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June 15, 2021
To Love Life, To Love It (Even When You Have No Stomach For It)
<p>When we are suffering with thoughts, feelings, body sensations, experiences, or memories, it can sometimes be useful to chart the journey of others who have struggled in similar ways.</p> <p>The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who I came to quite late in my reading life, never having studied philosophy as a subject, experiencing it for the most part a somewhat intimidating domain, struggled with health issues, both physical and mental, for much of the time he was on this planet.</p> <p>If he were alive today, I suspect he might have been diagnosed with having fibromyalgia, or another issue that highly sensitive folk often struggle with.</p> <p>What I find inspiring about his life is that he seems to have landed on a way, at least for a while, of finding value, meaning, and joy at the same time as being ill on a constant basis.</p> <p>I think this short chapter from the novelist <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nietzsche-Stefan-Zweig/dp/178227636X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GARF0W7Y18EI&dchild=1&keywords=stefan+zweig+nietzsche&qid=1623748341&sprefix=zweig+niet%2Caps%2C379&sr=8-1">Stefan Zweig’s recent book on Nietzsche</a> gets to the heart of a paradox that often arises in psychotherapy, but also in our lives in general: how to “love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it,” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151844/the-thing-is">as the poet Ellen Bass laments</a>, “and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands”?</p> <p>—</p> <p>Full text of this episode can be <a href="http://stevewasserman.co.uk/to-love-life-to-love-it-even-when-you-have-no-stomach-for-it/">found here</a>.</p> <p>Please feel free to get in touch either <a href="mailto:info@stevewasserman.co.uk">by email</a> or telephone (07804197605) if anything in this piece has spoken to you in some way, or to book a consultation.</p>
December 13, 2020
The Power of Now Therapy
<p>So I finally got around to reading The Power of Now.</p> <p>I had studiously avoided the text since it’s publication in 1999. I think because a part of me had made certain assumptions about this book.</p> <p>Let’s call that part of my mind The Intellectual Snob. The Intellectual Snob had assumed that Eck’s bestseller was nothing but minestrone soup. How could it be a “spiritual classic” in such a short time? Who cared if Oprah Herself was singing its praises – no, this phenomenon was nothing but excessively reheated minestrone soup. End of.</p> <p>And that’s not good soup by anyone’s standards, that’s soup made up of spiritual bits and bobs, cherry-picked from Eastern and Western traditions, strung together with a snappy, bumper-sticker slogan and delivered in my audiobook format through Mr T’s faintly creepy vocalizations.</p> <p>THE POWER OF NOW?</p> <p>Yadda yadda, yawn.</p> <p>(Forgive the tone of my Intellectual Snob, but that’s how they sound.)</p> <p>CONTINUE READING: <a href="http://stevewasserman.co.uk/therapy/the-power-of-now-therapy/">http://stevewasserman.co.uk/therapy/the-power-of-now-therapy/</a></p>
December 12, 2020
My SPLGE-R sign off (explained)
<p>For many, many years now, I have signed off all my emails to the people I care about with the word “warmly”.</p> <p>I can’t remember where I picked this up from. It was not my own invention. But at some point, I must have received an email from someone with a “warmly” preceding their name, and felt with great pleasure some of genuine warmth baked into the salutation. Being a human monkey, in true monkey-see, monkey-do spirit, I wanted to pass these warm vibes on! And hopefully I have.</p> <p>For me, “warmly”, is akin to saying “with love”. And why would we not end all our communications in that way, including our professional ones? I don’t know. But I do know that warmly has worked well for me, rather than the more common (and to my ears, less warm and loving) sign-offs such as “cheers” or “best” or “regards”, as well as the many different forms of “yours” (sincerely, faithfully, truly etc.).</p> <p>The problems with off-the-peg sign-offs though, including “warmly”, is that through usage they somehow lose their presence and emotional charge, becoming a kind of empty placeholder, a nothing.</p> <p>So just for fun, I thought I might come up with a few new sign-offs, starting with this one: SPLGE-R.</p> <p><strong>Continue reading: </strong><a href="http://stevewasserman.co.uk/my-splge-r-sign-off-explained/"><strong>http://stevewasserman.co.uk/my-splge-r-sign-off-explained/</strong></a></p>
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