We all have seen movies that profoundly moved us or had an impact on the way we view ourselves and others. That one movie that made you think about the choices you make in life or give you the feeling you are not alone feeling a certain way. In this episode, I talk about movies in relation to therapy. Without giving away too much of the 3 movies I am discussing, in case you haven’t seen them yet, I mention some scenes and situations that are relevant and meaningful to Gestalt Therapy. The movies are: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, 2019, American biographic drama. Directed by Marielle Heller. Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Lady Bird, 2017, American comedy-drama. Directed and written by Greta Gerwig Inside Out, 2015, American computer-animated film. Directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Ronnie del Carmen. Screenplay written by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley adapted from a story by Docter and del Carmen. References: At vaere der hvor du er, Bent Falk, Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck 2010 You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. Just a quick disclaimer: All case stories are anonymised and no clients are directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or, any other health professional Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

A lot of people are not living in the now, at least not all of the time. Why this matters is what I’ll be talking about in this episode. The now is the only place you can actually act on things, influence anything or change anything. Something that is impossible to do in the past or the future. Often we are all preoccupied with what happened for example a week ago, or what is going to happen in the next few months. This brings a lot of stress and worry and in some cases anxiety. I will give you some ideas on how to practice being more in the present, more in the now. And I will explain how Gestalt Therapy can guide you through this process by explaining the 3 awareness zones. Middle zone, which deals with thoughts, fantasies, analysis, associations. Inner and outer zones which respectively deal with  sensations in the body and using your senses like smelling, tasting, hearing, seeing. If you are like many of my clients in the praxis you will probably spend a lot of time using your head, operating a lot in the middle zone and less in the inner and outer zone. During this episode I will explain how a flow between all 3 zones are important and what the inner and outer zones do and how you can utilize these zones to be able to live more in the now. References: Dubliners, James Joyce,  Prestwick House, Inc,  2006 (first published June 1914), Dublin, Irland, The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, 1999 California, USA The Mindful Way through Depression – Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness, M. Williams, J. Teasdale, Z. Segal and J. Kabat- Zinn. The Guilford Press, 2007 New York, USA You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. Just a quick disclaimer: All case stories are anonymised and no clients are directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or, any other health professional Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

What are the personal core values you have in your life? It is a big question, to ask yourself what your personal values are, but it is one question that can clarify some of our issues, behaviours, goals, wants and needs. And are our personal values really our own, or an adaptation of something we have grown up with? In this episode I talk about reflecting on your life, what do you want to change, what do you want to have more of or maybe less ultimately leading to the question; how you might discover what the important stuff is in your life. In my praxis, I see a lot of people that are not happy in their life. There isn’t a specific problem, just an overall feeling of dissatisfaction or unhappiness that they would like to change. I will give some examples of questions I ask my clients and offer a few suggestions of books and articles to read that can help YOU in YOUR work with your core values. As I mention; “ Our values are not static, they might change throughout our life and even if they don't, our life will change. So it's helpful to check in on the correlation between the important stuff and how we actually live our life”. Resources mentioned in this episode: PERSONAL VALUES PERSONAL VALUES Card Sort Card Sort W.R. Miller, J. C’de Baca, D.B. Matthews, P.L. Wilbourne University of New Mexico, 2001 https://soulsalt.com Existential Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalom, 1980, USA, BasicBooks Etik – dilemma og valg, Einar Aadland, 2000, Norge/Denmark, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. Just a quick disclaimer: All case stories are anonymised and no clients are directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or, any other health professional This podcast is produced and edited by https://thepodcastjourney.com/ Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

Menopause and Andropause, we all go through it. Next to becoming an adult, it is one of the biggest life-changing moments both physically and mentally. In this episode, I discuss the importance of dealing with the mental challenges this transitional time brings by giving you some examples of stories that I have come across in my Praxis. From early onset menopause due to surgery for one female client to a change in energy and interests for a male client. Everyone experiences this stage in their life differently. For some, it is an exciting time for others it brings uncertainty and sadness. I will give ideas on how we can get to grips with what is happening in our lives when menopause and andropause come around the corner so that we can accept the changes and enjoy living here and now. You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. Just a quick disclaimer: All case stories are anonymised and no clients are directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or, any other health professional Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

