What do you do when you have an open Gestalt? I begin in this episode to tell you about how I created an open gestalt by acting too fast. Sending an email without reading it twice, leaving abruptly without a proper goodbye which left some wondering if I was angry with them. Over the years I have learned to say a proper goodbye and properly close the Gestalt.

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We humans tend to like completeness, we want to make sense of the things that are happening to us and around us. And sometimes we do not get the closure we need and we are left with unfinished business or an open Gestalt.

How is this important?

The way we deal with unfinished business is entirely personal. Everyone deals with this in a different way and it all depends on our life situation as well. How you have been brought up, how you have developed and where you are right now. Some unfinished business can’t be solved, for example when the person you had an argument with is no longer in your life. For some this can feel devastating.

I will go deeper into the individual way of dealing with an open gestalt by performing a little experiment with you, dear listener.

What’s Gestalt in all of this?

When we grow up our experiences are highly dependent on the adults in our lives. As mentioned before, we constantly want to make sense of what is happening around us and the understanding will calm us down, a sort of self-regulation. What can help us, which we so often go to in Gestalt Therapy, is our awareness.

References:

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Books mentioned:

Gestalt by Rasmussen & Busk, Publisher Frydenlund, 2015

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https://www.willegestalt.eu/

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All case stories are anonymised and no clients are directly quoted without prior written consent.

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Nutrition and eating has been part of many conversations I have had with clients in my praxis. In relation to stress or burnout, taking medication that influences weight or any other causes.

Food is our fuel so I thought this was a good opportunity to invite Anne Mette Franch Brandstrup who is a Nutrition therapist.

Anne Mette is originally from Denmark, just like me, and has been living in Luxembourg for over 22 years.

In this episode we will be talking about the connection between Nutrition and Gestalt Therapy

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The figure of today is about balance or restoring balance for women plus 40. Or as we like to say in Gestalt Therapy: “Becoming who you are” or as Anne Mette so elegantly added; “Becoming the BEST of who you are”

How is this important?

Nutrition is an important subject in many of the sessions that I have with clients. It is often related to unhappiness due to overweight or eating disorders, low energy levels, stress or major life changing situations. Anne Mette will give a bit of insight on how nutrition is important for women plus 40, the majority group of her clients.

What’s Gestalt in all of this?

Diet and providing nutritional advice is only part of Anne Mette’s strategy. She goes much deeper into finding the root cause of the symptoms to really create a profound and necessary change. This is where the connection between her work as a nutrition therapist and Gestalt Therapy is very clear.

More about Anne Mette Franch Brandstrup

Website:

Www.nutritionnhealth.eu

E-mail:

Contact@nutritionnhealth.eu

Instagram:

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Facebook:

Nutrition N Health

To Forgive is part of everyone’s life. Either to forgive someone else or ourselves and in some cases both. The feeling of anger, disappointment, resentment and sadness can cause physical and emotional problems if you are unable to forgive.

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In my Gestalt Therapy praxis I have worked with many clients on forgiving and also not wanting to, or unable to forgive. Often enough the person that needs to be forgiven is not in the room or there is not an opportunity to talk to this person. When that happens we work with experiments which I have spoken about in previous episodes.

How is this important?

To clarify why it is important to forgive, I am giving a concrete example of Hugo, a client of mine who was cheated on by his girlfriend. Hugo decided to forget her and that would make her disappear. Eventually he started to get physical problems, because forgetting and forgiving are not the same.

What’s Gestalt in all of this?

Hugo recognized that the physical problems were related to the break up with his girlfriend. By recognizing and understanding he was able to do something about it. By talking to her in the experiments he became more at peace with the situation. Even though he did not forgive her, he was now ready to move on.

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