Daphne Pleace

Hello, welcome to my website. Thanks for visiting. I always wondered what I wanted to be when I grew up. Now, more half a century of working life on, I may have some idea. As I move beyond the ‘apprenticeship’ stage, I identify three strands to my life’s work: interweaving, with each informing and benefitting the others, though separated here for clarity.

 

Please feel free to browse the website, but be aware I am currently making significant changes to reflect our current situation, my return to Yorkshire to live, and my ongoing learning and development… perhaps I’m still not properly grown up yet after all.

Psychotherapy & Personal Development

“What is necessary to change a person is to change [their] awareness of [themselves].”

Abraham Maslow

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Writing & Reading

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

Joan Didion

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Nature’s Healing & The Medicine Approach

“Nature is alive and talking to us. This is not a metaphor.”

Terence McKenna

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Blog

My blog, updated regularly, is here. It's a mixed bag, though generally one or more of the three threads of my practice are reflected in the pieces: nature, writing and reading, personal development. The poet and philosopher Rainer Maria Rilke said, "The only journey is the journey within." So whether it's via this website or somewhere else. I hope you begin - or continue - that journey.

Back to Nature… again (Part Two)

I’ve always been keen on the small. Maybe it’s because I’m not much over five foot myself, but I’ve always preferred small houses, small cars, small decorative items rather than grand installations. The miniature rather than the wall-sized painting. The pearl earring rather than dangling hoop. It’s the same with the […]

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Back to Nature… again (Part One)

My third-wave nature sensibility has both nothing and everything to do with the current state of social isolation under Covid-19. What seems like a thousand years ago, as a socially isolated only child – no siblings, few extended family members, and not allowed friends – I played out for hours on […]

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Just popping back a hundred million years…

It’s not often you get the chance to jump in the car, drive for fifteen minutes or so, step into an ordinary house in an ordinary street, and arrive 100 million years before even your most distant ancestors were the proverbial twinkles…   The adventure began as Robert, guardian of the […]

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Telephone: 07860 463005