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Claire Firth

@clairefirth.bsky.social
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Bird enthusiast, mum, fascinated by the mind in all its complexity, always curious. PG Dip Psychotherapy student at Leeds Beckett University. She/her

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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hello, here is a BBC article where my partner Matt is raising awareness about the plight of curlews. On Sunday 19th April we’ll be doing the Yorkshire 3 peaks dressed in full curlew costume! 👇 #curlewconservation #worldcurlewday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Curlew crusader Matt Trevelyan embarks on Three Peaks challenge
Matt Trevelyan is donning his Cathy costume to raise £10,000 for the bird's conservation.
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hello friends on Bluesky! On Sunday 19th April, 2 giant curlews are going to scale the Yorkshire 3 Peaks with company. Please do share far & wide - all funds raised go to @curlewaction.bsky.social & Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust. Here is the link: www.justgiving.com/team/curlew3...
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The Curlew Challenge: Climbing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, dressed as Giant Curlews.
Help Team Curlew raise money to support Curlew Action
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The first day of the European Curlew Fieldworker Workshop in Lancaster was a great start to what promises to be a weekend full of important discussions, skill sharing and human connection. Stay tuned for more highlights coming soon. 📷 Verity White
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Elizabeth Day referring to Stephen Grosz as ‘the poet laureate of human emotions’ in her podcast is spot on! #StephenGrosz #Love’sLabour #HowtoFailpodcast
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hi folks, my conversation with Psychotherapist Tom Welch is now on Substack - open.substack.com/pub/clairefi...
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A chat with Psychotherapist Tom Welch
As a trainee therapist, I am keen to engage with psychotherapists to explore what informs their practice, how their life experiences have shaped them & what it’s like to be actively working in the fie...
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Thoughts on CBT
I am now a few weeks into the PG Dip Psychotherapy course at Leeds Beckett University, & it has been a whirlwind to say the least.
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love” - Arthur Burton (1967) #psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“Phenomenological investigation demonstrates that, once our sedimented outlook is ‘opened up’, numerous perceptual possibilities become available which can be repeatedly turned to for experiential verification” - E. Spinelli #ErnestoSpinelli #existentialpsychotherapy
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“Be thoughtful, of course, but be courageous. If you have any anxiety when you’re practicing, that’s good...Take risks. If you’re never afraid and you’re just offering soothing, comforting things you’re probably not giving the person everything that person really needs.” #KarenMaroda #psychotherapy
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”. -Umberto Eco writingforwellbeing.co.uk #books
Umberto Eco with many shelves of his collection of books
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Included in this episode, the Jungian Analysts discuss how empathy is sometimes overused to avoid conflict in a therapist & client context, & that it can be important to allow a conflict to happen for the possibility of growth to occur from the strife. #KarenMaroda open.spotify.com/episode/0DBn...
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STRIFE: What Lies Beneath Our Conflicts?
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
‘Chaos is full of paradox. Its own character is ambiguous & contradictory; nature can be both deterministic & unpredictable. Randomness & structure can co-exist. Simplicity & complexity are not mutually exclusive concepts; instead, they exist in a state of tension’. #ChrysaPlymaki #existentialism
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Embarking on psychotherapy training....
I'll shortly be undertaking a 2 year part-time Counselling & Psychotherapy course at Leeds Beckett University & I'm presently in the mode of psyching myself up for all of what this will be, wondering ...
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
‘If we believe that the “Oedipus Complex” implies only that little boys want to kill the man they know is their father & marry the woman they know is their mother, then our understanding is based on an extreme simplification of the myth’ Freud And Man’s Soul -Bettelheim #OedipusComplex #TheSphinx
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
‘The aim of therapy is not primarily to achieve specific ‘’insights’’ into oneself or one’s past…but to develop the capacity or function for self-awareness: to identify feelings, thoughts & impulses, to put them into words’ Jeremy Holmes - The Search for the Secure Base #Attachment #Psychotherapy
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings….this freedom cannot be achieved if the childhood roots are cut off’ Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child #depthpsyhology #DrAliceMillerPsychologist
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
‘I distinguish between ego & the self, since the ego is only the subject of my consciousness, while the self is the subject of my total psyche, which also includes the unconscious. In this sense the self would be an ideal entity which embraces the ego’ Jung 1926 #Jung #depthpsychology #psychotherapy
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Carl Jung on creativity www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/09/c...
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Carl Jung on Creativity
The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps bec…
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Really grateful to @k8lister.bsky.social & Emily Van Dyne for shedding light on Sylvia Plath’s complex & creative life, & for challenging presumed narratives about her, thank you! #SylviaPlath #BetwixtTheSheets
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In this episode the Jungian Analysts explore differences with thoughts & feelings, & how being stuck in a complex can distort an individual’s thinking #ThisJungianLife #CarlJung #depthpsychology open.spotify.com/episode/7vpk...
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IDENTITY CRISIS: When Our Story Falls Apart
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I definitely haven’t seen as many Swifts this year….time for some Swift brick action 👇
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Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds?
Campaigners are calling for compulsory ‘swift bricks’ in new homes to provide nesting sites
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Andi Watson @andicomics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Birds
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
‘Only ‘’children & fools’’ tell the truth, since their persona has not developed to the degree expected by society’ Shame & The Origins of Self-Esteem by Mario Jacoby offers detailed insights on how shame fundamentally affects an individual’s sense of self & perspective #psychotherapy #Jung
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
‘We may be familiar with our acceptable qualities, but literature can help us to accept aspects of our personalities that it can be very hard to bear on our own’ Kate Barrows - Ideas in Psychoanalysis: Envy #psychoanalysis #depthpsychology
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
What a wonderful idiom!
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
‘A good therapeutic outcome is a person’s sense of humour improving’ - Peter Fonagy In this episode Peter Fonagy touches on the roots of MBT & how this evolved in working with individuals with BPD #mentalisationbasedtherapy #psychotherapy #BerlinPsychoanalytic open.spotify.com/episode/2vrT...
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Interview with Peter Fonagy
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
‘The crumbling of the false self occurs through awareness of its manifestations, not through the substitution of some underlying “truer” personality’ Mark Epstein - Thoughts Without A Thinker #psychotherapy #depthpsychology
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
📢 We need your help to monitor Nightjar for the Heathland Birds Survey! Find a priority site near you ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... #Ornithology #UKBirding A huge thank you to all volunteers participating in this project! 📷 Nightjar by Mike Toms
Nightjar on the ground camouflaged against the dirt, with green foliage in the background.
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Facing Rejection explores the concept of reclaiming & integrating denied parts of the unconscious mind #CarlGustavJung #CarlJung #depthpsychology open.spotify.com/episode/27ZM...
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FACING REJECTION
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ceremonial swift fly-past with wren fanfare
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Surrey Wildlife Trust highlight the decline of Nightingales visiting the UK & they are now on the UK’s red list 👇 www.facebook.com/share/v/16fs...
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Take a moment. Bluebells are blooming. Spring is quietly lifting the world. Voices of hope and healing...threaded through a woodland floor. This Mental Health Awareness Week, pause in nature with us. #ThoughtfulThursday
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Mind @mind.org.uk · 12/05/2025
Mental Health Awareness Week has begun 💙 If you’re needing a little support, here’s who to call ☎️  Please share far and wide! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
A pink graphic with a list of mental health helplines for Mental Health Awareness Week. It includes:

