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The Upside of a Very Anxious Time
“Everybody’s anxious,” my friend messaged. “Everybody’s anxious.” It sounds true, I know. But it isn’t true. At least five of my hyper-anxious psychotherapy patients have been miraculously calmed by the whole planet acting out their inner drama on their behalf. … Continue reading
Posted in advice, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, The Mind Field
Tagged andratuttobene, anxiety, chess, coronavirus, depression, italia, Italy, ptsd, quarantine, reaching out, Russia, stress, The Mind Field, trauma
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The Best Soup of All Time Ever – A Georgio-Azero-Armenian Feast
This has become known as The Soup. I was in the car with my boyfriend a few months ago talking about what we were going to eat (he is Italian and takes food very seriously indeed, often just closing … Continue reading
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Tagged armenia, Azerbaijan, bones, broth, cavolo nero, chickpeas, chilli, cooking, dried limes, food, Georgia, happiness, Italy, Le Creuset, minestrone, pomegranate molasses, saffron, soup, sour dough bread, stock, walnuts, winter food, winter soup, zuppa di farro
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Claudia’s Chicken Salad, Sailing (who knew?), The Moretti Advert, Divorce, Kenya 25 Years Later and The Brothers Karamazov
Photos: Me IN A HAMMOCK, ON A BOAT happy as a clam in Cervia, Bagno Samuele where Lev works, Me and Cath on the beach in Mombasa (I know we look like girls out of college but this one … Continue reading
Posted in Food to make you happy, psychotherapy
Tagged Cervia, Chicken Salad, Finding Peace, Growing Older, hammock, Kenya, Mombasa, Moretti Beer, Pink Sky, Sailing, The Brothers Karamazov, Watermelon, Wedding
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Four Recipes, a Wedding and a Funeral
Four Recipes, a Wedding and a Funeral (Wedding photo left to right – James, Hope, Lily, Me, Samira, Charlotte, Steve, Grace – kneeling in front Lev, Murdo) (Dogs: Blue and the last ever photo of Marmite, taken four days before … Continue reading
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Potato Skins, Mary Magdalene, Lucca Homeless Lunches, the Book I’m Writing (and having been thinking about for nearly ten years) plus Other Stuff
Potato Skins, Mary Magdalene, Lucca Homeless Lunches, the Book I’m Writing and Other Stuff It’s been ages. If I’m writing I need to be writing a book – it’s about simultaneous interpretation, identity and Stalin. Hmm. That’s not a very … Continue reading
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Perimenopause, HRT, Sexual Harassment, Misogynistic Abuse from Peter Hitchens? Who’d be Female? Also, a Lemon Cake.
Perimenopause, HRT, Sexual Harassment, Misogynistic Abuse from Peter Hitchens? Who’d be Female? Also, a Lemon Cake. Sexual harassment stuff – beyond depressing. And it is complicated by the fact that my generation grew up watching Benny Hill and The Generation … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Food to make you happy, psychotherapy, Uncategorized
Tagged anthea redfern, blood loss, Honey and Co., hormone treatment, hrt, lemon cake, menopause, menorraghea, misogyny, norethisterone, perimenopause, peter hitchens, progesterone, prostap, sexual harassment, sexuality, tibolone
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The Draining Narcissism of Yoga, Best Cheesecake Ever, Fuck Unsolicited Advice/Information
Look, I know I will be losing friends like….I don’t know, lemmings off a cliff or something, but I just really hate the thing of yoga. I’ve done yoga – good stretching. Quite liked it. Almost everyone I know … Continue reading
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Dreams of Trump, Hot Hot Hot, Salsa Verde, Prawns and Peas, Easy Pomegranate Chicken with Kasha
Dreams of Trump, Hot Hot Hot, Salsa Verde, Prawns and Peas, Easy Pomegranate Chicken with Kasha Okay, so it’s hot at La Casa Rosa. Really fucking hot. 41 degrees in a high mountain village, five degrees hotter down in Lucca … Continue reading
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Tagged cello, chicken, Donald Trump, double bass, Dreamliner, English tourists, heatwave in Italy, Lucca, mint, Mosquito bites, parsley, peas, pomegranate molasses, prawns, psychotherapy
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Sorting People on the Basis of Their Genitalia, Legal Definitions of Madness, Painting the Kitchen, Coconut Milk Panna Cotta and Almond Fruit Tart
I drove to Florence to meet an old friend and his daughter. They had come in this kind of hellish way to spend two days sightseeing in the blistering heat with a billion other tourists. Even Florence is … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Food to make you happy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
Tagged almond paste, coconut milk, diminished responsibility, gender, genitalia, madness, mango, Michel Roux Jr, misogyny, panna cotta, pay gap, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, sesame seeds, sexism, tuna, vagina, willy
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Instant Curry, Shepherd’s Pie, Apricot muffins and No Rambling – just the food
I spend most of my time up this Italian mountain making curry. Anything that tastes of SOMEthing. This is my quick curry recipe. Takes ten minutes, always delicious. So, if there are going to be three big onions in … Continue reading
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Tagged chapatis, chicken curry, coconut milk, cottage pie, curry, muffins, raita, shepherd's pie, vanilla essence
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