Dr Astrid Coxon

Boundaries and "dual relationships" in counselling Boundaries are regularly discussed in counselling and psychotherapy (and in mental health and wellbeing more generally). In essence, boundaries are the limits or rules around the therapeutic relations...

I've reanimated the blog on my website - I didn't even realise it had disappeared, and glad to see that previous posts have been reinstated. I'm going to try to blog a few things over the coming months, but for now, here's one of my most popular posts

www.astridcoxon.com/post/boundar...

Also the fact that Ben, who glanced at the TV from across the room (& was at an angle from the screen) recognised Peter Weller 40 years on from a film in which most of his face is obscured is *wild* to me. We are on opposite ends of the facial recognition spectrum.

If you know what I'm talking about, we can be friends

Watching Star Trek: Into Darkness before it leaves UK Netflix

Peter Weller is in it

He just said "but I made a mistake"

Ben and I both basically bellowed "now it's time to erase that mistake" at the TV

So far this year in knitting I have:
- cast on 9 new projects
- completed 5 projects
- frogged 6 projects
and there's still three blankets in limbo (one of them was started in 2013)

My special skill is helping people to backtrack from this and get back on the thought train. Can't do it for myself though ✨

A hand knitted cardigan in progress - the body is about 60% done and the sleeves are yet to be started. The cardigan is a technicolour mess of cheap DK acrylic yarns in alternating 1x1 colourwork, worked top down with raglan sleeves. Pattern is seaglass cardigan by Wool+Pine.

What's on your needles? I'm currently trying to finally use a while bunch of cheap acrylic yarns I've had since my teens (I can't seem to just... Get rid of them). Pattern is Seaglass cardigan by Wool+Pine

It's not that someone approved this. It's that several people thought this was a great idea, and everyone else just let it happen.

Council defends new cycle rack in disabled parking bay East Suffolk Council defends the new bike rack installed in a disabled bay in Hungate car park, Beccles, after it received backlash for rack's…

Ah, I see East Suffolk Council have decided to boldly declare how much they despise disabled people
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2492439...

That's... Very specific 😅

Knitting and planning what you want to knit next are two separate hobbies

We are at a critical moment in our profession's history. Our survival depends on resisting the right. Our clients depend on it. We must not mirror national and international politics. If your professional body has elections coming up, there is no room for apathy. Vote.

My partner has had a couple of referrals at our local hospital. The respiratory referral has an approx 26 week wait for an appointment. The urology referral is for *66 weeks*.

I don't like to yuck anyone's yum but I watched SAFE and it was... Not good.

A yellow knitted triangle - the start of a handknit shawl (pattern is Ofélia by Maria Martins)

I've done a couple of little knits since the jumper, but have just cast on a new Big Shawl to use up some pesky lace weight leftovers that have been in my stash for over a decade. I never really use lace weight and I'm keen for them to end up in something impressive.

So many times the hero will fall from a great height and I think "well that's a broken back" but no, they're fine

YES I often think this!!

Oh, another one! People removing objects from wounds. That big shard of glass in your chest, protagonist? Leave it be until you can get medical assistance, or bleed out.

Oh absolutely!! My mum (a former midwife) shares this pet peeve with you!!

Re bad technique - yes I feel the same seeing people "knitting" on TV, or very obviously miming on a musical instrument 😅

What are your TV/cinema pet peeves? One of mine is the number of head injuries that people seem to just... Walk away from? They don't even puke. Significant knock to the head, and it either cleanly knocks them out like a light, or they basically walk it off.

Oh come on
[astral energy crepitates]
you are, of course, joking

Also, this film is bunk. Getting real Valerian (city of a thousand planets) vibes - it looks nice, but there's not a single character whose wellbeing I'm invested in.
Space Nazis and primary colour humanoids with appendages glued on.

Nothing groundbreaking, but if I need to know this stuff, I should be able to know it without captions, right?

Closed captions shouldn't give more info than you can get from the audio. I'm watching Rebel Moon (part one) and some of the non-dialogue captions (e.g. [Bloodaxe fleet approaches]) provides additional info that hasn't yet been mentioned in dialogue. It's basically a bunch of mini spoilers.

I don't know who needs to know this, but June plays wrong notes in episode 6 of the Brothers Sun. Those Es aren't supposed to be flat. I had to run to the piano and check.

Maybe I'm being ungenerous, because it was a very short introductory video, but it felt weird to couch it in apologetic language and then not discuss it

I get that some autistic people don't identify as disabled or have very strong feelings about this, but without a nuanced discussion around this, it felt really weird in context of the video

Watching a recording from Counselling Tutor about autism-informed practice, and a bit bemused that Lees-Oakes keeps almost apologising for using the word "disability" (ie. "I'm using the wording in the legislation", "there's that word again, disability") - What's wrong with the word "disability"??

Seriously, how does Schur do it. Weeping.

An address block for a branch of Screwfix, which lists their address as "Martlesham Health"

Amused to notice that the Martlesham Heath branch of Screwfix has a typo on their receipt & invoice headers