The Bloom Sessions: You’re Invited! 🌱🌷

Hi friends,

Happy New Year!

It’s been such a pleasure writing this newsletter for you for the last year. It means so much that you enjoy reading my posts! I guess you’re here because, like me, you are on the path of self-acceptance, self-awareness and emotional well-being. This can be challenging though, so I’m adding a new weekly feature to my publication, The Bloom Sessions! 🌱🌷

In this post, I’ll outline what The Bloom Sessions are, how they will help you and why it matters!

“This is absolutely wonderful! It reinforces and echoes exactly the things that my awesome therapist says to me too! So sensible, helpful, down to earth, actionable! Thank you so much and I am going right now to subscribe!” Linn

You are Invited to The Bloom Sessions!

You’ll know by now that looking after our mental health takes a bit of effort in our modern world, just like looking after our bodies, homes and relationships. If we aren’t aware of our unchecked thoughts, outdated patterns, and unexplored emotions, and how they may be shaping our lives - we can end up confused and suffering.

Life can be tough, so this work is necessary and beautiful, not to mention illuminating and fun! Encountering and living life from our true self brings satisfaction, acceptance and meaning.

It’s natural for us humans to want to grow, and also to protect ourselves. Most of our issues stem from the adaptations we make as we protect our precious sense of self in difficult circumstances, relationships and environments we have lived through. The protective mechanism can hinder us if it is over-protective, misaligned or outdated. It is often this, as well as gaps in our psyches, that can cause anxiety, low mood, keeping ourselves small, hiding, clinging to the same old patterns, confusing emotions, and so many more processes that may not serve us.

When we connect with ourselves in curiosity, we encounter the vibrant beauty of our light, our life force. This can even feel exhilarating. Eep! ✨

I’ll guide you in self-directed explorations of your thoughts and feelings with honesty, compassion, and curiosity. And I’ll cheer you on from the other side of these words.

“Thank you for these wise words. I am going on a self discovery journey, just changed career but not sure I have made the right choice, and peri-menopause also isn’t helping. Your writing encourages me to carry on learning about myself and finding my light bulb moments. Thank you.” Yean

Tending Your Garden 🌱

Did you ever read or watch the secret garden? When we come across an old gnarly secret doorway we may feel apprehension about what is behind it. Perhaps a sliver of courage and curiosity allows us to creak the door open, and we discover more than we imagined. What’s inside isn’t something to fear, but something beautiful - because it’s you! Bear with me…

Some parts of our garden are overgrown and need pruning or weeding. Others need water, and sunshine, new soil and food. We can explore and discover what’s there, gorgeous flowers, glades, waterfalls - lost treasures of our own minds.

We can weed anything we don’t want, unhelpful patterns, old stories, limiting beliefs, out of date emotional responses and thoughts. We can clear it and bring it to life, discover it’s beauty and plant new things, like courage, confidence, healing and meaning. We will water and tend, until our garden blooms!

Our garden can then stay strong through storms, through winter, through droughts, and everything in between.

Thanks for bearing with me through the analogy!

“Thank you so much Kate this was incredibly powerful for me.” Rosine

The Bloom Sessions 🌱🌷

* Friday posts to use as self-directed sessions to gently explore your inner world in a way that can lead to healing, change, and personal growth. (3/4 Fridays with a review/catch up/action week, and I’ll break for school holidays).

* Until Easter for now, and if you enjoy it, I’d love to continue!

* I’ll create and share transformative therapeutic journaling and self-discovery exercises around topics often explored in therapy to create psychological shifts. You can uncover and release hidden patterns that could be harming you, challenge limiting beliefs that hold you back, and gain clarity so you can bloom into yourself.

* An anchor to give yourself a routine for illuminating self-discovery work, around 20-40 minutes a week in the quiet comfort of home.

* Suggest topics that are true for you so I can include them.

* You aren’t alone! Join in the confidential comments to share progress, get accountability and ask me anything. I’ll be there!

* You’ll finish each Bloom Session with a shift, an insight and an action plan.

Over time, you can reframe your struggles, build resilience, and unlock new perspectives, empowering yourself to make meaningful changes. Or maybe you need to come home to yourself, change can mean acceptance and release. Either way, you’ll feel more congruent, more authentic, more accepting, more free to bloom into your true self.

“As I came to the end of regular therapy, I knew I would need a little scaffolding around me, and feel that’s just what you give me. So thank you. For being brave, consistent and supportive to me. I am very grateful.” Vanessa

The Bloom Sessions will help to:

* Challenge negative thoughts

* Break through limiting beliefs 

* Build resilience

* Grow self worth

* Improve mood 

* Embrace our imperfect selves

* Lessen anxiety 

* Integrate our shadow side

* Align our actions with our hopes and dreams

* Gain clarity in all our choices

The gentle work we can do also has a ripple effect across our loved ones and communities too. As you bloom, you give others permission to do the same. And we can all move forward together!

“Thank you Kate. So glad I came back to your membership. I was feeling lost for a while.” Clare

About me

I’m Kate, a psychotherapist and counsellor in the UK, with a Professional Diploma in therapeutic counselling, a MSc in Contemporary Gestalt Psychotherapy, a Certificate in couples counselling and in counselling young people. I worked with clients of all ages for about 16 years, and witnessed first hand the power of this type of enquiry, and the transformation it can bring. I draw on this work to create these sessions for you to use in this gentle, self-directed work.

So I hope you’ll become a paid member if you haven’t already, and join me on Fridays. Start with the new year journaling sessions below, or I’ll see you next week. If you want to stay a free subscriber you are welcome, I’ll still be writing some posts for you too.

Let’s make 2025 your year to bloom!

Thanks for being here! With love and gratitude,

Kate

You’re welcome here, whatever has happened, wherever and whoever you are! If you are distressed, or find this kind of reflective work upsetting, you might do better with the human closeness of one to one therapy. Ask your your doctor, Or search here if you are in the UK.

“I’m so glad to have found you on here… you have inspired and helped me in so many wonderful ways. Thank you for all that you do.” Eva

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