🎬 What Nolan’s Odyssey knows about trauma ‘We are trying to survive what has happened while life keeps making demands of us.’ Read my new piece on Talking Trauma - talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #Trauma #MentalHealth #Psychology #TalkingTrauma #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey #Empathy

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🧠 Read my new piece on empathy based on my appearance on @BBCRadio4’s The Moral Maze with @MichaelBuerk. “We simply allow ourselves to enter, for a moment, a world beyond our own.” Read it here: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #Empathy #MoralMaze #BBC #Radio4 #MentalHealth

💙 Wonderful article by @GeorgeMonbiot on ME describes what happens to huge numbers of people with this terrible illness. What he describes is exactly the experience of someone I know well and love. We need to highlight the suffering: 📢 🔗 theguardian.com/commentisfre… @guardian

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“In unequal power structures, there is often a hierarchy of pain.” My review of Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible by @alexianadlou is now out in the @ChurchTimes 📚 Read the full review here: churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2… #BookReview #Trauma

Waiting for the still, quiet voice within to emerge… 🕊️✨ To mark the 300th anniversary of @smitf_london, my new piece on Substack reflects on this remarkable place, its history, its openness ❤️ 🔗 talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #TalkingTrauma #StMartinInTheFields #300Years

📻 On BBC Radio 4 tonight at 8pm! I'll be speaking on Moral Maze on @BBCRadio4, where I’ll be interviewed about empathy, following my article in the @ChurchTimes 🧠💬 🔗 Tune in live or listen to the programme just after: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030c8… @JKPBooks @TweetsBTC

This exact minute, today, marks 81 years since the atom bomb was released over #Hiroshima. Only a few months ago I was standing there. My latest Substack reflects on my visit and what it taught me. Read here: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #Peace #Japan #NuclearDisarmament #Hope 🌏🕊️

"When you were upset as a child, who comforted you?" It's one of the most revealing questions I ask in psychotherapy. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Read the full piece here 🔗 talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #TalkingTrauma #Psychotherapy #TraumaRecovery #MentalHealth #Therapy

My latest feature for @ChurchTimes: ‘Faith: The need to remember well.’ ✍️ How do personal and collective traumas shape our loyalties, assumptions, and understanding of others? Read the full article here: churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2… #ChurchTimes #Trauma #Memory #Psychotherapy

🧠💙 Every three minutes in the UK, someone is diagnosed with #dementia. My latest #Substack explores what it can teach us about trauma, memory and, above all, human worth. Ft. stories of @jonsnowC4 and my own friends 🌼✨ Read: #Love Will Find a Way talkingtrauma.substack.com/p…

I recently met @amolrajan at his #DesertIslandDiscs event 🎙️ ✨ And now hearing him rapping on a street corner about the future and what might be possible, for those like #NEETS 💙 You are a force of nature, Amol, and an inspiration! 🙌 #Innovation #SocialImpact #Inspiration

🥔🌱 Are we creating the right conditions for children to grow? My latest piece of writing is inspired by Carl Rogers, comments by @robbiewilliams about children and smartphones, and @Sander_vdLinden 📱❤️ 📖 Read here: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #MentalHealth #Parenting

💙 I’m enormously moved to hear Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer speak for the tens of thousands of women impacted by forced adoption in England between 1949–76. 🕊️ Supporting @AdoptionApology 📖 My recent article on adoption: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #movementforadoptionapology

🦸‍♀️ In my latest Substack, I reflect on what true courage really looks like. With thanks to Justice Bright and to author Katherine Rundell, whose work on John Donne also inspired this piece. Read here: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #Trauma #MentalHealth #Psychotherapy #Courage #Hero

My latest Substack reflects on an extraordinary story from @BBCOne's Extraordinary Portraits, the Japanese concept of ikigai. Ft. authors @HectorGarciaOrg and @frmiralles inspiring work on Ikigai. Read here: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #Ikigai #MentalHealth

My letter published in @The_Tablet supports the idea that we do not live by facts alone... Ft. a book I love by @dr_mcgilchrist 🧠. 🔗 Read my letter here: thetablet.co.uk/letters/we-d… #Psychology #Philosophy #Neuroscience #wellbeing #mentalhealth

Finding Your Feet. 👣🇯🇵 In my new Substack piece, I explore Japanese #uwabaki, #reflexology, and #feet. Read more here: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… ✨ May interest you @OfficialMelB with your work: @womensaid @RefugeCharity @SolaceWomensAid @centrepointuk @fawcettsociety

'Who we are as humans does not always present itself fully formed.' 🌸⛰️ Read my second article inspired by my travels in Japan: talkingtrauma.substack.com/p… #Japan #MentalHealth #Travel #SelfDiscovery #MountFuji