Never meet your heroes. Especially when they are geriatric.

Always down to chat with a fellow Broken Social Scene lover.

My alma mater! I was at that talk. Small world. Thanks for sharing.

How my predictions for 2024 turned out:

#booksky

This sounds like Internal Family Systems terminology. I think that's such a useful framework.

Love's Executioner (dated now) is the book that made me want to become a therapist. Still remember vividly being floored (at 24) by his elegant "givens of existence."

Do you have Kottler's On Being a Therapist on your shelf yet? Pairs well with Yalom.

I'm personally not sure "anxiety" can be diminished/ negotiated with if it is framed in the language of antagonism. Anxiety is often helpful, and connected to excitement. We work with anxiety in pre- and post- arousal states. Need a game plan for each state we find ourselves in.

To shift the metaphor away from "battle." Our relationship with anxiety needs to be reclaimed.

Tolkiencore

Not sure if this is helpful, but when I introduce the notion of mediation to clients, I do it via the concept of diaphramic breathing and then teach "box breathing." "Meditation" (the word) seems to turn a client on or off. Neither response seems excellent.

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