Reflections
Thoughts, readings, insights.
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Tidal rockpools: how amazing are they? Miniature universes cyclically uncovered. The depths become the surface, and we are temporarily permitted to look through these windows into another world, full of treasures and secrets, bursting with life. Now here is a bumper crop of things I have found almost as captivating as rockpools recently. For anyone…
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I’m doing a series of … well, see above. Things that people commonly wonder or worry about when starting (or thinking about starting) therapy. Sometimes, I am asked these sorts of questions directly during an initial consultation or an early session. Often, they are implicit in other things that come up. While I will try…
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The festive season seems like an appropriate time at which to share this excellent piece on group relations by Lily Scherlis in N+1. It is funny, enlightening, and of interest to anyone who has ever spent any time in a group. You can also hear Lily discussing her piece on the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast (subscription…
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The clocks have gone back, the days feel short and access to sunlight can be scarce. There can be comfort in the familiar rhythm of the seasons and the opportunity to hunker down and get cosy. But we don’t all feel this way. Many people find their mood is negatively affected by the lack of…
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It’s not new news that younger people in particular are turning to AI as a an alternative or supplement to therapy. I could write an impassioned post about why it can’t be the former, and is at best about as useful as writing in a journal as the latter (which is to say, potentially useful…
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LEPIDUS: What manner o’ thing is your crocodile? ANTONY: It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves with it own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates. LEPIDUS:…