Tuula Rasen BACP BPC FPC 

“Individuation is the slow process of tuning in to your authentic self. It takes a lifetime. It requires you to stay open to life so that with each blow or disappointment or mistake, you befriend some new part of yourself that had been unknown or despised by you before. If you go through life tending to your authentic voice and making it your job to learn and accept as much about yourself as you can, you generally wind up being one of those older people who are happy and wise

"There are many things in life we can do nothing about—the circumstances of our childhoods; natural events in our outer worlds; the chaos and catastrophe of illness, accident, loss, and abuse—but there is one thing [many of us] can change. How we interact with our own egos is up to us. We get very little help with this in life. No one really teaches us how to be with ourselves in a constructive way. There is a lot of encouragement in our culture for developing a stronger sens