So moving, such a profound expression of where you are at this moment in your practice, Ruth. It is hard to make transitions while truly honouring the past and the roads travelled to reach this point. You have so beautifully expressed your story here... I wish you all the very best as you fill in the details of this vision of the future. The temporary nature of a tent evokes possibilities that will emerge as you live into them... I love your writing. Thank you.
Thank you Sylvia. Possibilities that emerge as you live into them...yes, exactly this. But as you say it is hard, and of course I feel things acutely. But it's OK. It feels good and right and abundant. I hope you are recovering? x
Thank you, Ruth. It's been a nasty 'flu with a few complications. I hope to get back into writing, etc., soon... Just taking things very slowly... patiently... x
As a therapist who has been away from my practice for three years and am now circling around what it looks like to return a new, thank you for this generosity of sharing. So very beautiful and renewing to read. 💛
Thank you Lisa. That's very heartening to read in solidarity, as I find your writing so invigorating and refreshing: it's very valuable for me to read other therapists speaking honestly about their human struggles. There are very few who hold that tension so humanely if you ask me, while still expressing a true affinity and relationship to the work. I understand that circling and I hope that when the time feels right you will find a perch on which to land :) xx
"It is also then, simply, a place to feel into what hurts. The therapeutic invitation is the same
as it has always been. We meet, we listen, we do the deep work. In this respect, nothing changes. What can we understand about this anxiety? What is numb in this depression? What has happened to you, I am listening."
I like the way it eventually boils down to this - doing the deep work. As someone who has also practiced as a therapist, I really 'get' this. Thank you for sharing some of your supervision deliberation s and thoughts around this change.
Thank you, Shaz. Yes, I think it always has to boil down to this for me. I can't do it any other way. While I can do the 'lighter' end of stuff, it always ends up being a fairly deep offering. Once a therapist always a therapist I think. xx
Transitions are hard, especially when our heart was planted in the previous iteration. What you're settling into now is gorgeous. I know, in time, you will attach to this one, too. The tent!! Oh, the tent!!
This line above all the other beautiful lines, stood out: "What can’t be healed through listening first?" Thank you, Ruth.
Thank you Elizabeth. I think time will very deeply attach me to the new space, and already I want to be there all the time so it's all feeling very positive.
I really do believe listening is the only place to begin. I am convinced of it, as hippie or old fashioned as it may sound to some :) xx
I can imagine being inside this gentle space with nature all around me and feeling connected to it all.How much easier it would be to access all those deep hidden places within yourself than in some of the cold bare rooms where therapy is often offered. I am sure it will be wonderful xx
I love the way you are always evolving, always learning, always open and curious. And most of all I love the originality and quality of your writing - nobody could ever mistake it for an AI production
"It is not a place to close off-from the world, but to find a way to re-enter it..." I loved that line, Ruth. It struck me deep as I too stand in a transitional space in my own life. Your tent looks glorious and if I lived closer I'd love to come and sit in circle with you. Wishing you all the best for this new season and being fully you.
Thank you so much Kelly. I am very sure I would have enjoyed that :) But in spirit, eh! I hope you find a way to be in the transitional space too, rather than collapse the tension of it before time... xx
I have indeed found a way. I am embarking upon a little pilgrimage of the peninsula where I live. A little bit each month along the shoreline as I step into the next season of becoming.
So moving, such a profound expression of where you are at this moment in your practice, Ruth. It is hard to make transitions while truly honouring the past and the roads travelled to reach this point. You have so beautifully expressed your story here... I wish you all the very best as you fill in the details of this vision of the future. The temporary nature of a tent evokes possibilities that will emerge as you live into them... I love your writing. Thank you.
