assertiveness, and handling emotions
with Richard Mills, BA, BSc, UKRC RIC Therapist and BACP Accredited Counsellor, CCI Co-counselling Trainer
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Courses in Leeds: using co-counselling for
self-confidence, assertiveness, and handling emotions with Richard Mills, BA, BSc, UKRC RIC Therapist and BACP Accredited Counsellor, CCI Co-counselling Trainer |
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Here’s where co-counselling comes in… If you are very lucky, your parents or caregivers did not ever belittle you in the slightest: that would be the ideal. It is however often the case that parents, even if only in a mild or subtle way, will at some point do or say something that inhibits us. It’s important for our development to know about this rather than deny it. And in a co-counselling session we have a safe space where we can do this exploration without fear of being criticised. |
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Suppose you’re saying: ‘hang on, my parents were great’, or ‘hang on, I love my parents’… If we explore all of our emotions about any of this, which inevitably leads to acknowledging dissatisfactions, however slight, with our parents, it does not mean we do not love them. It is common for people to feel like they are betraying their parents if they admit anger towards them, but actually, anger and love may co-exist. Indeed, I believe that the opposite of love is not anger or hatred, but indifference. And few people are really indifferent to parents. And if you’re saying, ‘I hate my parents, they were worse than useless’… then you may eventually choose to use co-counselling to lessen your hatred and move towards an acceptance of what is or what has been, or even move towards a kind of inner forgiveness, even though you may have no physical conversation with them.
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