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We are stardust
We are stardust!!

Karen Sole
1 day ago1 min read
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How you are at home is how you are at work
Managers are often not naturally imbued with skills and attributes required for working well and effectively with people they are charged with managing. It becomes an awkward hit and miss affair punctuated by dodgems, deceit, delusions, and ending with anxiety and stress.

Karen Sole
Jun 108 min read
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Another Self. Another Story. Meet Mr Zaman!
'...three women and their somewhat chaotic lives with lovers and mothers and others, we find a Constellation practitioner working in an idyllic Turkish setting.'

Karen Sole
May 65 min read
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Nobody Said It Was Easy. Nobody Said It Would Be So Hard.
How can we better know our parents, their parents and grandparents, and by extrapolation the ones who came before them? Who were they, the dearly loved elders?

Karen Sole
Apr 217 min read
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We Need To Talk About Jamie. And Eddie.
Adolescence, the Netflix series, is loaded with trauma coming down the line, and out of the Andrew Tate poisoned air. And more. I'm picking up on just one aspect of family systems here. Belonging.

Karen Sole
Apr 126 min read
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Your Timeless Story: A Meditation To Connect You With Your Ancestors On Their Land
Stand on the land of your ancestors. Take it in. Feel the influence their place and time has on you now.

Karen Sole
Apr 82 min read
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Complex and Often Conflicting Emotions When Someone We Love Is Dying
'...we can become more resilient and more capable in the face of their imminent death, move through it with more calm and acceptance...'

Karen Sole
Mar 177 min read
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Doing Is Believing: The Skinny On Getting Constellated
'...get to the root source of your unhelpful patterns - yes, even you, you wonderful accomplished person'...

Karen Sole
Mar 75 min read
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Your Ancestors, Their Hangout, and You.
'There are inextricable links between human kinship, our kinship with the land (hangout) of our ancestors, and ...our lives and experiences'

Karen Sole
Jan 285 min read
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Get Curious About Your. Sweet. Self. And Stop Blaming Others For What 'Goes Wrong' .
‘When you throw a stone into a pond, the pond doesn’t know that it ripples.’

Karen Sole
Jan 274 min read
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Taking Constellations to the Community
I'm excited about the series of weekday mid-morning workshops that allow women to do their school drop-offs, maybe have a leisurely...

Karen Sole
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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Collective Trauma Shows Up and Shapes Us
'[(despite) resilience]...the trauma does not just float away. We hold it. We carry it. We embody it. We just may not know it.'

Karen Sole
Aug 7, 20244 min read
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Ready to Try A Different Therapy?
'...change your approach. Family Constellations is a way... without intellectualising, in a supportive and safe environment...'

Karen Sole
Aug 5, 20242 min read
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A Place For Everyone, Everyone In Their Place In Family Systems
'...unacknowledged, shamed and secret members of the family system reverbrate through generations, affecting later members...

Karen Sole
Aug 1, 20243 min read
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How Is It That We Need Therapy?
Our human messiness is inevitable. We do not necessarily notice ... some compassionate intervention would be useful.

Karen Sole
Jul 28, 20242 min read
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Here's The Skinny On Manawa Family Constellations Appointments
replace old, buried, forgotten, unruly hitches in your family system, get fresh perspectives and peace

Karen Sole
Jul 21, 20241 min read
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Way More Grandparents Bringing Up Grandchildren
Therapy can help individuals with the disruption... that occurs in families/whanau and households consisting of first and third generations

Karen Sole
Jul 20, 20243 min read
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Life Is Too Short To Be Cut Off From People We Love
At heart of Family Constellations are belonging, order, and balance. ... cut offs disrupt..causing big emotions ...hard to come back from

Karen Sole
Jul 12, 20242 min read
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When We Feel Enduring Shame For Our Own Actions
...shame do(es) not go away with time. ...in a safe context we need to speak of it, for someone to hear and hold space... without judgement.

Karen Sole
Jun 29, 20243 min read
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