Meredith Fuller & Brian Walsh PL in Caulfield, Victoria, Australia | Performance & event venue

Meredith Fuller & Brian Walsh PL

Locality: Caulfield, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9532 9988

Address: 427 Glen Eira Road 3161 Caulfield, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.meredithfuller.com.au

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25.01.2022 The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response. Your I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it all myself conditioning is a survival tactic. An...d you needed it to shield your heart from abuse, neglect, betrayal, and disappointment from those who could not or would not be there for you. From the parent who was absent and abandoned you by choice or the parent who was never home from working three jobs to feed and house you. From the lovers who offered sexual intimacy but never offered a safe haven that honored your heart. From the friendships and family who ALWAYS took more than they ever gave. From all the situations when someone told you we’re in this together or I got you then abandoned you, leaving you to pick up the pieces when shit got real, leaving you to handle your part and their part, too. From all the lies and all the betrayals. You learned along the way that you just couldn’t really trust people. Or that you could trust people, but only up to a certain point. Extreme-independence IS. A. TRUST. ISSUE. You learnt: if I don’t put myself in a situation where I rely on someone, I won’t have to be disappointed when they don’t show up for me, or when they drop the ball... because they will ALWAYS drop the ball EVENTUALLY right? You may even have been intentionally taught this protection strategy by generations of hurt ancestors who came before you. Extreme-independence is a preemptive strike against heartbreak. So, you don’t trust anyone. And you don’t trust yourself, either, to choose people. To trust is to hope, to trust is to be vulnerable. Never again, you vow. But no matter how you dress it up and display it proudly to make it seem like this level of independence is what you always wanted to be, in truth it’s your wounded, scarred, broken heart behind a protective brick wall. Impenetrable. Nothing gets in. No hurt gets in. But no love gets in either. Fortresses and armor are for those in battle, or who believe the battle is coming. It’s a trauma response. The good news is trauma that is acknowledged is trauma that can be healed. You are worthy of having support. You are worthy of having true partnership. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of having your heart held. You are worthy to be adored. You are worthy to be cherished. You are worthy to have someone say, You rest. I got this. And actually deliver on that promise. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy. You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to prove it. You don’t have to bargain for it. You don’t have to beg for it. You are worthy. WORTHY. Simply because you exist. -Jamila White, @inspiredjamila Coyote Phoenix

22.01.2022 We're presenting a ZOOM event for AusAPT 3 Dec at 6.30pm about "The Influence of Your Family Tree on who you fall in love with" We did this quick i/v about the topic with Joshua Knight, FYI

