Shelley Williams

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist in Bromley, London, online | BPC & UKCP | Blog | Writer | The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are ~ C.G. Jung

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Exploring our psychic terrain can feel treacherous. Like the children in @MichaelRosenYes’s ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt,’ our ‘survival self’ wants to go over or under, but never through ~ my post re #trauma and #healing in #therapy via @CounsellorsCafe
https://t.co/Cf23PZO7Sv

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NEW #FBLM with @EstherPerel!

How often do we think that it is our partner that ‘needs’ to change?

More often than not, however, we need to look in the mirror. Easier said than done, of course! Listen to the full podcast here 👉🏾 https://t.co/ITI0FmwNQV

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Analysis, dream interpretation, self-knowing, exploration, are all undertaken because they are ways of backtracking and looping. They are ways of diving down and coming up behind the issue & seeing it from a different perspective ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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#Freud wrote approximately 20,000 letters, aside from his prolific professional writing, and continued to write through crises, illness and personal tragedies. Great online talk by Brett Kahr @FreudMusLondon

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Just came across this excellent article in the British Journal of Psychotherapy by @GretaGK re social media & it’s impact on therapeutic relationships (open access) Important conversations for #psychoanalysis & #psychotherapy in a digital world https://t.co/qKJh9fHe6P

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Accessible (literally and figuratively!) informative exploration of systemic racism through dreams and psychotherapeutic work, by @Dturner300 (open access) https://t.co/zOUyS5Pbv0

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A lovely fellow #bookworm skipped off to @Waterstones and bought me a surprise book bundle 😁🥰 @BernardineEvari @annemichaels_
#Fiction #BookLove #SaturdayMotivation

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Creativity helps us to process our #anger and advocate against injustices.

Anger is fire for creativity — so it’s time to let it burn https://t.co/GJDkZvyKOt

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@keyeri When the msg was all inclusive, all-in-this-together, it acted as a container for fear, and people came together to care and protect. Now the msg has been muddied, there is division and no longer a container for fear, so people slide into defensive denial. That’s my current take.

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“Art is activism, intentional or not... art can change people’s hearts, minds, and humanity.”

UK theatre faces ruin amid coronavirus crisis, say top cultural figures https://t.co/XrhUr7JQy4

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@Rima_Sidhpara I’ve been surprised by ‘not my problem’ responses I have witnessed, and challenged, elsewhere. These conversations need to be fully integrated into counselling and psychotherapy trainings. Racism as a ‘topic’ to be brushed over is not ok. I’m sorry you experienced this.

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I just signed a petition asking @MattHancock not to cancel student nurses' contracts. Will you add your name here? https://t.co/vlNsvv4IsU

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All those meaningless Tory claps

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Brave student nurses who joined the NHS early to fight Coronavirus will suffer financial hardship because the deal they had in place has now been reneged on

Please RT and sign the petition to encourage @MattHancock to reconsider

https://t.co/XbA6ynU9Vz

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Where days were naturally peppered with social interactions, at the shops, work, travelling, now we have lost those daily rhythms, and masks and social distancing mean we lose key parts of communication. Subtle everyday losses. #mentalhealth #loss #Covid_19

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“White therapists, you are invited to ask your clients about how racism affects their daily lives and your therapeutic relationship.”
#psychotherapy #counselling
https://t.co/9NR01o8hYr

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Had to delete the last post because I started getting promotional tweets about a ball that you kick with your foot.

But my Q was, does the absence of the ball that you kick with your foot have anything to do with a rise in uncontained aggression?

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do you think there is anywhere,
in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed -
or have you too
turned from this world -

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

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The Sun
a poem by Mary Oliver

(because why not)

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone -

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and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance -
and have you ever felt for anything

such wild love -

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@LisaMarchiano @jk_rowling Well I might be a little attached to the SAP as I have done a few post-qualifying courses now! This was discussed on a course relating to working in therapy with 18-25yos.

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@LisaMarchiano @jk_rowling I remember reading your excellent chapter Language of the Psyche when studying at The SAP which really helped to elucidate some of the complexities around this important discussion.