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Plus, some early posts
I’m currently riding a train from Boston to Rochester for my traditional Memorial Day weekend with friends, so I’m not quite up to writing a big post this week exploring a deep topic. It is a really lovely way to get around, though (the drive sucks!), and it gives me the chance to write that the car wouldn’t. So I figured I’d pass along the link to buy the videos from last week’s Polyamory and Communication Summit, and share a few older posts I recommend if you’re new here (welcome!).
Get the full day of interviews
Here’s the link to buy the recordings from the other day, in case you missed it! You’ll get the videos of each half-hour interview between Elizabeth Cunningham and twelve relationship and sexuality coaches, therapists, and others, including, of course, me.
Getting interviewed can be fun
Welcome new readers! I’m really glad to see you. The summit that happened Wednesday online was a good time! I don’t know when the videos will become available, but I’ll let you know as soon as I do. The whole thing seems to have been brought together pretty rapidly, and as such, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve done some workshops and such in the past,…
Here’s some more stuff to read
The post above has links to some good stuff, but here are a few more to make up for the lean writing this week!
What my work looks like
This early post talks about how my therapy practice has evolved, not just since the pandemic but since I finished my training in 2012.
Somatic Therapy in a Post-Covid World
Like so many of us, since around April 2020, my work has been completely remote. I went from meeting people in my office to befriending the megalith Zoom, from perceiving the full bandwidth of face, body language, hand motions, tension, and emotional energy to heads in boxes, occasionally interrupted by cats. A whole lot of psychotherapy has gone remote…
What trusting a therapist looks like for the traumatized
Also from early in this newsletter’s life, an essay on the tightrope walk between a client and therapist when it comes to establishing enough trust to start healing.
Rupture and repair
Trust. It’s probably the number one criterion when we’re talking about what we need from a therapist. After all, how are you supposed to get someone to help you change or move anything about yourself or your life, if you can’t trust that someone? But what do we actually mean by trust? What is it that we hope for when we start talking to a professional a…
Does dissociation get a bad rap?
This one talks about some heavy stuff, so, content note (it’s at the top of the article, too). But it’s one of my favorite topics: the way dissociation is a natural protective mechanism built into us, and isn’t always “bad.”
Dissociation and its discontents
[Content warning: mention of severe dissociative episodes, suicidality, childhood trauma, drug overdose, and alcohol.] “It’s a dissociative technique, to be sure,” my therapist said to me after offering the image of a parade passing noisily by during an EMDR session. “But dissociation gets a bad rap.”
Back next week
See you for some newer stuff next week!