21.01.2022 The Australian Psychological Society - new options for orgs

21.01.2022 The anima is the archetype of life itself. - C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, CW 9i, par. 66. A man perceives femininity in an actual... woman through the aspects of his inner woman, Anima. Jung described four distinct levels of anima development. Eve, Helen, Mary, and Sophia are personified soul images four manifestations of a man’s anima which evolves across phases as he grows older. A soul image of EVE is biological. It expresses a man’s natural bond/vital connection with women. Named after the first woman in Genesis, Eve appears as a personal mother or a model of nurturing, protecting, and loving female caregiver. At this level of anima development, a man’s emotional and physical attachment to women is conditioned by his desire for security/connection and psychological stability. Love is instinctual where a woman is equated with the mother and only represents something to be fertilized (Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954. In CW 16, par 361). Sensual and beautiful HELEN is an allusion to Helen of Troy in Greek mythology. Helen presents an ideal image of female sexuality and power. She is worldly, self-reliant, insightful, and ambitious, yet lacks fidelity and virtue. The second stage is still dominated by the sexual eros (ibid.) in this phase of anima development, an attraction to woman is driven by female physical appeal and sensuous magnetism. Love and lust are closely intertwined where a woman is often objectified. An anima image of MARY is spiritual and virtuous in nature. She embodies a female figure of a genuine, independent, and inspiring partner. Named after Virgin Mary in the Christian theology, she manifests a man’s desire for lasting emotional relationships, intimacy, and appreciation. In this stage, Eve has been replaced by spiritual motherhood (ibid.) where sexuality is integrated into meaningful friendship. Love is devotional where woman has value as individual. Eternal and insightful SOPHIA is named after the Greek word for wisdom. This archetypal soul image often appears in a man’s unconscious as the divine feminine comforter, delicate inner guide to the temple of his heart, and a female face of creative spirituality. This stage represents a spiritualization of Helen and consequently of Eros as such (ibid.). At this highest level of anima evolution, Sophia personalizes a man’s need for grace, empathy, and the deeper meaning as an antithesis to destruction and chaos. Love is reflective and compassionate. When one personification of the anima is consciously understood/lived, an established relationship stimulates the psyche to move to the next level by forming bridges to the following archetypal anima figures. The dominant character in the unconscious again changes to appear in a new symbolic form. When a man progresses to the highest spiritual level, he can experience various aspects of four images simultaneously without conflict/obsession. In every phase, a man’s psychological exposure, deep emotional resonance, and partnership with his Anima makes him more intuitive, creative, and perceptive towards himself and others. Through consciousness expansion (moving away from external dependence on a mother figure toward an internal nurturing source of feminine guidance), man’s anima development defines his route to individuation, self-acceptance, and openness to the world. Art: Mahnoush Rahbar, Woman with flowers

18.01.2022 https://www.seniors.com.au//what-to-do-when-you-work-for-m Here's an interview/talk I had with Wendy Squires about successfully working with your younger boss, in case relevant for anyone

18.01.2022 Meredith Fuller & Brian Walsh Psychologists Strategies for Elusive Sleep, especially in 2020...Continue reading

17.01.2022 Query - What does the anodyne term 'domestic abuse' mean? Do people using it mean CRIMINAL ASSAULT AT HOME? If so, say so.Query - What does the anodyne term 'domestic abuse' mean? Do people using it mean CRIMINAL ASSAULT AT HOME? If so, say so.

16.01.2022 Abandonment can feel raw and painful, just like trauma. When a client is abandoned, that painful experience can stay with them through life and be easily trigg...ered. And when it does get triggered, it can flood the client with fear, panic, and intense shame. So how do we work with this? That’s why we turned to the world’s top 26 experts for the latest strategies on helping clients who have been abandoned. Click here to learn more https://www.nicabm.com/program/abandonment-fb/?d=fbo.977.1.a

16.01.2022 Leo loves to be in charge and organise everyone.

16.01.2022 Shona interviewed me on anxiety - types and what to do

14.01.2022 When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those ki...nds of ‘getting to know you,’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes. And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘ ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them. And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘ I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’ And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘Win’ at them. Kurt Vonnegut: See more

14.01.2022 from my cousin Jacqui Snooks Counselling and Psychotherapy

12.01.2022 AusAPT Online Conference 5-7 November | Valuing Type in a Virtual World | 12 sessions over 3 days | 13 local and international presenters. Program and registration coming out very soon so hold the date + watch this space! #ausaptonline2020 #ausapt2020

11.01.2022 AusAPT's 3 December event "Influence of your temperament family tree and falling in love" with Meredith & Brian includes a look at 3 men's tree and love Brian Walsh (an INFJ in an ISTJ family, Gabriele Parpinello (an NT in an NT women SJ Men family, and Mick Pacholli (an ENFP in an NT family). THE COUNCIL WORKER FAMILY, THE GANGSTER FAMILY, and the FARMER FAMILY Australian Association for Psychological Type Inc ZOOM event explores what this means for the 3 boys, now over age 65, and who they fall in love with. a. Brian didn't expect he'd find a soulmate let alone get married, b. Mick, not a hunter, he was chosen by his 4 common law wives c. Gabe, his SJ family expected he'd marry his pregnant SP girlfriend but he knew it wouldn't work before marrying.

