For readers of No Cure for Being Human and Simple Self-Care for Therapists, a witty and compassionate field guide to the 10 realms of grief–and how to navigate them yourself and with clients.
Spinning Wheels
This story opens in the early nineteen sixties, at a fictional isolated Catholic Convent somewhere in North Wales. As the story gently unfolds, the main characters honestly start to consider the foundations, and tribal marking of organised religion, especially of their own. (Devout Christians will find this book to be a very challenging read.) Calmly they each discard their belief that Christ was the only Son of God. Christ’s message however; ‘love Thy neighbour as Thyself’ is happily acknowledged as the only way of ensuring the continuing survival of the Human Race. Weaving around this main theme are several honest, if rather robust, love stories. At appropriate points, the debilitating effect of loneliness is sympathetically portrayed, and arguments against committing suicide are also presented. Kirkus reviews: – An engaging tale. The story is strong and the erotica is nicely balanced by the humanity of the characters
Two A right how dye do and no mistake
Three Sufficient for the day the evil thereof
Five The rusty shackles fall away
Six Three mistakes too many
Seven Separate ways
Eight A visit to the Accountant
Nine A prayer is answered
Ten kinnellyer Reverence
Twentyfive Just Peggy and me
Twentysix The second Communion
Twentyseven The returning wanderers
Twentyeight A dream comes true
Twentynine A Grand Cosmic Dance
Thirty Spaceship Earth
Thirtyone England is a garden
Thirtytwo The most advanced species
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Twelve Purgatory n a place of temporary suffering
Thirteen The start of the next chapter?
Fourteen The loneliness of the celibate life
Fifteen Peace of mind at last
Sixteen A state of Grace
Seventeen One of Gods creatures
Eighteen A light at the end of the tunnel?
Nineteen The man on the cross
Twenty Moderation in all things
Twentyone While the cat is away
Twentytwo Second thoughts again
Twentythree A first parachute jump
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Part Four
Thirtyfour The real world
Thirtyfive The Grizzly Bear and the Golddigger
Thirtysix Beauty and the Beast
Thirtyseven Dont cry just try not to do it again
Thirtyeight That blasted girl with the blasted red hair
Thirtynine Patience is rewarded
Forty A heavy weight is finally removed
Fortyone A new chapter begins
Fortytwo Contentedly spinning wheels at last
Epilogue 1st August 2015
A final thought for the future
The Grieving Therapist : Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When It Feels Like the End of the World
For readers of No Cure for Being Human and Simple Self-Care for Therapists, a witty and compassionate field guide to the 10 realms of grief–and how to navigate them yourself and with clients.
How do you practice good therapy when it’s the end of the world as we know it…and no one feels fine?
The planet is burning, friends and family are falling to cults and QAnon, and we’re all living through the collective trauma of a global pandemic. Among therapists and healers, burnout is rampant; hopelessness and despair are, too. In The Grieving Therapist, psychotherapists Larisa Garski, LMFT, and Justine Mastin, LMFT, give voice to the difficulties of therapising in today’s world–and offer a grief-informed framework for taking care of yourself as you take care of others.
Informed by narrative, internal family systems, fanfic, and trauma-sensitive therapy, Garski and Mastin examine what it means to be a therapist at the end of the world (or what feels like it). They break down 10 realms of grief that are critical to understand and work with today, but likely weren’t taught to you in therapy school. Each chapter includes:
- Grieving tools that can be adapted for both client and therapist
- Tips for supervisors and supervisees
- Skills for maintaining healthy outside-the-office relationships
- Support for current therapy students (and therapists new to the field)
- Advice on how to hold space and work with clients who have the same questions—and are navigating the same issues—as you
- Meditations on love, life, death, and connection
With humor, compassion, irreverence, and more than a little whimsy, The Grieving Therapist shows you how to show up for yourself, and your clients–in your own full humanity, amidst it all.
