cobern

29/10/2025

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29/10/2025

So often we put limitations on ourselves in how to respond or what we should feel. The power of "and" is empowering.

At Donna Lizelle Counselling and Mediation, we unpack how to give oneself permission to be both good and bad at something. That in your journey, you will be putting in the work, and still have bad days.

Counselling is a space where one has to learn, and relearn while you process your way through whatever storms you are facing.

I can be contacted on 071 352 6812 or donnacounselling.mediation@gmail.com

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21/10/2025

Wishing the matrics of 2025, all the best of luck for their exams.

21/10/2025

We live life in a constant state of being on the go. Yes, time is money, but is that living? Instead, all it is doing is creating an increase in anxiety and being overwhelmed. We need to take 5 minutes every day and just PAUSE! We need to make the time to reflect where we are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We need to stop and just be present in the moment. Something as simple as blowing bubbles, helps reduce anxiety and gets one to focus on their breathing.