Comments on: Allow me to introduce you… http://www.enewman.co.uk/psychology/allow-me-to-introduce-you Writing, anxiety-wrangling, tea. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Graham Storrs http://www.enewman.co.uk/psychology/allow-me-to-introduce-you/comment-page-1#comment-1166 Graham Storrs Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:27:13 +0000 http://www.enewman.co.uk/?p=574#comment-1166 Emma, you're a psychologist, aren't you? How much have you read about the "talking therapies"? This kind of insight - and even the way your Mastermind group is working - are typical of the "eclectic" therapy schools. Maybe you should dig into that literature if you don't know it already? Emma, you’re a psychologist, aren’t you? How much have you read about the “talking therapies”? This kind of insight – and even the way your Mastermind group is working – are typical of the “eclectic” therapy schools. Maybe you should dig into that literature if you don’t know it already?

]]> By: Marisa Birns http://www.enewman.co.uk/psychology/allow-me-to-introduce-you/comment-page-1#comment-1165 Marisa Birns Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:23:22 +0000 http://www.enewman.co.uk/?p=574#comment-1165 Yes, clinging to outmoded definitions of oneself seem to exist because they're so familiar, and we're comfortable with those definitions. Sort of like not throwing out an old bathrobe that has seen better days but has been washed to threadbare coziness. The really scary thing is when we realize we've outgrown said night wear and we must find something else to put on. I do wish I had a Mr. anything that murmurs in my head. Or maybe I do and I'm not really listening yet. For me, stories don't churn and fight each other to get to the front of the line. They come one at a time, and dragging their feet, so no need to even form a line to wait their turn. I do know that any anxiety I experience comes from not having the complete discipline I need to sit down and write every day. Yes, clinging to outmoded definitions of oneself seem to exist because they’re so familiar, and we’re comfortable with those definitions. Sort of like not throwing out an old bathrobe that has seen better days but has been washed to threadbare coziness.

The really scary thing is when we realize we’ve outgrown said night wear and we must find something else to put on.

I do wish I had a Mr. anything that murmurs in my head. Or maybe I do and I’m not really listening yet. For me, stories don’t churn and fight each other to get to the front of the line.
They come one at a time, and dragging their feet, so no need to even form a line to wait their turn. I do know that any anxiety I experience comes from not having the complete discipline I need to sit down and write every day.

]]> By: Tony Noland http://www.enewman.co.uk/psychology/allow-me-to-introduce-you/comment-page-1#comment-1164 Tony Noland Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:05:34 +0000 http://www.enewman.co.uk/?p=574#comment-1164 <i>Stories that I had told them, but ones that might not actually be true about myself anymore.</i> I find this to be the most interesting line here. How much time and effort do we spend clinging to definitions of ourselves that don't fit anymore? I'm shy, I'm confident, I'm boring, I'm charming... how much honesty and courage does it take to admit that our familiar self-identities were only true back in school, or in our first job, or before we had kids, etc? You've given me a rather large bone to gnaw at, Emma. Stories that I had told them, but ones that might not actually be true about myself anymore.

I find this to be the most interesting line here. How much time and effort do we spend clinging to definitions of ourselves that don’t fit anymore? I’m shy, I’m confident, I’m boring, I’m charming… how much honesty and courage does it take to admit that our familiar self-identities were only true back in school, or in our first job, or before we had kids, etc?

You’ve given me a rather large bone to gnaw at, Emma.

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