I love how Benson sits close to me during therapy. He brought his nibble paper and nibbled it for 50 minutes straight.
When the hour was up, he looked up at me with the most schmoopie of faces. We were both self-soothing!
I'm so glad this dog wrecked my Lady Bachelor life.
TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: April 14, 2025 at 10:04AM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY
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#haiku by new contributor, Paul Callus @callus.safi47 . Paul is a retired teacher who lives in Malta, EU. He has been active in the literary field for around 50 years. He writes poetry, short stories, & song lyrics, mostly in English, Maltese, & Italian. His work has been widely published & anthologized. He is also a translator & proofreader. #group #poetry #senryu #therapy #river #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #malta
Embracing Therapeutic Laziness in a Burnout Culture
How Slow Living, Mindful Productivity, and Anti-Hustle Culture Are Redefining Success. In a world where “busy” is a badge of honor, burnout has become a silent pandemic.
https://planetlifehacks.com/embracing-therapeutic-laziness-in-a-burnout-culture/
I can honestly say, "I know who I am today because I knew you," But knowing you is also what caused my grief two years later. Join me and my therapists as we talk about its return.
#mentalhealth #grief #therapy #griefawareness #healingjourney #stopghosting #lifeafterloss #wicked #sundaysermon #love
https://rickollie.com/2025/04/13/navigating-life-after-heartache-and-illness/
followup: basically what i learned in this training was
This tells us a lot about how the lives of an increasing number of human beings are so empty of social contact with other human beings that they need to enter into false relationships with chatbots governed by neural networks and statistical probabilities...
"More and more of us are using LLMs to find purpose and improve ourselves.
Therapy and Companionship is now the #1 use case. This use case refers to two distinct but related use cases. Therapy involves structured support and guidance to process psychological challenges, while companionship encompasses ongoing social and emotional connection, sometimes with a romantic dimension. I grouped these together last year and this year because both fulfill a fundamental human need for emotional connection and support.
Many posters talked about how therapy with an AI model was helping them process grief or trauma. Three advantages to AI-based therapy came across clearly: It’s available 24/7, it’s relatively inexpensive (even free to use in some cases), and it comes without the prospect of judgment from another human being. The AI-as-therapy phenomenon has also been noticed in China. And although the debate about the full potential of computerized therapy is ongoing, recent research offers a reassuring perspective—that AI-delivered therapeutic interventions have reached a level of sophistication such that they’re indistinguishable from human-written therapeutic responses.
A growing number of professional services are now being partially delivered by generative AI—from therapy and medical advice to legal counsel, tax guidance, and software development."
https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025?ab=HP-hero-latest-2
https://www.europesays.com/uk/13456/ Science-backed supplement leaves shoppers ‘less bloated’ and without ‘need to snack’ #Food #Health #Nutrition #Tea #Therapy #UK #UnitedKingdom
I have to admit I thought long and hard about including the 1st photo in this post as I look and felt so vulnerable but then I realised that I should because that’s the whole point.
Vulnerable is exactly how I’m feeling and have been feeling for a good week and that feeling will be high up there until after my birthday on the 23rd of this month. Now that I’m exploring my feelings instead of ignoring them, I’m aware that I feel this way every year. My birthday has always been tied up with feelings of rejection, pain and loss. I can honestly say I haven’t had many birthdays at all that have been joyful but those years that were I hold very dear because they are so rare.
I have decided to pick through all of the pain so that I can finally find peace, hopefully. As birthdays are supposed to be celebrations (so I’m told) I would like for this one to be the last painful one.
This morning I found a bubble blower and I sat feeling extremely vulnerable and I blew bubbles. I connected with my always sad and confused inner child and let her feel peace. The chirping of the birds, the sun on her skin, the beauty of the bubbles in the sunshine and that magical popping sound. No pressure, no anything, just being exactly in the moment of beauty and wonder. I think allowing my inner child out is key to healing, she went through so much and deserves to feel joy, laughter and freedom to be her without judgement. I say without judgement because it’s something I’ve always done since I was a child and it’s stifled me as an adult.
I have a week or so to figure out how but I’m going to try and let this birthday be one for my inner child, to see if I can help us to heal. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthjourney #healing #healingfromtrauma #healingisaprocess #innerchild #innerchildtherapy #therapy #findingjoy #findingpeace #workinprogress
I’ve just heard someone tell me that their therapist literally uses ChatGPT to help them give clients life recommendations. Not even web search, not books, not studies. ChatGPT.
