The word ‘Resource’ (in the name of my practice) is significant. I’m informed that Resource has origins in the Latin ‘to rise again’ and the Old French ‘a source, a spring’, to ‘relieve’ and ‘to recover’. As centuries passed, the word came to mean ‘aid’ and ‘help’ – in times of difficulty, a means of relaxation, or a source of strength, assistance or information. In Core Process Psychotherapy we consider ’Resources’ as internal or external sources of wellbeing. The journey to discover ‘Resources’ is mirrored in Buddhist practice, and my own experience, such that without the mud there grows no lotus, and it is the shadows, difficulties and suffering that allow us to have the fullest experience of clarity, joy and beauty.

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