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Resources

Some of these resource pages originated as questions my clients have asked me. Others started life as handouts, others are topics I felt moved to post about after some particular session brought the topic to mind. They are therefore not systematic or comprehensive, but I hope may be of interest.

Films, poems, pop songs with truth

Applies to everyone: Adele’s River Lea

There's a relationship stage where we're afraid: Will the other person love...

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Films, poems, pop songs with truth

Surround me with your love by 3-11 Porter

Fools gold. Surround Me With Your Love by 3-11 Porter sounds like...

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Films, poems, pop songs with truth

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel: Following your inner voice

Joyful, inspired, musically complex, Solsbury Hill is a perfect evocation of the...

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Films, poems, pop songs with truth

The story of a relationship: a silly playlist

A lighthearted relationship story told in pop songs I like. Guaranteed to...

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Stub / Types of therapy

[Stub]Body-based characterology (Reich, Lowen)

Body based characterology is a system of self-understanding based on what goes...

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Films, poems, pop songs with truth

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters. A poem by Portia Nelson

The poem Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson beautifully expresses...

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Films, poems, pop songs with truth

Return to Love. A poem by Marianne Williamson

The famous poem by Marianne Williamson quoted by Nelson Mandela in his...

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Couples / Self-help

Five poetic stages of healing, couples version

The stages of a relationship conflict from unconsciousness to understanding, based on...

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Couples / Self-help

The Red Flag couples self-help exercise

If you both do it, the Red Flag exercise can cut through...

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Couples / Self-help

The best sexual self-help advice for couples – the best!

Simple but helpful sexual self-help advice that can really deepen sexual intimacy...

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Stub / Types of therapy

[Stub]Parts therapies (Voice Dialogue, IFS, Gestalt, Trauma Constellation work, NLP,...

Parts therapy including IFS excerpt text

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Types of therapy

Neo-Reichian bodywork and Bioenergetics

Wilhelm Reich's understanding that pain & trauma form deep muscular tensions led...

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Meditation articles

Going deeper – meditation websites

A few interesting websites on meditation including some less known but excellent...

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Depression

Authentic pain is part of life; depression isn’t

There are many types of depression. One of these is the depressive...

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Self-help

A relaxation technique

This is my version of “the relaxation response”,  a simple way to...

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