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@eksterdochter.bsky.social

therapist-in-training, oscillating between photography, writing, art, nature, books and music.

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#midsummer #solstice #rewilding #ecoart

22.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Midsummer and a mandala with sweet chestnut catkins, featuring a dead rat.

22.06.2025 15:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Rewilding the art therapist Dear fellow art therapists, For my bachelor thesis, I’m creating an art journal to support art therapists in staying in the process — with nature-based rituals, creative reflections, and sensory invit...

🌿 Calling all art therapists!
Do you feel the pull to reconnect with nature, with your creative practice, with yourself?
🕊️ Your voice may help shape an art journal rooted in ecopsychology.
👉 forms.gle/FjJDXVd6BS4u...

#arttherapy #rewilding #beeldendetherapie #creatievetherapie #vaktherapie

18.06.2025 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Science supports reduced pain experience when exposed to nature 🧪 - even ‘virtual nature’

15.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
I tried to kill myself two weeks ago. I stopped and drove myself to a crisis center. It was a latch ditch effort to save my life. I was so anxious and afraid of judgement. But I was met with compassion and understanding. (We see Meg sitting next to a person with cool ass tattoos and blue hair) “do you like anime?” They say. I continue: we talked about reasons I wanted to live and made a “safety plan” for next time I felt suicidal. I went home shaken but no longer wanting to die. I was told my family what happened. I was terrified to actually be honest but they have all been so kind. Depression is a deadly disorder you can’t outsmart and you can’t fight alone. I am here today because I asked for help. You are loved and don’t have to suffer in silence.

I tried to kill myself two weeks ago. I stopped and drove myself to a crisis center. It was a latch ditch effort to save my life. I was so anxious and afraid of judgement. But I was met with compassion and understanding. (We see Meg sitting next to a person with cool ass tattoos and blue hair) “do you like anime?” They say. I continue: we talked about reasons I wanted to live and made a “safety plan” for next time I felt suicidal. I went home shaken but no longer wanting to die. I was told my family what happened. I was terrified to actually be honest but they have all been so kind. Depression is a deadly disorder you can’t outsmart and you can’t fight alone. I am here today because I asked for help. You are loved and don’t have to suffer in silence.

‼️🚨CONTENT WARNING: MENTAL ILLNESS/SUICIDE🚨‼️

It’s been 465 days since that day. This incident was the catalyst for me to get diagnosed bipolar/ADHD and properly medicated. I’m so thankful I failed. And I hope this comic helps ❤️

07.02.2025 23:16 — 👍 263    🔁 27    💬 7    📌 0
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Little Imbolc walk.

02.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A skill is something you know how to do. Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. There's luck in art. And there's the gift. You can't earn that. But you can learn skill, you can earn it. You can learn to deserve your gift. I'm not going to discuss writing as self-expression, as therapy, or as a spiritual adventure. It can be these things, but first of all - and in the end, too - it is an art, a craft, a making. And that is the joy of it. To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it.

A skill is something you know how to do. Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. There's luck in art. And there's the gift. You can't earn that. But you can learn skill, you can earn it. You can learn to deserve your gift. I'm not going to discuss writing as self-expression, as therapy, or as a spiritual adventure. It can be these things, but first of all - and in the end, too - it is an art, a craft, a making. And that is the joy of it. To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it.

I'm reading Ursula Le Guin's Steering the Craft and it's full of gems, even for nonfiction #AcademicSky writing.

"A skill is something you know how to do. Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art."

10.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 80    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 0

Whoa, I love it!

13.01.2025 09:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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