Our Blog: Information for Transformation

We all aim for a happy and healthy life. The word ‘health’ does not only refer to physical fitness but also includes mental and emotional well-being. You should be able to control and regulate the conflicts between your desires and the actual events in your life. You have to identify your emotions and shape the way you react to them. However, it is challenging for many of us to understand our mental processes and in difficult situations, you may struggle with depression and anxiety. Though your family can support you, they might not always have a viable solution. Therapists and counselors, on the contrary, are trained and better equipped to help you here. At Betty Stockley Counselling, you can get assistance for yourself, your family and children

God, help me to understand myself

Help me to be gentle with myself
To understand myself
To probe deep within my inner being
To face my fear until I understand its origin
To be honest with myself
To face the lightness within
To face the darkness within my soul.

Conflict

War Zone
Two countries at war,
Caring not, who gets caught
In the crossfire
Of their discontent;
In the ever accelerating noise
Of their sharp barbed tongues.

The Dance of Love

Your body joins my body
In a Dance of Love -
A dance as old
As the world itself.

I look at my mother’s hands;

Hands that hold love incarnate;
Hands of healing;
Hands of safety;
Hands of strength and encouragement
Maternal hands.

My son, my heart aches for you.

I feel your pain
I see your anger
I hear your arguments
But, I don’t know how to reach you.

Create your space

To welcome you
With what you need
For your physical, emotional
And spiritual well-being.

Come, My Beloved,

Take my hand.
Let us walk, together,
On a voyage of exploration
Through this - our home.
Let us, within our house -
Within our sanctuary,
Engage, jointly,
In the creation of a sacred place -
A place of resolution
Of reconciliation
Of healing
Of re-connectedness.

I hold in my hand

A book
A book you gave me
The night before surgery
A night when you were afraid for me.

I’m afraid to get too close. 

I’m terrified 

That I’ll be hurt - 

Hurt, yet again. 

I’m Afraid of Intimacy.

We complain about the trauma in our lives. We cry, as well we might, over the tragedies and misfortunes that have seemingly followed us through life – the bad marriage, the failed business, the troubled children, the poor communication with our families and with our peers, etc.

In our highly technological society, in order to obtain a job we must engage in years of formalized training. We must continue life-long training, updating our skills to maintain a level of expertise that will allow us to continue to compete in the job market.

Two people meet and fall in love. Time passes and then, one day, he takes her to a special place and surprises her. Their special place could be a park, a restaurant, a room in one of their homes, some landmark place in their city, etc.

He asks her to marry him. She says “yes’ and a beautiful ring is placed on her finger.

Her eyes sparkle, her face glows. Yes, the ring sparkles too, but no diamond could ever outshine the beauty or the luminosity of her face. Her happiness shines from within, illuminating her whole being, spreading outward to touch those who love her.

Stress is at an all-time high in our work places and in our homes.

We are fearful of losing our jobs as companies downsize or move the majority of their operations off-shore.

Businesses are expecting many of us to spend longer and longer hours at work and to take work home with us. We oblige them. Often we spend our evenings responding to that inner compulsion to do what we perceive to be our duty – to formulate our replies to the multitudinous emails.