I have a beard (George Michael, circa Faith rather than Methuselah). I work as a psychotherapist (stevewasserman.co.uk). I know lots of big words and interesting concepts from the excessive amounts of reading and writing, and staring at my own (and other’s) navels, which I do on a daily basis. Does this make me a wise human animal? Often not. But sometimes, for ten minutes or so...
Wise Blood
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I have a beard (George Michael, circa Faith rather than Methuselah). I work as a psychotherapist (stevewasserman.co.uk). I know lots of big words and interesting concepts from the excessive amounts of reading and writing, and staring at my own (and other’s) navels, which I do on a daily basis. Does this make me a wise human animal? Often not. But sometimes, for ten minutes or so...
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June 20, 2021
Amor Fati
<p>Accepting the mixed-bag Now of our lives. Hard.</p> <p>--</p> <p>THE THING IS<br> <br> to love life, to love it even<br> when you have no stomach for it<br> and everything you’ve held dear<br> crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,<br> your throat filled with the silt of it.<br> When grief sits with you, its tropical heat<br> thickening the air, heavy as water<br> more fit for gills than lungs;<br> when grief weights you down like your own flesh<br> only more of it, an obesity of grief,<br> you think, How can a body withstand this?<br> Then you hold life like a face<br> between your palms, a plain face,<br> no charming smile, no violet eyes,<br> and you say, yes, I will take you<br> I will love you, again.</p> <p>-Ellen Bass<br> -- </p> <p>Full text of this episode can be found here: <a href="http://stevewasserman.co.uk/amor-fati/">http://stevewasserman.co.uk/amor-fati/</a></p> <p>--</p> <p><strong>Audio used in episode (in order of occurence): </strong></p> <p>-Jon & the Nightriders - Rumble at Waikiki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41YvSrk5paQ&t=81s</p> <p>-Can't Stop The Feeling (Justin Timberlake) - Original Piano Arrangement by Maucoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpOfn4rDcU</p> <p>-ET: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wcggztq9SspsBeXcrnHZo?highlight=spotify:track:3VVilIGlUJ6tIirr7GGCHs</p> <p>-Night Flight - Say Yes (Elliot Smith Cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQ0ac8A8hk</p> <p>-A Day In The Life (Orchestra Overdub): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecybFp71bnc</p> <p>-Reading of The Thing Is (Ellen Bass): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JONWgsZ6vm8</p> <p>-Steven C. Hayes talking about Feeling & Experiential Avoidance: https://www.soundstrue.com/collections/authors-steven-c-hayes/products/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy</p> <p>-Extract from Bernard Malamud's A New Life: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140186816/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+new+life+malamud&qid=1624180687&sr=8-1</p> <p>-Jane Hirshfield reading her poem Amor Fati: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92039/amor-fati </p> <p>-Extract from The Gay Science: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Gay-Science-The-Joyful-Wisdom-Audiobook/B01EWAXDI4?qid=1624180836&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=ZN7BMAJ44S0DHR5PPNXE</p> <p>-Susan Buffam reading her poem Amor Fati: https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/amor-fati-4435</p> <p>-“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye, A Poetry Film by Ana Pérez López: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFLQOOiAqxQ&t=15s</p> <p>-Elliott Smith ~ Say Yes (Live in Stockholm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOnHEApbjV0</p> <p>-Itzhak Perlman plays Fiddler on the Roof (John Williams Los Angeles Philharmonic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h745la-Lo1I</p> <p>-Neil De Grasse Tyson giving an overview of our 65 million year-old hominid evolutionary history: https://samharris.org/podcasts/252-alone-universe/</p> <p>-Can't Stop The Feeling by Justin Timberlake Live (Downbeat LA Cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGz7Nbaavgg&ab_channel=DownbeatDownbeat</p> <p>-Hakeem Oluseyi waxing lyrical about astrophysics: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-quantum-life-with-hakeem-oluseyi/</p> <p><br></p>
May 21, 2021
Setbacks
<p>What my friend Charlie taught me about having a "good" break-up (or any other painful setback in life).</p> <p>Text version can be found here: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/4793-2/</p>
May 15, 2021
Trauma
<p>What I have learnt from my dog-child Max about trauma.</p> <p>Text version of this piece: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/trauma/</p>
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