Slow Saturday Thoughts | September 16, 2023
wholesome hosting duties
There won’t be Slow Saturday Thoughts posts or regular Wednesday posts for the next 3 weeks since I’ll be jet setting to Bali then Kyoto in 4 days!! I’ll see y’all done with photos from the trip 😉. And because I’m a bit stressed with the trip being so soon, this post is extra extra short, but hopefully you get a little nugget of something from it
… I sent this free coffee shop home hangout idea to some friends as an idea for my next hosting duties. I’m just trying to do all the wholesome things with my friends!
… It hit me that talk therapy is probably not the best long term support for me. The constant repetition of feelings made me feel like no changes were being made (besides understanding what things kept bothering me). So this is just a reminder that there are other forms of therapy— somatic practices, EMDR, movement as therapy, art therapy— that we can experiment with
… Thanks so much to @KathrynVercillo for including me in their digest of Substacks that write on art and mental health 💛. Check out the work of other writers who were included at https://substack.com/notes/post/p-137073106
Oh and PS - hope your trip is amazing, inspiring, refreshing and joyful.
Thanks for the mention. Much appreciated.
Love that you highlighted other forms of therapy. Talk therapy was useful for me for a long time ... but my biggest defense mechanism is that I tend tot intellectualize so ultimately I could talk for years and not let it reach my heart which has meant that more expressive art, movement and somatic experiences have been critical to my own healing.