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.The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who I came to quite late

The Power of Now Therapy

Dec 13th, 2020 20m 10s

So I finally got around to reading The Power of Now.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.Let’s call that part of my mind The Intellectual S

My SPLGE-R sign off (explained)

Dec 12th, 2020 19m 22s

For many, many years now, I have signed off all my emails to the people I care about with the word “warmly”.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 someon

Safer In Numbers

Aug 1st, 2020 6m 19s

Therapists, sex work, solipsism. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

Society Outside

Aug 1st, 2020 1m 22s

Humans as plants - on a 12/12 phasic light-cycle. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

Tacet!

Aug 1st, 2020 2m 1s

John Cage. Silence. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

This Countryside Right Here

Jul 18th, 2020 10m 26s

The solace of perspective. “Burning” CDs in the 90s. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

The Ideal Listener

Jul 18th, 2020 4m 24s

Are you my ideal listener? Am I your ideal speaker? Or maybe it's the other way around? If you ever find out: [email protected] Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

This Very Simple Swing

Jul 18th, 2020 2m 51s

I admire a very simple swing. I then swing on the very simple swing and get more than I bargained for.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

Because I Drew Him Out Of The Water

Jul 18th, 2020 4m 3s

1. A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket f

Ancestors

Jul 18th, 2020 21m 49s

An exchange with my father about our ancestors and the benefits (or not) of dwelling on the past in this way. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

Everything In Our Bodies, Everything In Our Experience, Leads Us Towards Liberation In Some Way

Jul 17th, 2020 3m 55s

Psychotherapist, artist, and wilderness guide, Cara Lai talking on this theme for the Ten Percent Happier podcast: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/cara-lai-265--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/g

The Only Home We Have - Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot

Jul 5th, 2020 5m 11s

“We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.The aggregate of all our joys and

Deep Reading, Listening, and Watching

Jul 4th, 2020 9m 27s

If you'd like to listen to the whole discussion between Ezra Klein and Nicholas Carr (I'd very much recommend it, a fascinating chat) that you can do that here: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/7/1/21308153/the-ezra-klein-show-the-shallows-twi

Walking Barefoot Outdoors

Jun 27th, 2020 3m 46s

The solace of feeling the Earth beneath our feet without any shoes, socks or stockings getting in the way of that contact.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glimmersandglows/message

What Are Glimmers and Glows?

Jun 5th, 2020 3m 2s

GLIMMERS: those moments or micro-moments when we feel safe and connected, calm and social (Deb Dana).GLOWS: a slightly extended version of the above :-)For more Deb & her wonderful work on emotion regulation through the lens of polyvagal theo

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