Mumsnet Widget
-
Recent Posts
- The Draining Narcissism of Yoga, Best Cheesecake Ever, Fuck Unsolicited Advice/Information
- Dreams of Trump, Hot Hot Hot, Salsa Verde, Prawns and Peas, Easy Pomegranate Chicken with Kasha
- Sorting People on the Basis of Their Genitalia, Legal Definitions of Madness, Painting the Kitchen, Coconut Milk Panna Cotta and Almond Fruit Tart
- Instant Curry, Shepherd’s Pie, Apricot muffins and No Rambling – just the food
- Birthdays, Pea Soup, Thai Crabcakes, Chocolate Fudge Cake and the Unthought Known
Archives
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- January 2017
- October 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- September 2013
- August 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: psychotherapy
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cello, chicken, Donald Trump, double bass, Dreamliner, English tourists, heatwave in Italy, Lucca, mint, Mosquito bites, parsley, peas, pomegranate molasses, prawns, psychotherapy
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
Birthdays, Pea Soup, Thai Crabcakes, Chocolate Fudge Cake and the Unthought Known
I’ve had two patients this week who’ve been bowled over by realising something they already knew. It’s funny in therapy and analysis that you rarely have huge epiphanies that involve things you’ve never thought about before. All those recovered memory … Continue reading
Slow-cooked beef, terror attacks, parsley salad, double bass strings and Dreams of Donald
Slow-cooked beef, terror attacks, parsley salad, double bass strings and Dreams of Donald Terror attacks, just really briefly. Sorry everyone. I caused them. Apparently. I have been clearly told that – A) I am stupid and it is my failure … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged beef ribs, dates, Donald Trump, double bass, dreams, food porn, ISIS, labradors, love, Nazis, parsley, pomegranate molasses, pomegranate seeds, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, soffrito, street gangs, terror attacks
Leave a comment
Everything cake, Hysterectomy, Being a Therapist doesn’t mean I’m happy, Sorrentino
I was having dinner with a friend at Satura in Lucca (boring restaurant with lots of deep fried stuff) and telling her how weird it is to be having a hysterectomy (soon) and how sad. Only a couple of years … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bad food, everything cake, hysterectomy, La Grande Bellezza, marriage, menopause, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Rome, solitude, Sorrentino, The Young Pope, Youth
Leave a comment
David Bowie, Cats, Everything Salad and a Patient who Hides
Slightly lurid picture of Everything Salad there, but the only one I’ve got. Wait. Has it got some weird filter on it? Possibly. So, I was watching a picture of David Bowie flash up on the TV yesterday, all bony … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Food to make you happy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
Tagged apples, bacon, cats, David Bowie, depression, dogs, eggs, feta, halloumi, prawns, psychotherapy, salad, salmon, silence in therapy, spinach, spring onions, Stephen Grosz
Leave a comment
Dealing with trauma from online viewing, Chekhov’s Black Monk and Azerbaijano-Armenian (I know, I know) lamb meatballs.
Dealing with trauma from online viewing, Chekhov’s Black Monk and Azerbaijano-Armenian (I know, I know) lamb meatballs. The Black Monk! I went to the Pushkin House to watch a play, filmed in Moscow, based on the Chekhov short story. There … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Food to make you happy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
Tagged advice, armenia, Azerbaijan, broth, chekhov, chicken broth, coriander, food, lamb, meatballs, Moscow, parsley, psychotherapy, pushkin, stew, the black monk, trauma, trauma counselling
Leave a comment
