Martha Crawford

Writer, former psychotherapist, living with cancer,

Group and workshop facilitator (on dreams, mortality, study of contemplative mysticism, support for immunocompromised/high risk folks, and more)

Essays in Slate, Vox, & New York Magazine

Climate Psychology Alliance NA - Media committee

2022-12-17

I dream I am walking in NYC looking for a waiting job , relying on my resume from restaurant work in my twenties. I wonder if I can get insurance.

I head uptown on Park Ave toward Grand Central, and the street turns into a diorama of NYC, everything heightened and quaint and beautiful.

#dreams

2022-12-17

@JL_Lycette

“Strongman” worship, fawning.

2022-12-17

Some of my go to podcasts:

Weird Studies
Turning to the Mystics
The Cosmic We
Wisdom of the Masters
Spooked
Snap Judgment
Living Myth
The Way Out is In
Emergence Magazine
All My Relations

And all the Thomas Merton recordings I can get from Catholic Stream even though I am not Catholic.

2022-12-17

Next book:

“Art forms of the fantastic are the only way we as non-believers allow ourselves, unconsciously, to believe”

- Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets

The cover of a paperback edition of The Secret Life of Puppets decorated with images of ventriloquist dummies
2022-12-16

Okay everyone:

I'm going to try to migrate my account to spore.social so I can move back and forth between Project Mushroom and the Federation more easily.

I've really appreciated @stux and wish everyone the best!

FINGERS CROSS I DO THIS RIGHT?

Will I lose my follows but keep my followers? I should copy my follow list right?

2022-12-16

Hello to the new wave of Twitter-folk.

The servers slow down and balk when there is a big influx.

I promise that when things settle back down I'll go through the list of new followers to try to reconnect to those I knew back in Twitter-ville.

You are welcome to reply to this post if we knew or followed each other somehow over there, especially if your profile isn't up yet, or you've changed your handle or something and I'll follow too.

2022-12-16

I dreamed I was at a school where there was a relentless number of drill teams and “parade” arts and activities. Marching bands. Baton and rifle twirlers. Dance squads.

Everyone lining up in rank and file up and down the hallways and me weaving in and out doing all I could to negotiate the small bits of remaining free space in between.

#dreams

2022-12-15

We do not know the effect our small gestures, our behavioral models may have cumulatively or eventually.

I choose to stand in the power of that.

whatashrinkthinks.substack.com

2022-12-15

Evening Discussion on the disruption and reorganization of virtual community

Recording of tonight's discussion available:

whatashrinkthinks.com/evening-

2022-12-15

Helen Hayes, the first lady of American theater said never to take the nervous pee - but I disobey.

2022-12-15

Always get weird performance nerves before hosting these Evening Discussions!

What if no one else talks?

What if everything I have to say is finished in 10 minutes?

2022-12-15

Covid: BQ, XBB omicron subvariants pose serious threat to boosters - knock out Evusheld

cnbc.com/2022/12/14/covid-news

2022-12-14

Very excited to be invited and looking forward in the new year to participating in Aspen Global Change Institute’s workshop : “The Adaptive Mind: Identifying the Psychosocial Skills & Capacities Needed to Navigate an Increasingly Difficult World”

So eager to listen and learn from others in this space and offer what I can.

2022-12-14

A realistic orientation to climate breakdown is challenging for many people to formulate in part because of the existential anxieties and death denial that are evoked. This hour and a half discussion focused workshop, is designed for anyone who wants to expand their ability to withstand existential discomfort, and develop healthier, more related responses to encounters with mortality among their family, friends, and in the wider community and culture.

climatepsychology.us/cpa-works

2022-12-14

Really enjoy using the notification “bell” button for some of my favorite folks on here so I don’t miss their posts.

2022-12-14

@BlueCocainex3 @steveumstead

Right? What "non-Nazi" needs Nazis to like them! 😂

2022-12-14

I have a folly project that I have been engaged in for the past 5 years.

I've been reading through Jung's seminars and writing up two essays every month of my associations responses, disagreements, and close readings dream by dream, beat by beat.

It sharpens my sword, and if you are interested in reading such wonky stuff you can find out more here:

whatashrinkthinks.com/seminar

2022-12-13

All these complex theories that people who actively court racists, bigots and Nazis aren't really racists, bigots and Nazis they are just trying to get the racists, bigots and Nazis to like them in service of some other more selfish, mercenary goal are totally bizarre to me.

It is simple: If you want racists, bigots and Nazis to like you, and your goals depend on their approval, you are a racist, a bigot and a Nazi.

And do we really have to play this game from the beginning every time?

2022-12-13

Sunday night:

I dream I am escorting a very old frail woman, with dyed black hair and wearing a formal, floor length bright pink dress across a shiny marble floor covered with grease or oil.

It is hazardous and harrowing but she is still on her feet when I wake up

#dreams

2022-12-13

Sunday night:

I dream Chris Rock contacts me to help him figure out how to talk to his young daughter about misogyny. I ask him if he has talked to his older son about racism, and suggest the conversation should be as frank and recurring and as that.

#dreams

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