dialoguing is a newsletter from an off-duty psychotherapist keeping the conversation going on how to make sense of this life thing we’re all doing. if you ever wondered what your therapist does off the clock—which, who among us hasn’t?—this is like that. think of it as the adult equivalent of seeing your elementary school teacher at the grocery store picking out lemons. 🍋 I do a smattering of long-form psychoeducation pieces and narrative essays. Today, a new segment…
Welcome to Say more—
A new offering here on dialoguing. Periodic roundups of what I’m digesting–reading, watching, listening to, eating, and maybe a product or two that is giving me life. Like most things I do, I consume with a therapist lens and an all too human eye.
I mentioned having this idea percolating awhile ago, but was reluctant to actually do it for fear that maybe I wasn’t really getting it. What the message is supposed to be of whatever I’m consuming. As is often the case, I got a little nod from the universe urging me to scamper forward. While listening to an interview with Greta Gerwig on WTF with Marc Maron. She articulated something I’ve heard before which is basically that art often doesn’t have one fixed meaning. It’s meant to land on someone in their own specific way.
This makes all too much sense to me. In therapy, clients will often recount something to me and then wait. Waiting for me to have a set reaction. But often, they haven’t said what it meant to them, how they experienced it. Which leaves me responding, “Say more…”
A little bit of housekeeping…
My husband and I teased we were thinking of doing an extra episode of our podcast, a therapist and a lawyer walk into a bar, for the recent drop of Love is Blind episodes, but with him traveling this week we didn’t get it in. Have no fear, we will be going allllll in for the remaining episodes next week.
If this isn’t your vibe and you’re here for the essays, no worries these roundups will be done sparingly. I’m really excited about Monday’s essay. I explore how I feel about where I live. I pull exactly zero punches on myself and Colorado. It generated a lot of deep reflection in myself and I suspect (read: hope) this will stimulate dialogue around how we feel about where we find ourselves living.
If on the other hand, you love a roundup, I’ve done a few before: one of for all of 2023, and one from when I got too excited after I first started my Substack and thought I could routinely post 2 newsletters a week, lolz.
TV
Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees
(on Netflix)
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