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COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING IN PURLEY, CROYDON, EASY REACH OF SUTTON, WALLINGTON, CATERHAM, SOUTH EAST LONDON AND SURREY
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Inspiring Stories, Practical Advice, and Personal Growth
Discover a space where wellness meets inspiration. We’re here to support your mental health and personal development through insightful content and practical guidance. Let Tigris be your companion on the journey to a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Holding Space for What’s Still Unfolding
A reflective piece exploring the quiet power of holding space, for others and for oneself, through presence, vulnerability, and artistic expression. Written for those joining ROA’s journey of emotional unfolding.
Trusting the Process: Why Growth Often Begins in Uncertainty
An evocative reflection on why emotional growth and creative transformation often begin in the unknown. Through therapeutic insight and artistic parallels, this piece invites readers to trust the quiet unfolding of change.
Burnout in Disguise: When Invisible Struggles Wear a Smile
They don’t always look tired. They don’t always sound overwhelmed. They don’t always cry out for help. Sometimes, burnout wears lipstick. Sometimes, it shows up early, takes notes, and smiles through the meeting. Sometimes, it volunteers to stay late. Burnout is not always loud. Sometimes it is the quiet retreat of a once-engaged soul. It’s the therapist who says, “I’m fine” with a practised nod. The student who turns in the essay but hasn’t slept in two nights. The mother who makes three packed lunches and forgets her breakfast. Burnout is what happens when your inner world crumbles and your […]
Practising Discernment in Relationships: Seeing Clearly Without Losing Yourself
Explore insights on self-awareness, emotional resilience, and conscious relationships. Practical tools, reflections, and strategies for personal growth and authentic connection
The Power of Forgiveness – A Step Toward Healing
Forgiveness is not about forgetting, it’s about transforming pain into peace. This short reflection explores how emotional release, especially within relationships, opens the door to healing, resilience, and renewed connection.
The Hidden Friend: Meeting the Shadow with Compassion
We often view our shadow as something to fix or hide, but what if it's a loyal, misunderstood friend? This piece explores how meeting the hidden parts of ourselves with compassion opens a path to wholeness.
Shadow Stories: What We Bury, What We Reclaim
Inside each of us lives a shadow, not just a place for fear or shame, but for forgotten brilliance. This reflective piece examines how our hidden stories shape us and how creativity, honesty, and compassion can bring them into the light.
Reconnecting with the Story Beneath the Surface
A gentle reflection on how past stories shape us, and how we can begin to reconnect with the truer self beneath coping patterns and old beliefs.
Reclaiming the Story Beneath the Surface
A reflective invitation to examine the hidden stories we carry, reconnect with the true self beneath survival roles, and begin gently rewriting the narrative.