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How wide is the field? Gestalt therapy, capitalism and the natural world

Steffi Bednarek
by Steffi Bednarek
8635 min read

This article was published in The British Gestalt Journal 2018 Vol. 27 No.2 pp. 8-17

2019-01-11T00:59:18+00:00
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The beauty and the medicine of a broken heart.....

Steffi Bednarek
by Steffi Bednarek
1548 min read

A few years back, when I had just finished reading my 4 year old daughter a bedtime story, she suddenly looked very serious, grabbed my face and said: ‘Mummy I love you sooo much. I don’t ever want to be without you... but you will die before me, won’t you?’ In this moment I felt this tug in my heart that reminded me that our love for each other and the inevitability of heartbreak are intertwined;

2019-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
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How the stories we tell about our life can affect how we live.

Steffi Bednarek
by Steffi Bednarek
420 min read

Somebody once said to me “I wished I could speak another language, one that I have never lied in...”.  I can relate to that wish of being able to start our storytelling afresh; the idea of being able to reinvent who we are by telling  our stories in a different light.

2018-11-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Fear, Love and Relationships

Steffi Bednarek
by Steffi Bednarek
541 min read

Fear can be a trickster that comes in many different guises, sometimes dressed as anxiety, sometimes as anger, shame, obsession, self righteousness, control, depression; in fact anything that stops us being present and connected in the Here and Now

2018-10-09T00:00:00+01:00
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Death Cafes and our relationship to the dead

Steffi Bednarek
by Steffi Bednarek
809 min read

When was the last time you talked about death and your own mortality with your friends? We are bombarded with information about health, beauty and youth every day but where is the place to acknowledge that we all have to die?

2018-01-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Brexit and Psychotherapy

Steffi Bednarek
by Steffi Bednarek
19 min read

This is a link to an article of mine on "Brexit and Psychotherapy', which was published in New Gestalt Voices in 2017.



2017-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
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Steffi Bednarek, Counsellor and Psychotherapist for Brighton and Hove. @ Steffi Bednarek 2018.   Contact Me