Exploring ‘Relational Hope’
We often use the term ‘low-self esteem’ to describe a tendency not to expect much by way of care from others. This piece explores the lack of ‘relational hope:’ and how we may evolve from it, learning to skillfully bring more of our vulnerability and need to others.
Warm Wanting & The Beauty of Need - (restoring relational hope)
Many of us find it hard to imagine our needs or wants can be a happy thing; we struggle to trust that they might ever be responded to in a way that reaches us.
If we are to restore our abilities to want and to rely, we need to alter our associations with wanting: to embrace its goodness, to understand its’ buoyancy - to begin to experience that our wants can be an invitation or offering rather than a burden…
Re-Kindling Desire in a Responsive World
Many of us find that we forego, too often, our personal needs and desires, even as we respond automatically to those of others. How can we re-kindle our capacity to identify what is most precious to us and to find ways to support it. This piece explores how we can draw on a concept like the Quantum Field to support a re-awakening of our innermost wishes…