I am reading The Ethics Of Beauty by Timothy Patitsas right now, and he discusses the insufficiencies of "talk therapy"-- his thoughts are so good! He talks a lot about Beauty as the real healer, specifically for people with PTSD. It's a tome, but it's so worth reading. I just cannot stop talking about it!
You're doing a great job with your kids. Having three small children felt like dying to me, but here I am, still alive, and they are 13, 12, and 11 now, and thriving (though I still feel like I'm recovering from those years, haha). <3
Thanks, Abby. Love all those thoughts and….your garden is vibrant and wildly beautiful and I love it…but you already know that. Thankful for all of you.
As a mom with kids in talk therapy, I have many thoughts on this subject. I really appreciate the things you have said. Sometimes I wonder if the talk therapy, which I do support and pay for, causes additional trauma because of the obsession with their inner self. I have written a whole essay to them (that I've kept to myself!) that might be titled "do-therapy." It includes many of the points that you mentioned in your essay including going to church.
Your "chaos garden" looks like a straight-up joy garden to me, and all the more so since we're in the earliest stages of re-nurturing the kitchen garden right next to our house and making it habitable for ground cover and vegetables. And that shade! on the house! I feel renewed inspiration for the toddler trees I've been tending.
Talk therapy is beginning to feel to me like a very limited form of therapy. Useful for a time and in certain contexts, but I also see it as a potential barrier to restoring the integration of body and mind. We've all gotten so damn good at talking about ourselves. That doesn't feel like a good thing. And yet a good therapist is certainly an enrichment.
I view talk therapy like physical therapy. After an injury, they give you the tools to stretch, strengthen, and keep yourself healthy. With all but the worst injuries, you shouldn't need them indefinitely.
I am reading The Ethics Of Beauty by Timothy Patitsas right now, and he discusses the insufficiencies of "talk therapy"-- his thoughts are so good! He talks a lot about Beauty as the real healer, specifically for people with PTSD. It's a tome, but it's so worth reading. I just cannot stop talking about it!
You're doing a great job with your kids. Having three small children felt like dying to me, but here I am, still alive, and they are 13, 12, and 11 now, and thriving (though I still feel like I'm recovering from those years, haha). <3
Thanks, Abby. Love all those thoughts and….your garden is vibrant and wildly beautiful and I love it…but you already know that. Thankful for all of you.
As a mom with kids in talk therapy, I have many thoughts on this subject. I really appreciate the things you have said. Sometimes I wonder if the talk therapy, which I do support and pay for, causes additional trauma because of the obsession with their inner self. I have written a whole essay to them (that I've kept to myself!) that might be titled "do-therapy." It includes many of the points that you mentioned in your essay including going to church.
Your "chaos garden" looks like a straight-up joy garden to me, and all the more so since we're in the earliest stages of re-nurturing the kitchen garden right next to our house and making it habitable for ground cover and vegetables. And that shade! on the house! I feel renewed inspiration for the toddler trees I've been tending.
Talk therapy is beginning to feel to me like a very limited form of therapy. Useful for a time and in certain contexts, but I also see it as a potential barrier to restoring the integration of body and mind. We've all gotten so damn good at talking about ourselves. That doesn't feel like a good thing. And yet a good therapist is certainly an enrichment.
I view talk therapy like physical therapy. After an injury, they give you the tools to stretch, strengthen, and keep yourself healthy. With all but the worst injuries, you shouldn't need them indefinitely.
Your chaos garden is wonderful! Its doing great stuff for the local ecology! And it looks heavenly.