What the actual fuck is happening.
There's been quite a bit of attention to this story "What is a Safe Person" lately, So I thought I'd go ahead and reshare.
#SafePerson #SafePlace #Healing #HelpingOthers #Therapy #Therapist #GoodReads #informative #loveyourself #healing #selfcare #love #safeperson #therapyhelps #healingjourney
https://rickollie.com/2024/08/16/what-is-a-safe-person-and-how-important-are-they/
Brandy Butler: „It all started when I read an article in the New York Times about psychedelic-assisted therapy. At the time, my mother was already seriously ill but still alive. I thought: this kind of therapy would be something for her.“
„MITOSIS - an LSD Opera“ von #brandybutler/ 23.&24. April @Kasernebasel #basel #bicycleday #lsd #musical #therapy #theater
Telehealth sessions with clients who have new puppies are the best kind of telehealth sessions.
1. You and yourself form your being. But by that, what am I meaning?
Dualism is moot, no schism is true,
and identity's not all it's seeming.
2. Post-cholecystectomy [ko le sis tek toe mee]. This back pain will be the death of me.
"Right shoulder pain" became "mild strain"?
Docs ask how they're "enemy".
3. Counselling Level 3 coursework at this point feels like mild torture.
How can I stand 'Review Action Plan'
when my options send me to torpor?
4. UPR, ethics, and feel what you notice (for therapy, real).
Set forth Carl Rogers, Person-Centred's starter.
Humanistic counsell -- his whole deal.
5. I say Integrative Therapy
mixes together all three
approaches today taught in the UK:
Per-Centered, PsyDynamic, CBT.
6. Level 4 is the min you need right now to practise therapy.
You can still joke out quite a belter, as long as your role stays "helper".
One more word for client: "helpee".
7. For me, relearning MMA (medical-wise) has stayed "nay".
I have no energy, nor makeup on peak.
Who knows? Maybe... one day...
8. Just like spoiling a plot, repeat triggerers get blocked.
You ought aim not cause harm, if wish you to spare alarm.
Or... had we forgot?
9. Through others do we know ourself?
With lovers, we learn what we're dealt.
Your bodymind chooses which traits it loses,
plus those for which you far delve.
10. Sometimes you can guess your traumas. Meds' side effects include nausea.
Bothered ye to get yourselves through.
I never unlocked Bozja.
11. You can not make me start work. Although I feel like a jerk.
My tutor awaits the far-past-due date.
On this seat, I stay and I lurk.
12. Nonbinary goes known. Get up here, come, have a go.
"Are you masculine?"
"Are you feminine?"
Robot, femboy, and crone!
13. Gender is what your brain be, while expression is acting, you see.
Attraction to parts, updates and larks.
Oh no, sexuality!
14. Asexuals may be or not queer.
All aces stay welcome here.
Agender folk face too many jokes.
Aromantics write slash fics or jeer.
15. It's okay to ask for help. Whether or not you feel well.
While systems are limited, your needs stay existent.
We need to thunderclap-yell.
Therapy dogs show love to stressed-out students
Exam season can be a difficult time for students, so Saint Mary's University in Halifax has recruited some canine companions to help ease the anxiety. Amy Smith stopped by campus to check out its therapy dog drop-in session.
#school #animals #therapy #exam #Halifax
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6717685?cmp=rss
Here's the official info on the new Bachelor of Science program in Psychedelic Studies that I helped to create (and will be teaching in) at California Institute of Integral Studies.
#psychedelics #psychology #consciousness #cognition #academia #education #therapy #mind #psychedelicresearch
I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):
Content warning: Childhood trauma
https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111490472007434009
https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111187258270534141
I want to protect children.
I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.
I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.
That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.
'gaza is human', episode 11: music therapy with ahmed muin.
#freePalestine #gaza #music #therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kCCUuNO9rM
During group therapy today I was reminded that on the outside you cannot fathom the hurt and pain that some people are carrying around.
Please be mindful of others. You cannot know what their current struggles are.
And if someone opens up a little bit and asks for help. Help where and how you can. While keeping an eye on your own boundaries and self care.
Be accepting, and be a Samwise.
