Blog Posts from the Surrey Centre
Burning Yearning
My soul is seared with the presence of immanence. I cannot look out or within and not see it like an oasis on fire in the desert. Like my mother and father on their death beds. Like my son lying in the road having
Imagine
Six times a day someone makes you interact with your biggest fear, your phobia: Six times every day, every week, every month. I don’t like being under the ground when I think of the words above, I can feel the tension, I imagine it
Adapting Anxiety
Introversion and extroversion are not about being miserable or cheerful. As a very general description of personality, they simply describe whether a person’s default position is to look inwards, what psychologists with their customary lack of poetic flourish, call ‘inward processing’, or outwards, ie
What is this thing called therapy?
So, here we are once more, in a shared space across from one another. Does it feel like I shouldn’t be here? Like I’ll be judged a fraud or an exaggerator? That my troubles are too much to share, for fear of rejection or
Recovery from an Eating Disorder
Recovering from an eating disorder is not a linear path from suffering straight to recovery. The process takes time, and commitment, to change how an individual thinks about the relationship between food and their body. Throughout the process of recovery, one must not only
Embodied
Please, take a very high, birds-eye view of cause and effect and observe the fit between all the causes and effects below. Then look up into the darkness and light in the vastness of all the skies above, the patterns there too are clear,