We all deal with someone who is sad at some point in our lives. But how do you handle a situation like that? What do you say, or do? We tend to try and fix the situation for that person, tell them what to do to feel better but is that what they really need? In this episode, I go into this by way of a personal experience. I myself am a fixer and an organizer and my approach was to try and take away the sadness from my kids or my friends. Gestalt therapy has taught me that we all need to be allowed to feel what we feel, when we do. During the episode, we dive deeper to look at this from 2 sides. How it is for you to be next to the sad person and how your reactions might influence this sad person. Resources mentioned in this episode: Books: The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk When the body says no by Gabor Mate You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ Just a quick disclaimer: All case stories are anonymised and no clients directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or any other health professional To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. Astrid Wille Graphic Design - [email protected] Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

We all have had these moments in the last year and a half, you get annoyed with the people you live with or spend a lot of time with. The pandemic has caused us to be more at home, working from home, spending our free time at home, not being able to go where we please. But what if these annoyances get to a point that they are frustrating you and your spouse or roommate? In this episode, I will look at how these problems or difficulties might be related to the contact style called projection by giving you the example of Hugo, the same guy from episode 1. At the beginning of our session, Hugo projects towards me by saying he feels I am irritated which I wasn’t so we dove into the reason why he perceived the situation this way. If you want to know what was bothering Hugo, where this behaviour of projection comes from (because we all use this in some form or another), you should listen to this episode. Resources mentioned in this episode: Hanne Hostrup – Gestalt Therapy: An introduction to the Basic Concepts of Gestalt Therapy You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ Just a quick disclaimer: All case stories are anonymised and no clients directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or any other health professional To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. Astrid Wille Graphic Design - [email protected] Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

Living as an expat abroad and dealing with different countries and cultures can be challenging. In this episode I talk about Hugo who is made up of a lot of my clients but is also part of me as I too am an expat living for more than 25 years outside of my native country Denmark. What happens when Hugo goes back to his home country, how does he feel when he just arrives?. How can he fit in again with his family and friends, whose lives have continued without him? What makes it hard to leave his country and his family again? And when he arrives “home”, he questions where is “home” really. Gestalt Therapy has helped Hugo find a new awareness, how to make sense of this expat life by looking at it from a different angle. Listen to this episode to find out what this different angle is.  I end this episode with a quote from Frederick S. Perls, the father of Gestalt Therapy; “ Nobody can stand the truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself, because then the pride of discovery makes the truth agreeable.” You can find all the needed details for contacting me to make an appointment or get more information about my praxis on my website; https://www.willegestalt.eu/ You can follow me on: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/ To make sure you never miss an episode you can follow my podcast via your podcast app of choice. More information on Frederick S. Perls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Perls Just a quick disclaimer: All case-stories are anonymised and no clients directly quoted without prior written consent. And remember any information you hear on this podcast, see on the willegestalt website, Facebook page or Instagram is for information purposes only and should never be a substitute for actual mental and/or medical advice from a doctor, psychiatrist or any other health professional Astrid Wille Graphic Design - [email protected] Music courtesy of TrackTribe - Longer Distance

An introduction to the world of Gestalt Therapy and how I got involved with it. Being of Danish origins I am now living in Luxembourg. " We all have a past which influences our present" and during this trailer, I give a little peek into my own past. Furthermore, I explain where the inspiration for the topics of this podcast are coming from and what the recurring features will be. More information about me and my Gestalt Therapy praxis can be found on my website: https://www.willegestalt.eu/ Or you can follow me on social media: https://www.facebook.com/willegestalt/ https://www.instagram.com/willegestalt/