Talking therapy Berkshire
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Are you getting your five a day?
We focus a great deal these days on our physical health and what we eat. We often forget what we need to maintain a healthy mind. Here are my proposed five essentials: -
- Balance; your work, study, family, social lives
- Body; diet, sleep, exercise
- Time out; away from screens and demands
- Emotions; time to laugh and cry (people, music, pets, films, books)
- Spirit and creativity; star gazing to poetry to meditation to painting
Kintsugi
Means “joining with gold”, a centuries-old Japanese art represents the idea of embracing the beauty of human flaws.
Recognising your Pig Parent
There is no surprise that children's stories contain evil characters, bent on destruction. We all have a piece of that inside us; from imposter syndrome to self loathing.
Berne and Steiner called this a Pig Parent, our childhood imagination turning negative thoughts into an internal object.
Some can picture it, others simply feel it. Recognising it, verbalising it, drawing it, or turning it into a pumpkin head is one way of seeing it through different eyes.
