Articles

As life tumbles us with a myriad of experiences of which we adjust, try to digest and survive, whilst endeavouring to thriving, a very subtle shift happens. We leave energetically. We stop taking our place, as fully ourselves, right in this moment. I don’t...

26 Apr

Taking Your Place

Brenda Sutherland

Presence, Spirituality, Truth

News

Recently, I added a support system to this website. The new support page is here: https://awakening.com.au/apps/support/ This new system will allow us to monitor tickets & respond to them in order. If you have any issues with the site or just general inquires feel...

01 Mar

New Support Page

Domenic Michael D'Accardo

Uncategorized

This is an all too familiar picture nowadays, one that affects the way we communicate, try to be understood, heard, and connect as well as feel as though we matter. Our disjointed communication lacks the interpersonal facial cues. It also means that we filter...

08 Jan

There is Never a Conflict of Needs, Only Conflict of Solutions!

Brenda Sutherland

Effective Communication, Needs, Non-Violent communication

News

Relationships are like breathing – inhaling and exhaling, closeness and disconnected, receiving and giving, connection and autonomy. “We must be open enough to receive each other” Terry Real Often in couple counselling I witness couples who have simply lost touch with how to...

17 Dec

Bring the Spark Back Challenge

Brenda Sutherland

Couple bubble, Emily Nagoski, Relationships, Secure Functioning, Stan Tatkin, Terry Real

News

Soothing Each Others Nervous System in Relationship by Brenda Sutherland Winter is a time of regrouping, revisioning, renewing as we are asked to go inwards and assess what is working and what is not, at the same time rest. Over the last weeks...

24 Jul

Are You an Island or a Wave?

Brenda Sutherland

Attachment Styles, Relationships

News

An insight into Family Constellations By Brenda Sutherland Maria was distraught. For two weeks now she had been having panic attacks and didn’t know why. She was desperate for them to stop, as they were worsening. This was the reason she h ad found...

17 Feb

I’ll do it for you, even if it costs me my happiness

Brenda Sutherland

News

A Return to Innocence by Brenda Sutherland Take a moment and think of your intimate partner. Become aware of the feelings present. If your experience is wholehearted joy or a quiet stillness then your connection with each other is of deep intimacy. If you...

17 Feb

Meeting in Love

Brenda Sutherland

Uncategorized

Let’s talk about pleasure, sexual pleasure, your sexual pleasure. Let’s explore sexual arousal, passion, erotic desire, fantasies, attraction, sexual impulses and the untamed sexual drive. “No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless untameable landscape of the erotic imagination.” Daphne Merkin...

17 Feb