A Psychotherapist Marking Time, Podcast: Recent Episodes
markingtime10
A Psychotherapists ongoing reflections, including responses to Covid-19 by Christopher Murray, Belfast, NI.
Noticing how people's energy goes up and down, dramatically on occasions. How we are being told about the new normal and can we influence it?
Noticing how the earth is breathing since humans left it alone due to lockdown, appreciating and hoping we can continue to treat it well
Noticing and responding to the challenges of using video day in and day out keeping connected with clients, friends, colleagues, groups.
Hearing, feeling and experiencing the level of anxiety around and for that to be normal and OK
*Published in the Summer 2020 Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
Wanting to find other ways to be in the world that is not competitive, attached to competitiveness and ownership. Wondering if it might if we could reclaim and add ancient ways of being in the world that include ancient feminine qualities.
Noticing how we have time on our hands, how we might use that time: reaching out and connecting to others; offering loving kindness to the world.
*Published in the Summer 2020 Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
I feel challenged in these strange times of Covid-19, to think about other ways of delivering psychotherapy services, leading to some radical thought.
The world is more than material, although the focus is often on material possessions. Use mindfulness practices to help manage the invisible threat of Covid-19, then taken it s step further into creative expression.
The realisation that in order to cope with Covid-19 I needed to reach out to colleagues and others for connection, conversation and support for me and my psychotherapy practice.
Some thoughts and feelings about offering therapy on video and working from home, self-isolating and the difficulties some had finding private spaces.
*Published in the Summer Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
In mid-march I was feeling the need to capture my initial responses to closing my psychotherapy office, working online from home and my personal reactions to Covid-19
*Published in the Summer Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
This short introduction to Marking Time gives some background to the genesis of the series, my responses to my work as a psychotherapist, with reference to the challenges of Covid-19