Mind: 0300 102 1234 (Open 9am–6pm weekdays)
Samaritans: 116 123 (Always open)
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): 0800 58 58 58 (Open 5pm–midnight)
If you're in Wales, CALL: 0800 132 737 (Always open)
If you're under 25, The Mix: Text THEMIX to 85258 (Always open)
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
‘I love that idea of the conscious cramp’ - Joseph R Lee A deeply thought provoking episode from This Jungian Life, with the analysts exploring attitudes & the notion of freeing up fixed energy to enable integration of the unconscious. #CarlGustavJung #CarlJung open.spotify.com/episode/0UgO...
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Changing the Foundation of Personality: the Secret Power of Attitudes
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explore.org @explore.org · 10/05/2025
Meet the Spoonbills. #birds
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Today is World Migratory Bird Day! Check out our World Migratory Bird Day blog which goes over some interesting information about bird migration, including some interesting Curlew facts! www.curlewaction.org/world-migratory-bird-day
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Curlew Action – Action Now for Curlews Tomorrow
Curlews around the world are declining. We've lost 50% of the Eurasian Curlew population in the UK in the last 25 years. Curlew Action is working to reverse the decline.
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung is an accessible venture into his theories & concepts, navigating the internal world & the process of individuation within mass society, uncovering the complexities of the human psyche #CarlGustavJung #CarlJung #depthpsychology
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This episode is a fascinating insight into Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) with Dr Richard Schwartz open.spotify.com/episode/7ytu...
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Internal Family Systems Therapy with Dr. Richard Schwartz
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Aren’t Dippers just awesome?!
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Claire Firth @clairefirth.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This episode with @pfonagy.bsky.social & Dr Anthony Bateman is a wonderful introduction into the effectiveness of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) open.spotify.com/episode/67hU...
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Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT), with Dr. Anthony W. Bateman, MA, FRCPSYCH and Dr. Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., FBA
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The Good News Network: Positive Stories 24/7 [Unofficial] @goodnewsnetwork.org.web.brid.gy · 06/05/2025
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Giant Mystical Eagle Thought to Be ‘Extinct in Mexico’ Reappears, Marking Landmark Moment for Conservationists
A harpy eagle, South America’s largest bird of prey, has been sighted in a rainforest in southern Mexico, where it was believed to be locally extinct. Named for the crone-bird hybrid of Greek mythology, the appearance of this large and majestic raptor is worthy of the association. Adult females are much larger than their male […] The post Giant Mystical Eagle Thought to Be ‘Extinct in Mexico’ Reappears, Marking Landmark Moment for Conservationists appeared first on Good News Network.
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