No amount of book reading or class taking will prepare you to be with the depth of another’s despair, the magnitude of their rage, or the vastness of their sorrow.

@amor_fatti It is those of us who, despite seeing destruction and despair in ourselves and in the world, still find a way to forge meaning and discover beauty. It is those of us who weave love into the fabric of our being, into our existence, who truly transform the world around us.

Anger isn’t the enemy. It’s the body’s protest against invisibility, betrayal, and unmet needs. You weren’t “too emotional.” You were too alone with your emotions. Let the fire speak. Let it move. Then let it soften into truth.

pattern recognition… sadly, the very thing DSM destroys with it’s lists of criteria and algorithmic rules

soli You are not here to hunt the divine. You are here to remember you are its home.

soli Justice Was Always Watching I died a thousand deaths in silence. Each one small enough to miss, but sharp enough to etch scripture into skin. You thought I’d gone quiet. I was listening to older gods. You named it drama, while I swallowed wounds you never saw. You mistook my

Real psychotherapy is an ongoing personal relationship and cannot “scale” Real psychotherapy is therefore of no interest to private equity & tech They can *call* it therapy... but if you’re getting something delivered at scale, you can be sure you’re not getting psychotherapy

Jonathan Shedler You raise a powerful and increasingly urgent question…. Is the word ‘therapy’ being diluted by the logic of scale? Genuine therapy can’t scale because it relies on a unique, unfolding, intersubjective relationship between two people. Psychotherapy isn’t a set of techniques.

soli To the One Who Can’t Find the Exit The way is within you. The stars have not forgotten you. You are walking the invisible thread. You are inside the labyrinth woven by your own becoming. The walls are lined with every version of yourself you had to abandon to survive. And I

Jonathan Shedler “Neutrality does not mean disengagement; it is an ethical stance of curiosity and humility in the face of another’s subjectivity.” Stephen Mitchell “The analyst is neutral in that he refrains from imposing his own values, expectations, or needs upon the patient… not because he

People will appreciate your depth until it's time for them to reciprocate. Since not everyone has journeyed far enough within themselves to meet you where you are, that's when you realize your depth isn't for everyone. It's a rare currency, and not all hands are meant to hold it.

“I’ve treated plenty of CBT therapists. They don’t come asking for CBT. They don’t necessarily come asking for psychoanalysis either. They come wanting to be seen, heard, understood, and known. But that is the essence of a psychoanalytic approach. CBT therapists also come to me

Your phone isn’t just a communication tool. It’s a surveillance device you carry voluntarily. But it doesn’t have to be. Use better tools.

I suggest adding "Chatbot Induced Psychosis" to DSM & ICD: 1)Provides treatment target 2)Predicts transient course 3)important differential diagnosis to avoid harmful med treatment 4)Shame AI companies to program safer bots Unlike most new diagnoses lots of benefit/small risk.

soli We sit in the circle, silent as gods must be, and watch him burn. Not only in fire but in all the small, slow flames of living. The hunger that drags him from bed. The grief that hollows his chest. The brief sweetness that almost redeems it. We watch it all unfold inside this

"BCH is computationally equivalent to ETH now, but BCH has significantly higher compute limits and lower fees."

calvin westra When a whale dies, we gather and we weep. When a rat spares another, no one sees. And so the world waits, hungry for a tenderness small enough to live between the walls, quiet enough to teach us that all life belongs to the living.

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love drops Jung emphasised that the deepest kind of isolation happens when what’s happening inside us can’t be shared or understood for whatever reason… he said that we carry unique and often ineffable truths, and when those truths are unspoken or unseen, we feel terribly alone… even in a

Physics In History Maybe consciousness isn’t either/or… in our minds or the cosmos.. but in the space between us. It includes an internal awareness, external perception, and meta-awareness, that include shared… co-constructed realities. Our minds don’t exist in isolation…they’re woven into