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February is the month dedicated to demonstrate your love for another symbolized by Valentines day.

Love an essential need for humanity. We all need to believe that we are loved and lovable.

We take our first breath and begin life with confidence and innocence.  Love in that moment not questioned.  When you look at you today can you make statements like I am completely loved and I am completely lovable?

I am reminded of a book written by Deepak  Chopra – the Path to Love.  He explores how our hearts have lost their centre and why love so often falls short of filling a deep aching need within us.  He talks about rediscovering the love we long for, rich meaningful, lasting by replacing the missing element spirituality

ISBN 0 7126 0880 x

Love is meant to heal

Love is meant to renew

Love is meant to make us safe

Love is meant to inspire us with its power

love is meant to make us certain,without doubt

Love is meant to oust all fear

Love is meant to unveil immortality

Love is meant to bring peace

Love is meant to harmonize differences

Love is meant to bring us closer to God

Deepak encourages us to write down what we want from Love.  What do I want from Love ?

Love is meant to Heal: I want to heal the pain caused by my parents neglect

Love is meant to renew: I want to have a renewed energy in my relationships and feel energised by my work

Love is meant to inspire us: I want to express love when I feel it and not give in to anger and fear.

A great example of this is the free expression of love between me and my 5 yr old .We express our love for each other daily  . She writes me love letters all the time  the latest thanking me for a gift  she always draws lots of hearts and kisses this makes me certain without doubt,renews me and brings me peace , she is my valentine:)

Please support Northorpe Hall Charitable Trust to continue to offer a valued service to Young people across Kirklees

I’ve started an online campaign to get people to show their support for the counselling service and protect it from the cuts.  It uses iPetitions.  Please pass it on to anyone and everyone who might support it.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/youthcounsellingnorthorpe/

Please sign this petition.

If you are able to put a few comments in – perhaps saying what difference the service has made to you or someone you know, that would be great.  Please also say how you know of the service.

Tom Taylor
Director, Northorpe Hall Trust

Direct line: 01924 481555     Mob: 07760753095     Office Tel: 01924 492183     Fax: 01924 492034
Northorpe Hall, 53 Northorpe Lane, Mirfield, WF14 0QL
www.northorpehall.co.uk
Registered charity 241856.

Here we are again the beginning of another year . A question always asked what are your resolutions for this New year?  What promises do you make to yourself and how do you strive to achieve them?

I am very aware a year has passed since my friend and colleague Kate died but yet it seems like a blink of an eye .  Concept of time is in the eye of the beholder .

I am sure for some the year will have dragged itself out,  for others time will have stood still and for others time  will have run out before managing to achieve what was set out towards.

I am conscious that for me in knowing people whose  lives that have ended prematurely and those that are currently in the beginning of their personal journey after  learning that their life is to be cut short makes me acknowledge that the majority of us trust that we will live till we are old and it is only when those in our inner circles are effected by sudden death or terminal illness that we stand back and wobble as we come to terms with our own mortality.

The impact for me is to ask what is really important to me? and what do I need to do? what needs to be in place ?  My realization that I miss out on so much that is happening in the moment by rushing past it to strive to be more or to constantly analyse what has gone to see how I may do it different in the future  but yet what does that look like and how will I know when I am there and what if I don’t get the opportunity as my life ends early  all the while missing out on know .

Then I get back to trusting that I will be ok and my resolution is to be in the moment more and to have those dreams that spur me forward  but not get lost in the planning but to have them as a light to guide me.  Finding the balance between self care and giving to others .To ask for my needs to be met and not be afraid to take measured  risks.

What does 2011 mean for you?

How can you make it count?

What do you hope for?

How do you steer yourself towards that place ?

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Art Matters

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• Chemo Patience! A file of 30+ live drawings done whilst awaiting chemo.

Dream Matters
An opportunity to talk about dreams, there impact and what they mean for you

• Living with Aliens!- A dream described and reflected upon
• Connections between emotions and dreams- vital for mental health

Health Matters

Have you health issues you are struggling with?

A Journal of my Journey through Chemo

• Facing up to what is
• Dark Angels
• Stained Glass Mosaic
• Awaiting the Un-Known
• Ten past Midnight
• Walking without Pity
• Awareness of Choice
• Butterfly alights on Thistle
• Inhabiting my Space
• Listening to you
• Learning not to be afraid of Fear
• Meeting me where I am
• Falling in Love?
• An ‘Alive Being’?

Narrative Matters


The story of our lives …

• Quilt of Holes
• Unravelled
• Unravelling the ‘Shoulds and Oughts’

News

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• Side effects of chemo

Poetry

Sharing poems with comments that move you, whether written by you or another.

• Anger
• Dancing with God
• Silence

Relationship Matters

Examining our relationships

• Living with Aliens -Looking at the sense of self and relationships with others
• Inside Out!-Self analysis the impact of external factors upon identity and function
• Frog speaks out- dialogue between internal and external states

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• Uploading Images

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