Welcome to our reflections.
Here you’ll find thoughts, insights and quiet invitations from our team – offered to support your journey, deepen understanding, and make space for stillness and connection. Whether you are beginning therapy, working alongside others, or simply seeking meaning, we hope you find something here that gently meets you where you are.
Pyres Of Birds
Imagine this: you are omnipotent and omniscient but deeply flawed by the absence of genuine love. Just because you are so powerful and all-knowing you cannot love, nor be loved freely, and you have feelings about that knowing that to be genuinely, authentically loving
What is this thing called therapy?
So, here we are once more, in a shared space across from one another. Does it feel like I shouldn’t be here? Like I’ll be judged a fraud or an exaggerator? That my troubles are too much to share, for fear of rejection or
Insightfulness
To better know and understand our feelings few would disagree that insightfulness is helpful. But in and of itself insight changes very little. Unconscious, psycho-biologically driven behaviours are not much influenced at all by how much we know about them. Clients and patients make
Duty and Being True to Yourself
Duty. It is an old-fashioned concept. It describes a weird yet familiar combination of feelings somewhere between care for others and care for oneself. It is about doing the right thing. But when someone is unhappy and fighting herself trying not to binge or
Getting Better
Mixed feelings. Patients and clients at The Surrey Centre often admit that they both do and do not want to get better. Both/And! They see this as a fault, as a failing, and too often they feel ashamed of it when actually it is
Binge eating and perfectionism
I’ll start by stating the obvious: eating disorders all exist in relation to the consumption of food. The first persons to give us food, other things being equal, are our mums when we are born and put to the breast. Swiftly moving on (to