Wayne Scott

Wayne Scott (@wainscoting.bsky.social) and Matthew Nienow discuss how shame becomes a portal, how narrative-building and healing are connected, and reimagine masculinity in an era where toxic manhood is glaringly, aggressively dominant across Western cultures.
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"Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott by Amy Bond" written in white at the bottom of Scott's author photo. To the left of these words is the book cover for The Maps They Gave Us beneath the full white Rumpus logo.

"The most important thing to remember is that there is never just one story."

Amy Bond interviews @wainscoting.bsky.social about The Maps They Gave Us (@blacklawrence.bsky.social).

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@wainscoting.bsky.social shares his memoir: The Maps They Gave Us. We scrutinize society's expected marriage script vs. how self-acceptance + working with spouse to craft a new marriage story leads to a family based on love. buff.ly/pZpaaRO
#booktalk #memoir #bisexual #nonmonogamy #loveislove

Thanks, Mary! You were one of the speakers and told a delightful story as I recall. I have gotten so much literary mileage out of that wedding! Hope you're doing well! We are feeling deeply for all our friends in DC area (which is where I think you still are, right?).

There’s a new box in the house. You’d never know this is *my* special day.

Contact - Wayne Scott Get in Contact Sign up for my Newsletter My monthly newsletter includes writings, art, quotes, and videos related to healing, creativity, and staying inspired, as well as upcoming continuing education...

Since 2019 I've been writing a micro-blog (5 crisp paragraphs) focusing on endurance strategies, applying wisdom from fields as diverse as neuroscience, psychotherapy, and literature. The next one, "The First Page of the End of Despair," comes out next week. To sign up: waynescottlcsw.com/contact/

The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined - Black Lawrence Press Welcome to Will and Grace with kids, cats, and a mortgage. In a memoir that celebrates the creative possibilities of intimate relationships, writer and psychotherapist Wayne Scott’s The Maps They Gave...

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The Silent Treatment A teenage boy being bullied at school experiences a life-saving version of manhood with a patient, quiet therapist.

"Once upon a time, there was a therapist, a teenage boy, and a very long hour."

My piece about refusing to talk to the wonderful therapist I was mandated to see as a 14 year old boy.

The power of silence and humility.

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Contact - Wayne Scott Get in Contact Sign up for my Newsletter My monthly newsletter includes writings, art, quotes, and videos related to healing, creativity, and staying inspired, as well as upcoming continuing education...

Because I teach new therapists, I often respond to the question “How does therapy work?” I've gotten the answer down to something pithy. It's in my micro blog--5 crisp paragraphs, not counting 'hello'--coming out next week. You can sign up for it, if you're curious. waynescottlcsw.com/contact/

Miriam Cesar Chavez

Reading and loving Anne Michael’s “Held”

I keep wanting Bluesky to be like the old Lit Twitter with people sharing quotes and poems they loved and talking back and forth about the important books they were reading together.

Wait. What? We’re allowed to skip back and forth between platforms?

Very intriguing lines!

My debut memoir, “The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined,” about a couples adventures in marital therapy, hits the shelves in time for Valentine’s Day 2025, if you’re tired of giving roses.

(There. My first Bluesky post. And the book cover even gets hidden as “Adult Content”!)