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January 2014
The Strength of Choice
Embrace Change - by Pamela
About Beverley Pugh

Bev Pugh

"Every joy is gain. And gain is gain, however small." 

- Robert Browning

 

Beverley has been a practicing counsellor for over 30 years. She has worked extensively in Canada, Australia, Japan, and Thailand. Beverley currently has a full-time practice on the North Shore. Beverley has a highly intuitive ability to help people uproot core issues that are holding them back from moving forward to where they want to be in terms of their own self-growth. She works extensively with couples and families and individuals with numerous presenting issues.

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The Strength of Choice

 

diving in "Fear and love: the largest show on Broadway." ~ Anonymous

 

I don't look at my fears as bad. I used to. We can all carry embarrassment, worry, or shame around our fears. Do they make us less than the next person? In fact, all of us at some point may feel we've cornered the market on a certain fear or a feeling of not being good enough. 

 

How do fears show themselves in our life:

  • Co-dependency (depending on a relationship to give us value)
  • Avoidance
  • Addictions
  • Over functioning
  • Under functioning
  • People pleasing
  • Approval seeking
  • I'm not good enough "yet" so I'll try harder
  • and so on...

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This month's guest article is written by Pamela. Pamela has faced her fears, and made some wonderfully positive changes in her life.

Embrace Change - by Pamela

 

changing seasons 2013 was a year of many changes for me. Like a lot of people, I used to fear change  - the fear of the unknown can be utterly paralyzing - but for me, it's the fear that things will remain the same that inspires me to embrace change.

 

I haven't always been fearless. I stayed a long time in an unhappy marriage, repressed and depressed. I spent several years denying an addiction that was slowly killing me. I was living life off of the side of my plate, grasping at scraps instead of enjoying the full meal. Enveloped in shame but projecting an image of perfection. It was exhausting, pretending to be someone that I wasn't. So I looked deep within myself to find out what it was that I was hiding and determined that it was my addiction. It was holding me back from moving forward with my life, making me depressed and causing me so much shame. Read More
I wish you all much personal growth in 2014.
Bev 
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