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Jane O'Brien

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I am Irish American. Having lived in four different countries I have been settled in London for over 30 years and have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

I have had a long career in personal development facilitating growth and progress for my clients. I studied Psychosynthesis, an approach to psychological health rooted in the work of Freud and developed by Italian psychiatrist, Dr Roberto Assagioli.

I began my training in Psychosynthesis in Dublin in 1983, and continued in London qualifying first as a Counsellor in 1988 at the Institute of Psychosynthesis and later earning a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy from the University of East London in association with the Psychosynthesis Trust. (Formerly Psychosynthesis & Education Tru
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Dancing in the Heart of Life

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Body, Feelings, Mind, Thoughts, Beliefs

I often say that we are born with a body, feelings, mind and Higher Self or Soul and there is no instruction manual about how to manage these apparently diverse capacities and enable them to cooperate with each other.

Let’s look at them individually.  

Your Body

Your body is your vehicle in this life. With it you navigate your world.  You live and breathe, move and act, and it is as if you have a fee

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Looking at Feelings One by One – Sense of Wonder

The feelings that we experience and need to embrace are not simply the negative ones.  We have every right to enjoy the positive ones.If we block and Read more of this blog post »
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“Another way of looking at growth is to think of it like the rings of a tree, which means that each age is ever-present.”
Jane O'Brien, Dancing in the Heart of Life

“When we deny our vulnerability and feeling lost, frightened or hurt, even to ourselves, we live a fragmented and less secure life”
Jane O'Brien

“It is important to me to know that there was a reason for me to be alive because it felt like I was worth something.”
Jane O'Brien

“It is important to me to know that there was a reason for me to be alive because it felt like I was worth something.”
Jane O'Brien

“If you want to regain your feeling of joy and wonder and delight, begin to take care of yourself when you feel frightened, confused or lost as if those feelings are coming from a child within you.”
Jane O'Brien

“Relationship is about being responsive to the needs of the other, but if there is too much expected, as would be the case if we have not learned to care for ourselves, we may be severely disappointed.”
Jane O'Brien

“Another way of looking at growth is to think of it like the rings of a tree, which means that each age is ever-present.”
Jane O'Brien, Dancing in the Heart of Life

“Part of the problem is our elementary idea of what it means to grow and develop through our lives.”
Jane O'Brien

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