Caercaveral Counselling and Pyschotherapy

24/12/2023

30/05/2023

This is what we do in our sessions,bit by bit,one step at a time after we have done the groundwork.
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20/05/2023

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! YOU MAY WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT ❤️
Not only are these words true theatre, they also act as sound advice ❤️

my brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another

- instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week

and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so,

lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut

who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away

"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

~ John Roedel

02/05/2023

I’m offering 6 zoom sessions for £180 during May nd June.
Please feel free to message me or call [email protected]

27/10/2022

Some people need to learn this. B

27/10/2022

27/10/2022

Therapy can offer you a safe, confidential space to speak to a trained professional about how you're feeling, your worries, difficult events or experiences. 💜

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24/10/2022

Politically and economically there has been so much change recently. That creates insecurity emotionally and yes physically. How are we going to make ends meet. What’s important to us,how do I cope. What about Christmas.
It’s ok to not feel ok, to acknowledge that the ground we stand on doesn’t feel stable.
To reach out and talk about it.
A counsellor can’t change what’s happening, but we can help you change how you view things and manage these feelings.

24/10/2022

I am a BACP member and feel so strongly that help should be available when needed. Don’t be afraid to reach out.

To mark , we're sharing some stats from our 2022 Public Perceptions Survey to show how .

15/10/2022

Being out in nature is for me very grounding and as I relax into it,I find I relate to what I see before me. I walked along a bridle way this week ,fallen leaves of all shades on the ground and around me, and I felt cocooned and safe enclosed by the trees and plants seeing the path stretching away before me. I couldn’t see round the corner, but I knew it was there as I put one foot in front of the other. I had to trust.

09/10/2022

It is so good to connect to nature and there is always something that catches attention and reminds us of our own ‘stuff’.
I love working with clients outside,it is liberating but also feels safe talking about things in this open environment.
Contact me if you want to talk further and maybe make an appointment.
Michelle Woodburn on BACP therapists guide, I have dual location of Plymouth and also Mold in North Wales.