HeyJaredIt's Not What You Think
Personal insights (and conflicts) from the mind of a professional psychologist
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Before Sunrise, After Smartphones. Discuss. (opens the original)
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There are very few films that, no matter how many times I watch them, I blissfully disappear into a world that fits my fantasy like a blanket. A spark of connection, the call to adventure, the reciprocity of two souls dancing in deep conversation. I was 15 years old when I first saw Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise. I was highly impressionable and at that hungry age of impatience. Still a child but desperate to be out in the world doing grown-up things and having grown-up adventures. Adventure
In Defence of Fancying Our Friends (opens the original)
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Ever since Harry Burns made his memorable declaration in When Harry Met Sally, debates have waged back and forth as to whether men and women can ever just be friends without sex getting in the way.Whether authentic friendship can exist with the gender we’re attracted to is not interesting to me - of course it can! But does sexual attraction, in one way or another, really always get in the way?Subscribe now<a class="image-link image2 is-vie
And Then The Hero Comes Along... (opens the original)
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Imagine a story so strong that people are still telling it 3000 years later. Imagine a tale so rich that each chapter is a standalone legend. Imagine Christopher Nolan gets involved.There are lots of irate people storming different corners of the internet right now, cursing inaccuracies in Nolan’s version of The Odyssey. Their indignation ignores the classic tale’s roots in oral tradition - folklore that is crafted collectively through song, performance, spoken poetry and - eventually - written
Move Over Therapy Speak, It's Time for A.I. Speak (opens the original)
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Even before the internet united us all under one big fat umbrella of content, we found a shared language that, usually, emerged from the macro trends of the time. In the last decade, much to my chagrin as a psychotherapist, we integrated wellness culture by adopting a cloying vernacular most commonly recognisable as ‘therapy speak’. You know the one I mean. The one that ‘has capacity’ and ‘hears you’, even when it’s ‘not your responsibility to hold’. The one that puts in a boundary because it do
THE INVITE: Who's Knocking At the Door? (opens the original)
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***WARNING: This post is riddled with spoilers. If you haven’t seen this yet - stop - turn around - go see the film*** Let me state upfront that I loved this film.Anyone who’s seen the trailer for The Invite will gather that it centres around a dinner party in which surprise revelations spice up the evening. From context cues, we are to assume that the ‘invite’ will regard sex, Seth Rogen will be comedically uncomfortable, and hilarity will ensue. …and we’d be correct.But the brilliance of this
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