BREAKING: Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder broke out an acoustic rendition of Bruce Springsteen's "My City of Ruins" at their show last night to support Springsteen in his fight against Donald Trump. This is awesome. America is waking up.
Well here we go! The perfect Goddess, Mel Giedroyc is to be your wonderful new host for your Where There’s a Will There’s a Wake podcast. Hurrah! I told you Big God Ollie wouldn’t let you down. Enjoy! I know I will! 🤗♥️⚰️🎧
How will *just talking* in therapy help me get better?
“Give sorrow words”
—psychoanalyst William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
👉 Words are powerful containers of emotion. The process of putting thoughts and feelings into words *transforms* them
👉It brings thought and feelings into the light of day
👉allows them to be processed in a different way and integrated into the totality of one’s experience and identity
👉brings them increasingly under conscious (voluntary) control
👉and so expands freedom and choice, where previously our responses were automatic or experienced as obligatory
👉the newfound clarity opens the door to solutions previously invisible to us
👉creates relational connection with another human being around experience previously suffered in a state of isolation and aloneness
👉brings to bear all of the emotion-regulatory functions of attachment
👉 builds our capacity for authentic empathy and intimacy with others—which helps counteract emotional pain and make it more bearable
👉mobilizes psychological strengths, resources, and capacities,
👉and opens possibilities for new emotional development and growth
I could go on. At length
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break”
—Shakespeare
“We all hope that our patients will finish with us and forget us, and that they will find living itself to be the therapy that makes sense”
—Donald Winnicott