Hello, here is a BBC article where my partner Matt is raising awareness about the plight of curlews. On Sunday 19th April we’ll be doing the Yorkshire 3 peaks dressed in full curlew costume!
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#curlewconservation
#worldcurlewday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hello friends on Bluesky! On Sunday 19th April, 2 giant curlews are going to scale the Yorkshire 3 Peaks with company. Please do share far & wide - all funds raised go to @curlewaction.bsky.social & Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust.
Here is the link:
www.justgiving.com/team/curlew3...
Great appearance in the conference! #CathytheCurlew
The first day of the European Curlew Fieldworker Workshop in Lancaster was a great start to what promises to be a weekend full of important discussions, skill sharing and human connection.
Stay tuned for more highlights coming soon.
📷 Verity White
Elizabeth Day referring to Stephen Grosz as ‘the poet laureate of human emotions’ in her podcast is spot on!
#StephenGrosz #Love’sLabour
#HowtoFailpodcast
Hi folks, my conversation with Psychotherapist Tom Welch is now on Substack - open.substack.com/pub/clairefi...
“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
“Phenomenological investigation demonstrates that, once our sedimented outlook is ‘opened up’, numerous perceptual possibilities become available which can be repeatedly turned to for experiential verification” - E. Spinelli
#ErnestoSpinelli #existentialpsychotherapy
“Be thoughtful, of course, but be courageous. If you have any anxiety when you’re practicing, that’s good...Take risks. If you’re never afraid and you’re just offering soothing, comforting things you’re probably not giving the person everything that person really needs.”
#KarenMaroda #psychotherapy
Umberto Eco with many shelves of his collection of books
He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”.
-Umberto Eco
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#books
Included in this episode, the Jungian Analysts discuss how empathy is sometimes overused to avoid conflict in a therapist & client context, & that it can be important to allow a conflict to happen for the possibility of growth to occur from the strife.
#KarenMaroda
open.spotify.com/episode/0DBn...
‘Chaos is full of paradox. Its own character is ambiguous & contradictory; nature can be both deterministic & unpredictable. Randomness & structure can co-exist. Simplicity & complexity are not mutually exclusive concepts; instead, they exist in a state of tension’.
#ChrysaPlymaki #existentialism
‘If we believe that the “Oedipus Complex” implies only that little boys want to kill the man they know is their father & marry the woman they know is their mother, then our understanding is based on an extreme simplification of the myth’
Freud And Man’s Soul -Bettelheim
#OedipusComplex #TheSphinx
‘The aim of therapy is not primarily to achieve specific ‘’insights’’ into oneself or one’s past…but to develop the capacity or function for self-awareness: to identify feelings, thoughts & impulses, to put them into words’
Jeremy Holmes - The Search for the Secure Base
#Attachment #Psychotherapy
To add to this - ‘It would be wrong to understand Winnicott’s words to mean that there is a fully developed true self hidden behind the false self. If that were so, there would be no narcissistic disturbance but a conscious self-protection’
Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings….this freedom cannot be achieved if the childhood roots are cut off’
Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child
#depthpsyhology
#DrAliceMillerPsychologist
‘I distinguish between ego & the self, since the ego is only the subject of my consciousness, while the self is the subject of my total psyche, which also includes the unconscious. In this sense the self would be an ideal entity which embraces the ego’
Jung 1926
#Jung #depthpsychology #psychotherapy
Really grateful to @k8lister.bsky.social & Emily Van Dyne for shedding light on Sylvia Plath’s complex & creative life, & for challenging presumed narratives about her, thank you!
#SylviaPlath #BetwixtTheSheets
In this episode the Jungian Analysts explore differences with thoughts & feelings, & how being stuck in a complex can distort an individual’s thinking
#ThisJungianLife #CarlJung
#depthpsychology
open.spotify.com/episode/7vpk...
Birds
‘Only ‘’children & fools’’ tell the truth, since their persona has not developed to the degree expected by society’
Shame & The Origins of Self-Esteem by Mario Jacoby offers detailed insights on how shame fundamentally affects an individual’s sense of self & perspective
#psychotherapy #Jung
‘We may be familiar with our acceptable qualities, but literature can help us to accept aspects of our personalities that it can be very hard to bear on our own’
Kate Barrows - Ideas in Psychoanalysis: Envy
#psychoanalysis
#depthpsychology
What a wonderful idiom!
‘A good therapeutic outcome is a person’s sense of humour improving’ - Peter Fonagy
In this episode Peter Fonagy touches on the roots of MBT & how this evolved in working with individuals with BPD
#mentalisationbasedtherapy
#psychotherapy
#BerlinPsychoanalytic
open.spotify.com/episode/2vrT...
‘The crumbling of the false self occurs through awareness of its manifestations, not through the substitution of some underlying “truer” personality’
Mark Epstein - Thoughts Without A Thinker
#psychotherapy #depthpsychology
Nightjar on the ground camouflaged against the dirt, with green foliage in the background.
📢 We need your help to monitor Nightjar for the Heathland Birds Survey! Find a priority site near you ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... #Ornithology #UKBirding
A huge thank you to all volunteers participating in this project!
📷 Nightjar by Mike Toms
