Tulip Tree Therapy

21/03/2022

The Autumn series of the Quiet Zone is on again with the first offering at the Hobart Breathing Space this Friday 25th March. A place to find solace and rest, in the midst of an increasingly fast paced and distressing world. All welcome!

Come to The Quiet Zone to find space and solace from everyday life. Helen will play harp, singing bowls and gentle percussion, composed especially for the session. While you are immersed in this sound experience, Kathy will guide you through meditation, mindfulness and breathing. All offered in a ca...

06/10/2021

Tulip Tree Therapy may have been a bit quiet on the socials of late but there has been much happening behind the scenes. Extending an invitation to you to take time out, enter the 'Quiet Zone' and find restorative rest through the beauty of harp music combined with meditation.

The Quiet Zone - Come to a relaxation session with harp and singing bowls. RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26, 6.00 - 7.30pm. Step into the beautiful Hobart Breathing Space, 13b Goulburn Street, Hobart to a sanctuary of calm and relaxation with sound and music. Work with experienced facilitators Helen Morrison (music educator) and Kathy Stephenson (counsellor) to create your own interlude of sound and stillness. Be guided through short mindfulness and breath awareness activities to the sounds of live harp music. Build skills in relaxation to take into your everyday life. Start your weekend in a nurturing, relaxing and supportive environment. Enjoy the perfect combination of harp music paired with guided exercises in breathing and mindfulness. Bookings: trybooking.com/BTZJR $35.00. See you there!

02/04/2020

The sense of restriction and containment from our usual freedoms and contact with loved ones may bring with it a sense of loss and grief. This article offers some useful insights and ideas on how to support yourself and others.
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18/02/2020

Emotions need to be named, validated, and listened to for many reasons. Our emotions need tending too, as over time, not doing so may open the door for chronic anxiety, depression and chronic illness to be ever present in our lives.
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Emotions need to be named, validated, and listened to for many reasons. First and foremost, emotions need tending so we don’t get chronically anxious and/or depressed. As this clever drawing from shows (thank you Mily!), when emotions are ignored, avoided, or buried with defenses like ruminations, isolation, muscular tension, addictions, obsessions, depression, and the like, we feel unwell and cheat ourselves out of maximum wellbeing.

The reason I’m so passionate about the Change Triangle (the best tool/map I’ve come across to work with our emotions and the protective defenses we use to avoid them) is that it’s a guide for emotional awareness. It prompts us to listen to our body to discover our core emotions. Once we sense them physically (emotions live in the body), we can name them. There’s often immediate relief there. Learn more about emotions. You’ll be amazed on what you come to understand about yourself and relieved that there’s much we can do to feel better and thrive in life.

To learn all you need to know about how to safely and productively work with emotions, check out the Change Triangle book: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/537514/

Or visit hilaryjacobshendel.com and the Change Triangle YouTube channel for a multitude of FREE resources.

12/02/2020

Good morning from Tulip Tree Therapy. Hope you find these words on healing helpful.
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30/01/2020

There is a good kind of waiting
which trusts the agents of fermentation.
There is a waiting
which knows that in pulling away
one can more wholly return.
There is the waiting
which prepares oneself,
which anoints and adorns
and makes oneself plump
with readiness for love’s return.
There is a good kind of waiting
which doesn’t put oneself on hold
but rather adds layers to the grandness
of one’s being worthy.
This sweet waiting
for one’s fruits to ripen
doesn’t stumble over itself
to be the first to give
but waits for the giving
to issue at its own graceful pace.

From Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner (BelongingBook.com)

Illustration by T. Dylan Moore

16/01/2020

Some thoughts and reflections on Grief.
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Grief connects us to what we cherish. It is only through that connection that we know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.

07/01/2020

First hello for 2020 from Tulip Tree Therapy with a reflection on goodbyes.
Goodbye to those pursuits and aspirations that disconnect us from self, to others and to all that is 'simple and 'just so' in our lives.
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In the words of 'Open Passages' author Susan Frybort, "Some things are to be tenderly held, saved... treasured and loved for what they were. Then there are things that can clutter up and stuff. I feel vitality again, when I let them go. Lighter. Ready to meet with further callings, other keys, and those tireless dreams..." Check out Susan's Poetry Healing Course. It begins this Tuesday, January 7th! Available to students anywhere in the world... https://www.soulshapinginstitute.com/events/the-poetry-healing-course-2/

28/11/2019

A challenging piece that argues that in this climate of positive psychology and emphasis on HEALING as the ultimate goal, may defeating and unattainable for some. Sometimes the receipt of presence, compassion, comfort and care is a greater gift.
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Not everyone will heal in this lifetime. It’s important that we accept and understand this. The perpetual emphasis on acknowledging and healing trauma is a beautiful thing, but its not for everyone. Because some of us don’t have the capacity to heal. Some can’t even get out of bed, because of the weight of their pain and the complexity of their trauma. Too much has happened, and there is no possibility of transformation. This is very hard to accept in our toxic positivity culture, one where trauma is the new buzz word and where people forget that they are not walking in someone’s else’s shoes. Just because you were able to heal parts of your past, doesn’t mean everyone can heal parts of theirs. We have all lived in a trauma inducing culture. Some of us didn’t make it through in one piece. That’s a fact. And if we can just accept this, and honor and comfort them as they are without any effort to ‘heal’ them, we actually stand a chance of co-creating the kind of trauma-sensitive world that avoids this level of suffering altogether. Because trauma is perpetuated by insensitivity. Our tendency to turn a blind eye to the truth of people’s suffering, to shame them for not healing, to blame it on their karma and their choices, is precisely the dissociative consciousness that perpetuates the trauma cycle. You want to help, but you just make it worse. Better to accept people right where they are. Better to provide comfort to the fallen ones. That alone will heal the world.

22/10/2019

Greetings from Tulip Tree Therapy on such a beautiful sunny day! Some great tips on activating your vagus nerve in the quest to reduce stress and anxiety.
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Stimulation of my vagus nerve has played a key role in the management of my anxiety and mental health over the years.  What exactly is the vagus nerve? The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in your body.

08/10/2019

Good Morning to you all from Tulip Tree Therapy. Be kind to your sleeping heart on this beautiful spring day. www.tuliptreetherapy.com

“Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light, and let it breath.”
Hafiz

Margaret Tarran