Embrace Therapy with Emma Goulding

06/08/2024

13/07/2020

11/07/2020

Black Beauty - Lupita Nyong'o's Speech

Black Lives Matter - Changing our cultural narrative.

The recent Black Lives Matter Movement has refocused our awareness of the need to encourage cultural change on many levels.

One of the ways I believe we can support this, is to help to change the narrative in Western culture. By encouraging more compassion to the experience of black people who have been under represented in many ways and so are less likely to feel accepted by wider society.

I hope on a societal level we can have an increase in compassion, empathy, representation, acceptance and support for black people.

"You can't eat beauty. You can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion. For yourself, and for the people around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul."

https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/Jaxsprats Jaxsprat's Unique Collectibles "If it's unique we have it" http://www.jaxsprats.com This week, Lupita Nyong'o won t...

11/07/2020

Gratitude

Stop and look - just as we did as children.

One thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. Happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down and being grateful.

The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, ...

11/07/2020

What's so funny about Mental Illness?

Funny and insightful urge to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.

Diseases of the body seem to warrant sympathy unlike those of the brain...
Comedian Ruby Wax, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness in a creative and entertaining way!

Diseases of the body garner sympathy, says comedian Ruby Wax -- except those of the brain. Why is that? With dazzling energy and humor, Wax, diagnosed a deca...