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I enjoyed reading this :)
"European cathedrals were built over generations by thousands of people. Similarly, the electric grid, the public-water supply, the food-distribution network, and the public-health system took the collective labor of thousands… They are the cathedrals of our secular era."
I feel embarrassed writing about this but I'm only starting to realize how big the difference is between
relating to other people as objects (there to meet my ~very special, very important~ needs)
and
as real humans (with all the complexity, agency and needs that this entails)
Of course, this feels safer and easier to do with some people than others.
A good therapist, friends or partner for example should enable the us to experiment with non-habitual behaviors.
I like learnings that feel so obvious in retrospect that it borders on banal.
I like them because they show me how incomplete my silly little world model is.
A recent one: other people don't heal our relational traumas; it's *how* we relate to others that does.
A good question to ask self and others: "what small thing would help right now?"
I just finished reading Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom and I loved it so much I'm organizing a little interactive workshop on meaning/meaninglessness 🌌🔮😊🙃
This Thursday 9 jan
5:30-7pm in Copenhagen
DM me if you want to join, remotely or in person. Everyone very welcome! 🥰🤗
I'm excited about doing this War and Peace read-along this year if anyone wants to join me - one super-short chapter a day keeps the death anxiety away, as they say 💃
footnotesandtangents.substack.com/p/join-the-2...
I bought the substack subscription but happy to forward the emails - just dm me 💌
A nice little tool for checking your intentions:
WAIT
Why
Am
I
Talking?
Have been using it for a few days and embarrassingly, 'to prove myself' and 'to get attention seem' are pretty frequent 🥴🙃
we're hiring a back-end engineer at turn! come join us!
www.turn.io/jobs/product...
awesome team 🥰
awesome impact 💡
awesome scale 🌍
some examples of the kind of stuff we do: www.youtube.com/@turnio (check out the latest demo day 🇮🇳)
It would be in keeping with the times to alter it: “Si vis vitam, para mortem.” If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death."
"To tolerate life remains, after all, the first duty of all living beings. Illusion becomes valueless if it makes this harder for us.
We recall the old saying: “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” If you want to preserve peace, arm for war.
Reading Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom, and wanting to share:
Yalom, so far (I'm only on p63/486), is essentially arguing that 'every fear is ultimately the fear of death'.
He disagrees with Freud a lot who tended to make stuff more about repressed sexuality.
But, he then quotes Freud:
I also love David Richo's assertion that grief is cycling through anger, sadness, and fear.
Finally, being witnessed and validated in a psychologically safe social setting is key.
True for adults (grief groups, therapy, community)
& for children (being asked questions, being held, comforted, allowed, given helpful language for conceptualizing and expressing the experience and its impact)
I also really love the idea that grief is also about integrating what was meaningful, important and inspiring about the life and experiences prior to the grief, into newly defined freedom and integrity.
What does the loss enable us to re-negotiate within ourselves, and/or re-navigate for ourselves?
also learned about the two-track model of grief. 🛤️
the idea is that we oscillate between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented thoughts and emotions during grief.
Notion of parallel tracks that continue for the person who experiences the loss, instead of a series of phases/tasks to complete.
we also often experience multiple losses with the loss of one thing - whether it's a person, hope, safety, health, identity, love, connection, meaning, etc
similar to secondary gains with psychological challenges, there are secondary losses with separation - friend, lover, witness, external memory
psychotherapy training module on grief this weekend.
very beautiful.
grief is natural, normal, necessary, and possible to move through.
for most people, this happens organically and takes time (6 months - 1 yr, w lots of variance).
for some, dedicated support might be needed to let go & feel.