Therapy with Flo

16/06/2026

🌟 Broken is Beautiful: The Art of Kintsugi 🌟

Have you ever felt broken by life's challenges?

In Japan, there is a beautiful tradition called Kintsugi. When a bowl breaks, artists do not throw it away. Instead, they glue the pieces back together using lacquer mixed with pure gold. The gold lacquer makes the cracks stand out.

The bowl becomes stronger, more valuable, and more beautiful than it was before it broke. Its history is not hidden—it is celebrated.

Healing in therapy works the same way: Your cracks are not failures. Your scars tell your story. You are unique because of what you survived - it is not about pretending you never hurt.

You are not ruined. You are being beautifully remade.💛

*** Take a deep breath today ***

You are whole, you are strong, and you are worthy ❤️🙌🏻

29/05/2026

🌟New! Menopause Support Group

Hart Voluntary Action is launching a new Menopause Support Group in July, offering a course of 10 sessions facilitated by a qualified counsellor providing support for women going through perimenopause and menopause.

Each week will focus on a different theme related to the emotional aspects of this stage of life.

The group will provide peer support for each other with an emphasis on compassion and respect.
Together, the group will explore the impact this transition can have on mood, identity, relationships, self-esteem, and overall mental health helping you feel heard, validated, and less alone.
To register to attend this group please use this link

Once registered we will contact you to let you know how to make payment and once payment has been received your place on the course will be confirmed.

Venue: Royal Oak Wellbeing Hub, Royal Oak Close, Yateley

Cost: £40 for 10 sessions

Session times: Mondays 19.00 – 20.30 every fortnight starting 20 July to 30 November

For more information please contact [email protected]

Visit https://hartvolaction.org.uk/menopause-group-hart

21/05/2026

❓ Who is and, who has been your inspiration? 🙌🏻

To aspire towards someone is not to emulate them but to grow by integration of the values or the learnings you cherish - but this does not mean we idolise them.

Petruska Clarkson was integral to my counselling training which informs my practice to this day.

A complex and leading figure of psychotherapy, psychology and accomplished author, I found her both inspiring and frustrating in equal measure as I marvelled at her model and as I struggled with her academic style.

She died in 2006 in a hotel in Amsterdam as she had decided ‘she wanted to go home’. Some may say it was a waste, I say that was for her to decide. 🫶🏻

❓Who has been your inspiration? 🙌🏻

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16/05/2026

Keep growing 🪴

09/05/2026

Tiny Buddha

19/04/2026

Sunday, a day to nourish and refuel your soul 🫶🏻

09/04/2026

04/04/2026

Stressed? 😫

Who could imagine we could learn more from snakes 🐍 about managing stress 🤔

As fellow creatures of this beautiful planet the article describes ‘social buffering’, I might describe this in counselling terms as co-regulation but whatever the term, it’s a wonderful way to find the ground in the escalating stressors around us.

I would also add if you can’t find a human🧍 find a tree 🌳 or a pet 🐕 🐈 or maybe even a snake 🐍 🫶🏻😄

Read more from Happiful…

These reptiles might not be your first port-of-call for wellbeing lessons, but research into their behaviour has uncovered a lesson on stress