November 2011
4 posts
“He is the true artist whose life is his material.”
– Thoreau
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
October 2011
2 posts
August 2011
1 post
The Neuroscience of Changing Toxic Thinking... →
psychotherapy:
A very helpful overview of the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and the role our own thoughts play in determining how we act and feel.
Excerpt:
Whether you understand its messages or not, your subconscious continually communicates with you through emotion-based action-signals to let you know where you are in relation to where you want to be. You’re not...
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
5 posts
psychologically speaking: We grow, including the... →
We grow, including the intellectual and the spiritual, without being deeply aware of it. In fact, some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It…
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Music Monday: Xaphoon Jones
Time for the second installment of Music Monday, a weekly blog post by yours truly about the various music artists I recommend checking out.
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This week’s highlight is Xaphoon Jones, 1/2 of the...
April 2011
11 posts
Music Monday : Saxon Shore
A long time ago, I decided to start writing about the music I listen to. I figured it was a good way for people to get an idea of who I was musically. Unfortunately, I never actually found the time to start writing. The pressures of school have kept my creativity at bay for the past four years, but now that I’m about to graduate I find it can finally feel free to fly. (I’m also a...
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via psychotherapy)
“Nothing more, nothing less, therapy is the art of teaching someone to overhear...”
– Stephen Metcalf (via psychotherapy)
copycats:
Rolling In The Deep (Skeet & Tito...
“My experience is whatever I agree to attend to.”
– William James
The simplest and best way to put it, by one of the original founders of modern psychology. The things we choose to attend to in our minds - whether positive or negative - ultimately become how we create the story of our life.
(via psychotherapy)
March 2011
2 posts
The Power of Lonely (Boston Globe) →
psychotherapy:
by Leon Neyfakh
You hear it all the time: We humans are social animals. We need to spend time together to be happy and functional, and we extract a vast array of benefits from maintaining intimate relationships and associating with groups. Collaborating on projects at work makes us smarter and more creative. Hanging out with friends makes us more emotionally mature and better...
February 2011
17 posts
“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via psychotherapy)
Radiohead - Codex (Mojib remix) →
Good stuff.
Cee Lo Green - Robot Sex →
Check out this funky tune.
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy)
Think Like a Shrink (Psychology Today) →
psychotherapy:
Yes, you too can see through the defenses people hide behind. To guide you, just consult the handy primer below. Put together by psychiatrist Emanuel H. Rosen, it distills years of Freudian analytical training into a few simple principles that make sense of our psyches.
I have always thought it horribly unfortunate that there is such a tremendous gap between psychiatry and...
The Best of Kanye West Mix →
808sanduzi:
OMFG. if you’re into Yeezy, you need to play this.
cakeface:
dumb i sound ||| sufjan stevens
