The Ambivalent Therapist

Overly caffeinated ➕ she/her ➕ mental health professional-ish

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

I think our defenses get a bad rap these days. Defenses are the brilliant ways our minds and psyches protect us from things we can’t currently handle - things that could cause us harm.

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Keeping this in mind heading into 2020

[Rebecca Lujan Loveless @rlujanloveless]

Sometimes things don’t change so you have to.

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

By now I should be used to the fragility of white men but damn, sometimes it still surprises me

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@rlujanloveless Such a teeny tiny rollercoaster of emotion 🎢

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@boyinplaid @rlujanloveless Oh, sorry...POGI. Did you want to chime in with your birth story? No? Cool...

[Cat Hicks @grimalkina]

Rest is required for learning (& forgetting is required for learning!). Learning isn't just mashing more content into a bucket-brain forever. Lots of effects (from deliberate practice to spacing) show cram/work 'til you drop methods are inefficient, destructive in the longterm.

[Hillary L McBride @hillarylmcbride]

How long it takes for someone to text you back has nothing to do with you and how they feel about you, and everything to do with that other person’s relationship to technology, and what is happening for them in their in-the-moment life. #therapy

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

- Rebecca Solnit

Damn, Rebecca is laying it out there in her book The Mother of all Questions. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a good feminist read 🙌

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

“Empathy is a narrative we tell ourselves to make other people real to us, to feel for and with them, and thereby to extend and enlarge and open ourselves.”

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

“To be without empathy is to have shut down or killed off some part of yourself and your humanity, to have protected yourself from some kind of vulnerability. Silencing, or refusing to hear, breaks this social contract of recognizing another’s humiamty and our connectedness.”

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@tkiramadden

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@alyrae

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@alyrae Your ghost of Christmas Future could not be ANY better 👏👏👏

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Today, the majority of this country, myself included, celebrates the birth of a Brown-skinned Jewish refugee and migrant, a major prophet in Islam, a socialist, a champion of equality, who preached against exorbitant wealth, hunger, homelessness, and hatred. Merry Christmas!

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

Hey Siri, sum up “patriarchy” in a single photo:

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@DaddyLukeSF @theKevinGarcia_ No, it doesn’t.

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@alyrae Congratulations Aly!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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@cmclymer

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Y'all need to leave Adam Driver alone. He experienced some mental discomfort during an interview and removed himself from the situation. He took care of himself in that moment. He didn't insult or offend or hurt anyone. We shouldn't stigmatize mental health like this.

[The Ambivalent Therapist @theambivalentt1]

@kelswid