11.01.2022 Today the APS joined the Climate and Health Alliance, together with over 30 other health groups, to release a joint statement calling on the Federal Government ...to address #climatechange in the National Preventive Health Strategy, which is currently in development. As the science of behavior, psychology has much to say about what people can do to help prevent and mitigate the impacts of climate change and how to develop strategies to cope http://ow.ly/yghG50BxviA See more

11.01.2022 thanks to @Jacqui Snooks for sharing this

08.01.2022 On this day 16 March 1974, 50 feminists in Sydney broke into two abandoned houses in Glebe and opened them as the Elsie Women's Refuge, Australia's first refuge for women escaping domestic abuse. Within a few years, hundreds of independently-run refuges had opened across the country.

06.01.2022 In times of worry and uncertainty, it's normal to experience feelings of stress. Here are some tips to keep your mental and physical health in check. https://buff.ly/2JqJWVk

05.01.2022 David Leser and Natassia Chrysanthos - outstanding article in Good Weekend about boys - deplorable; this must be acted on NOW. You can see the connection with domestic violence, what ails our society, and why so many people are so traumatised.

04.01.2022 Australian Association for Psychological Type Inc 3 December event "Influence of your temperament FAMILY TREE and falling in love" with Brian Walsh & Meredith F...uller explores confluence, conflict, and withdrawal in the family you grew up in, and how temperament may help to explain love choices (are you drawn to partners who remind you of the parent you were closest to | the parent you fought with | or do you avoid chosing and are chosen? Do you go for the 'bad boys' Do you go for someone with similar eye and hair colouring to your family? PHOTO: my Pugh ancestors (R to L my grandmother, grandfather holding mother) See more

04.01.2022 He is fabulous; sterling bates did a great workshop at our Melbourne conference last year

03.01.2022 my cousin Jacqui Snooks posted this, thankyou!!! Her counselling services are in the Mornington area

03.01.2022 After the illness a fruitful period of work began for me. A good many of my principal works were written only then. The insight I had had, or the vision of the ...end of all things, gave me the courage to undertake new formulations. I no longer attempted to put across my own opinion, but surrendered myself to the current of my thoughts. Thus one problem after the other revealed itself to me and took shape. Something else, too, came to me from my illness. I might formulate it as an affirmation of things as they are: an unconditional ‘yes’ to that which is, without subjective protests acceptance of the conditions of existence as I see them and understand them, acceptance of my own nature, as happen to be. At the beginning of the illness I had the feeling that there was something wrong with my attitude, and that I was to some extent responsible for the mishap. When one follows the path of individuation when one lives one’s own life, one must take mistakes into the bargain. Life would not be complete without them. There is not the guarantee for a single moment we will not fall into error or stumble into deadly peril. We may think there is a sure road. But that would be the road of death. Then nothing happens any longer, not the right things. Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It was only after the illness that I understood how important it is to affirm one's own destiny. In this way we forge an ego that does not break down when incomprehensible things happen; an ego that endures, that endures the truth, and that is capable of coping with the world and with fate. Then, to experience defeat is also to experience victory. Nothing is disturbed neither inwardly nor outwardly, for one's own continuity has withstood the current of life and of time. But that can come to pass only when one does not meddle inquisitively with the workings of fate. - C.G. Jung, MDR, p. 297.

02.01.2022 At our conference last year, I attended Julie's workshop. Lovely time had by all and I will be going to this tonight.

02.01.2022 Black Friday? This is Australia. We save that name for bushfires.

02.01.2022 Jane Caro we are all sick of ageism - the most productive and enjoyable years are from 60 plus

01.01.2022 Here are my thoughts on the LATENESS issues; I have made some (Personality Type) J versus P comments and I hasten to add that I am a P, married to a J. I am not... 'late' because I appreciate that it is important to respect other people but I confess it doesn't come naturally - time is a curious beast to a P. See more