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Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 6d

When real-life headlines read like they come out of nightmares, it's a lifeline to have your dreams sift through the barrage of daily images and offer up one that's informative, helpful, insightful -- and then have a community of people just talk about it together.

Our brains are trying to help us.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 6d

Anyway - PLENTY of seats open -

and I try to reserve four free seats for every group I facilitate - the rest are "pay-whatever-you-can-afford" by donation.

This system actually consistently takes care of me!

So please feel free to join if you are interested!

Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice

Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 8d

If propgandists, fascists, LLMs and algorithms know more about how your emotional response cycle operates than you do -

this trouble is deeper than you know.

Your emotions are trying to perform important functions

4 seats open
2 of them free 2 by donation
Starts tomorrow

or grown-ups who have feelings

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 9d

And hold their tiny sweaters for ransom.

Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 9d

That sounds right. They’d start shaking pitifully and spill the beans…

Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 9d

@whatashrinkthinks.com might have something to say on behalf of chihuahuas…

virtual gatherings for community support

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 9d

@feelingndealing.bsky.social relevant to your interests?

antoninus pius @pius.dog · 9d

a conversation we have to have if we respect the arena of open dialogue

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 9d

1000% 😂 pugs will accidentally rat you out due to silliness — CAN CONFIRM!

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 12d

I’m so looking forward to Saturday’s gathering: Trust in Power ⭐️ who will join us?

#art #tarot #artsbasedresearch

A photo of a watercolor painting resembling a moody sunset. Atop the painting sits a painted, moon-like circle. Words are hand-lettered onto the circle: “Power doesn’t panic.” From the tv show Andor

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 14d

i've been a part of Nina's co-resting groups for over a year. after leaving behind my life as a monk, it's the one place i've been able to experience the joy + power of the teaching "zazen has no fixed form." a profound spiritual practice + a place to show up authentically with others #inthesetimes

Nina Hatfield @ninahatfield.bsky.social · Dec 23

In response to feeling isolated by chronic illness and appreciative of remote access to community, I host online Co-Resting Groups. They provide a way to gently socialize and rest in community.

Interested or know someone who might be? Please have a look and share!

www.co-resting.org

Co-Resting

www.co-resting.org

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 14d

Starts tomorrow!

Happy to make room for more! 🌸

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 14d

Several by donation /pay-whatever-you-can seats open for this workshop that focuses on easing us through our cultural resistances to talking about mortality and the role it plays in the global crises we are facing:

Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks

Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential realities.

Discussion - Community Work: Why Bother & What Stops Us

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14d

I’m looking forward to this discussion with Martha and Dr. Charles — they’re asking important questions 💡

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 14d

Discounts available for this pair of discussions on community work:

RECORDING AVAILABLE

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 15d

My friend @jbethiejean.bsky.social wrote a book! I’m so looking forward to reading 🤓

Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 15d

👏🏽❤️‍🔥👏🏽

Circling the Drain: Living Intentionally with Mortality

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 17d

"Totalitarians manipulate us is through our heightened anxiety about death and dying—as the dominant culture has failed to initiate so many of us into healthy relationship to our mortality.

...But we also have to be prepared to mourn, and find meaning in lives that are finite."

don't miss this!

a gentle, joyful by-donation 16 week workshop starting Wed 9/24

open.substack.com

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 17d

@feelingndealing.bsky.social + I will be gathering in the zoom room for The Symbolic Lab: Trust in POWER this coming Saturday, 9/27 + we would love to see you there...

this Lab is offered by donation/pay-what-you-can

image of the Fool arcanum from @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crow Death Magic

The Symbolic Lab: Trust in Power — shea in the catskills

The 2025 Symbolic Lab is a collaborative, online, arts-based research project facilitated by shea in the catskills + Elena Solano around the theme of trust . Each month, we’ll take up trust—what ...

Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 17d

This workshop still has up to seven seats open

And free seats are still available

Hoping it will fill enough to run

(I promise it isn’t stressful or depressing)

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · Sep 4

Sept 24th: Wednesdays

an online workshop and peer discussion group designed for anyone who wants to expand their ability to withstand and accept existential realities, to develop healthier, more related responses to encounters with death & dying in the wider culture:

By donation/free seats open

Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential realities.

Groups & Workshops | Join Engaging Community Workshops — What A Shrink Thinks

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 21d

I trust Martha wholeheartedly and highly recommend all of her groups and workshops 👇🏽

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22d

Listen: one of the ways that people survive and hold on to reality in totalitarian environments is by forming sanity/reality pods - circles where we can tell each other the truths we hear and see and defend against collective delusions

You can join one of mine or I’ll help you build your own.

Explore community groups, workshops, and trainings focused on community resilience, discernment and psycho-spiritual growth, Join our events to connect and learn.

a september interlude — shea in the catskills

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 25d

they are ready for the world!
introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines box set

plus: a new video about the Study Tarot Series, pre-orders for @therebis.com, The Symbolic Lab with @feelingndealing.bsky.social + The Correspondence natal chart offering

#tarot #tarotsky #zines #zinesky

Introducing 78 Faces of Power: The Elemental Tarot Zines Box Set

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 29d

OMGEEEEEEEEE

September 2025: steady as she goes... — shea in the catskills

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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · Sep 1

september newsletter is out...

the knight of pentacles: Quality control, proofreading, beta testing, run-thrus + troubleshooting. Spreadsheets, timestamps, follow-up, data collection + analysis. Attention to detail...

image from @isabellarotman.bsky.social's This Might Hurt Tarot
#tarot #tarotsky

steady as she goes: knight of pentacles The power of consistency, continuity, thoroughness + discipline. Inexorability: it’s only a matter of time. Extreme practicality. Responsibility: taking it ser...

the symbolic lab — shea in the catskills

Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tomorrow @sheainthecatskills.com & I will be hosting Trust in Communication — who would like to join us?

Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · Aug 5

The 2025 Symbolic Lab is a collaborative, online, arts-based research project facilitated by @sheainthecatskills.com & myself around the theme of trust.

These gatherings are offered by donation. No prior experience is needed to join!

sheainthecatskills.com/the-symbolic...

Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’ve called several pharmacies near me (Central Texas) — they’ve all said that they have a “limited stock”. Oy.

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The Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com · Aug 25

Meet @sheainthecatskills.com, a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, organizer and contemplative. We are so excited to be publishing their work. For The Devil issue, shea wrote a personal essay titled "On Liberating My Wild Devotion" about their relationship to eroticism & the male gaze ❤️‍🔥

A person with short dark hair, wearing teal sunglasses, a black face mask, and a red-and-black checkered flannel shirt, stands against a red wooden wall. They are holding up a tarot card with the illustration of "XV The Devil," showing a horned figure with wings and two smaller figures. The person wears layered necklaces and a chunky silver ring.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · Aug 23

Sweet Totoro! Lexi (our only dog) sends solidarity ☺️

A photo of a black and tan pug asleep on a blue blanket.