Thank you Sylvia. Possibilities that emerge as you live into them...yes, exactly this. But as you say it is hard, and of course I feel things acutely. But it's OK. It feels good and right and abundant. I hope you are recovering? x
Thank you, Ruth. It's been a nasty 'flu with a few complications. I hope to get back into writing, etc., soon... Just taking things very slowly... patiently... x
Urgh. It sounds miserable Sylvia. I'm sorry. X
Beautiful, it is regenerative just reading about it ❤️
Oh that's lovely, thank you ❤️
My heart is with you, Ruth, with your grief, your fear for the unknown, with your longing for new ways that will open for yourself and your clients…
Thank you Ivan 🙏🏻 new chapters await their writing...😊
As a therapist who has been away from my practice for three years and am now circling around what it looks like to return a new, thank you for this generosity of sharing. So very beautiful and renewing to read. 💛
Thank you Lisa. That's very heartening to read in solidarity, as I find your writing so invigorating and refreshing: it's very valuable for me to read other therapists speaking honestly about their human struggles. There are very few who hold that tension so humanely if you ask me, while still expressing a true affinity and relationship to the work. I understand that circling and I hope that when the time feels right you will find a perch on which to land :) xx
"It is also then, simply, a place to feel into what hurts. The therapeutic invitation is the same
as it has always been. We meet, we listen, we do the deep work. In this respect, nothing changes. What can we understand about this anxiety? What is numb in this depression? What has happened to you, I am listening."
I like the way it eventually boils down to this - doing the deep work. As someone who has also practiced as a therapist, I really 'get' this. Thank you for sharing some of your supervision deliberation s and thoughts around this change.
Thank you, Shaz. Yes, I think it always has to boil down to this for me. I can't do it any other way. While I can do the 'lighter' end of stuff, it always ends up being a fairly deep offering. Once a therapist always a therapist I think. xx
Yes agree with the last statement!
Your new spade is beautiful. Alongside the heart break may you find connection to continue your work.
Thank you Jane. I already feel very connected to my new space so I have a great feeling about things! x
Transitions are hard, especially when our heart was planted in the previous iteration. What you're settling into now is gorgeous. I know, in time, you will attach to this one, too. The tent!! Oh, the tent!!
This line above all the other beautiful lines, stood out: "What can’t be healed through listening first?" Thank you, Ruth.
Thank you Elizabeth. I think time will very deeply attach me to the new space, and already I want to be there all the time so it's all feeling very positive.
I really do believe listening is the only place to begin. I am convinced of it, as hippie or old fashioned as it may sound to some :) xx
I'm here for hippie and old-fashioned. Maybe we just call that generational wisdom.
Yes, let's!
I can imagine being inside this gentle space with nature all around me and feeling connected to it all.How much easier it would be to access all those deep hidden places within yourself than in some of the cold bare rooms where therapy is often offered. I am sure it will be wonderful xx
Yes, it's much more inviting isn't it! I want people to feel cared for and that they can care too :)
This tent, your writing, makes me want to crawl inside and go to sleep. x
Aww what a lovely response. Thank you. You can come and do that if you like :) x
Your tent is a beautiful space, I can feel it from here. May you and those bring into the space with you, thrive and heal and create and hope xx
Thank you so much Lynne xx
I love the way you are always evolving, always learning, always open and curious. And most of all I love the originality and quality of your writing - nobody could ever mistake it for an AI production
This has made me smile! Thank you Miranda. No I'm definitely a long way from AI! Such a heartening and encouraging reply to my piece, thank you. X
"It is not a place to close off-from the world, but to find a way to re-enter it..." I loved that line, Ruth. It struck me deep as I too stand in a transitional space in my own life. Your tent looks glorious and if I lived closer I'd love to come and sit in circle with you. Wishing you all the best for this new season and being fully you.
Thank you so much Kelly. I am very sure I would have enjoyed that :) But in spirit, eh! I hope you find a way to be in the transitional space too, rather than collapse the tension of it before time... xx
I have indeed found a way. I am embarking upon a little pilgrimage of the peninsula where I live. A little bit each month along the shoreline as I step into the next season of becoming.
That sounds like just the thing :)
So much said, so much unsaid. We dwell always in liminal spaces, your tent the embodiment of that 🤍
Thank you Janey. Yes, I like that 🤍