(Time to read: ~ 2 minutes) I first read Eugene Gendlin’s book “Focusing” over 20 years ago. I felt enormous relief at being encouraged to honour the body-based, non-cognitive “knowing” I had been in touch with since I was a child. As a result, I have integrated that energy with my logical, left-brain thinking in […]
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The Blue Suitcase (Focusing Practice)
(Time to read: ~3 minutes) I’ve just started taking an Inner Relationship Focusing course, and I had my first practice session this afternoon. I first learned about this body-led practice over 20 years ago, by reading Eugene Gendlin’s book “Focusing”. I immediately felt enormous joy and relief at the encouragement to trust my “body-knowing”, even […]

“...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.”
― Mary Oliver