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Rowland Counselling
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face-to-face therapy | outside therapy | online therapy.
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Here are my reflections on life and living. I won't tell you what you should do or think. I'll just tell you what I'm learning and what I'm struggling with. Because learning is power and the unspoken is usually what tangles us up.
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Meaning in the Mess
We spend out lives chasing meaning beyond the mess of our lives, but meaning all along is found in that very mess.
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Faith and Fear Conclusion: The Yet Unsaid
I come to the end of this series writing about faith and fear. It’s really been a journey for me in articulating constructively where I...
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Faith & Fear Part V: Chaos
Faith draws us to venture out into the untameable Ocean, trust that we will survive, and participate in its healing flow. The call of the...
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Faith & Fear Part III: Mystery
Faith sees and holds the paradoxes and mystery of reality, seeing through the facades of certainty that cut us off from hope and love....
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A Man's World
We are all worlds Some of us, like the Earth we live on, have the hidden life of a core within, moving the landscape with currents of...
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Men & Sex II: ways forward
In the first blog (Men & Sex 1: what men are taught), I discussed why men can find themselves hurt, frustrated and bewildered when it...
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Men & Sex I: what men are taught
Men can find themselves hurt, frustrated and bewildered when it comes to sex. It can be the source of many struggles in their relational...
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What is Counselling Part 2: A Relational Therapy?
In my previous blog (What is Counselling? ), I argued that: Counselling is much more than a talking therapy, but a relational therapy....
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Faith and Fear Part IV: Our Inner Reality
Living outside of ourselves Many of us, to some degree, have lived our lives outside of ourselves. This may be a natural part of...
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What is Counselling?
What is Counselling? Type in ‘What is counselling?’ to a search engine and you will find that it is called a ‘talking therapy’. The...
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Intimacy: the bear we long for and run from
“It’s a bear! Quick…” So begins the end of the classic children’s story, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: as the family of bear hunters,...
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Living in a forest: why are relationships so difficult?
We’re attracted to someone. We fall in love. Life feels good. And then something starts to happen. Maybe this is when we get married,...
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2020: A Grateful Goodbye
I come to the end of 2020 worn out, disappointed at yet more lockdown and feeling a little let down by, if not angry at, people,...
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Faith and Fear Part II: Death
Death has largely felt irrelevant in my life. At the end of primary school, a close family friend died of cancer. But I was going on a...
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The humble glory of teacups
Tea is a wonderful thing. On the rare occasions when I slow down enough to savour the ritual of its making and sipping, tea seems able...
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Faith and Fear Part I: Stories of Fear and Stories of Faith
Faith recognises and confesses the stories of fear in which we live our lives and that stifle, imprison and oppress, because faith is of...
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Faith and Fear Introduction: Seeking to be Congruent
My faith is the part of me I treasure most. It is life-giving. But it is also the part of me that is most easily drowned out.
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How to put a life together?
There will come times in our lives when we we need to rebuild, or at least re-work, our life. But how do you solve the puzzle of putting...
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Being a Dad of a Newborn Part V: I’m so scared
I hold you as you sleep, your beautiful, chubby, frowny face nestled facing up at me, and part of me feels punctured. I’m scared. You...
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Dad of a newborn Part IV- the rage
Rage is a scary word when it comes to being a dad. It brings to mind a host of violent images of men with women, children and any other...
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