Sometimes experienced as an intense place of Personal Consultancy, Rebalancing goes deep and into the darker areas. This phase continues to be with the existing patterns in your life yet the process is more active, directive and doing.
It's a space for exploration: getting to know perceptions, revealing hidden assumptions, challenging negative bias, recognising incongruences.
Rebalancing is perhaps the phase most similar to traditional counselling. It can bring to the surface suppressed emotion and inner conflicts, requesting clarity where there is chaos, confusion or contradictions. It's reparative inner work that asks you to dig deep and explore your shadow aspects.
You'll explore who you think you are (self concept) with who you would you like to be or think you should be (ideal self) and who you really are (real self). Your inner philosopher might come to the fore to answer your existential questions. Insights and shifts in perception gained are likely to have immediate or long-lasting impact as you raise your self-awareness.
"Natalie helped me work through problems I was having at my workplace. She has a wonderful personality and always made me feel safe. There were times when personal issues were having a bigger impact on me than work ones and this would come out in the conversation; she allowed me the space to deal with these in the same manner with the recognition that both spheres of life are intertwined.
She helped me bring clarity to the situation and helped me understand what I could change, considering I had no control over any of the external circumstances or people. She gave me a safe space to explore my thoughts and my aspirations and to understand that I always had options and a choice, even though I didn’t realise it.
I really looked forward to the time with Natalie as it gave me the opportunity to reflect on what I had put into practice and how her methods were bringing about a positive change in the way I was dealing with situations at work. One of the most important things I learned from Natalie was to take out the time to reward myself for all that I have achieved and continue to achieve on a daily basis.
It has been over six months that my sessions with Natalie ended, but I still use the framework of reflecting, exploring what I can do in any given situation and what choices I have."
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