Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 18/01/2026One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again. —C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia 0166
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Guilt is the sister of anxiety, remorse a cousin of regret. — Salman Akhtar, 2014. 020
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Experience is but a moment. Making sense of that moment is a life. — Richard Flanagan, Question 7 010
Reposted by Tuula RasenMilena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025"Where there is shadow, there must be light.” Haruki Murakami 07310
Reposted by Tuula RasenBiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Identity is important not because we are always the same - if we were, we would scarcely think about our identities…It is precisely because we can be so different in different contexts that we need to ask ourselves “who am I?” - Paul Wachtel 083
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Jung said in a letter once that life is a short pause between two great mysteries. Beware of those who offer answers. They may be sincere, but their answers are not necessarily yours.~James Hollis, 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 0113
Reposted by Tuula RasenTuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"The courage to understand and the courage not to understand — these are not intellectual qualities, but a matter of character, an expression of moral courage, an issue of inner sincerity— manifested in spite of and often in opposition to the ego." — Theodor Reik, 1933 071
Reposted by Tuula RasenAngela Dunning @angeladunning.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature." ~ Adyashanti Art: 'Subversion' by Irish artist Miriam Sweeney. 072
Reposted by Tuula RasenMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19/09/2025“Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment.” Trauma, growth, and how to be twice as alive — beloved Moomins creator Tove Jansson on the worm and the art of self-renewal www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/02/t... 0123
Reposted by Tuula Rasensnow @ssnowsball.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G, Prélude 1028454
Reposted by Tuula RasenSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. ― Carl Sagan 746474
Reposted by Tuula RasenMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 16/08/2025"The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self..." www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/21/l... 0296
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 14/08/2025To journey inward is to encounter both the light and the shadow. True self-discovery does not mean rejecting darkness but integrating it into the wholeness of one’s being.~CG Jung, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 9𝘪 0177
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/08/2025'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #womensart 01884274
Reposted by Tuula RasenBiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Contemporary psychoanalysis can be summed up in a single sentence: We treat ourselves as we were treated, and the only way to really learn to treat ourselves differently is to be treated differently. There’s nothing magical or unscientific about this. - Michael Karson 0317
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 27/07/2025[T]he unconscious, the healing process of the unconscious, never goes in a straight way. It always makes the most amazing detours.~Marie-Louise von Franz, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘵: 𝘈 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 192
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Learn a range of theories; digest them well enough to hold them and use them lightly. 051
Reposted by Tuula RasenProf Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better 299244385124
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 17/06/2025As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself...The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.~Bessel van der Kolk, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 0184
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025"If everything was amazing all of the time, I think we’d all be speechless, and if you make that your starting point for creativity, you’re going nowhere." — Neneh Cherry 010
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"The courage to understand and the courage not to understand — these are not intellectual qualities, but a matter of character, an expression of moral courage, an issue of inner sincerity— manifested in spite of and often in opposition to the ego." — Theodor Reik, 1933 071
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Bonnie MacLean, US artist known for her 1960s and 70s classic posters using an iconic psychedelic art style to promote rock band gigs #WomensArt 035564
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"My proposition is that it is impossible to overreact. That when we call our reactions overreactions what we mean is just that they are stronger than we would like them to be." — Adam Phillips 020
Reposted by Tuula RasenNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 30/05/2025🧵 Breathtaking! Here's the oldest film of a solar eclipse, restored and released online. On 28 May 1900, magician, astronomer and filmmaker Nevil Maskelyne used a special adapter to film the astronomical event in North Carolina. Source: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o... 🔭 🧪 #Science 5483108
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025"I feel that most people have reached an age where they have so much knowledge that they can't penetrate through to the wisdom [...] It's a new kind of forest which you can't see for the trees. You can't see the wisdom for the knowledge." — Wilfred Bion, 1978 100
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/05/2025𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴. I see it as the tip of an iceberg. . .and then there’s this vast world down below. And I think we are meant to live with mystery. It opens up the dimensions that keep us human and compassionate.~Marion Woodman 1121
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/05/2025´Whirlpool´ embroidery detail by Annemieke Mein, Dutch-born Australian textile artist who specialises in depicting wildlife #womensart 01176174
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Grief work is soul work. It requires courage to face the world as it is and not turn away, to not burrow into a hole of comfort and anesthetization. ~Francis Weller, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 0274
Reposted by Tuula RasenLibby Nugent @libbynugent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025A space to explore the emotional toll of NHS Work and the tension between care and sacrifice. Sat, 2 Aug 2025 10:30 - 12:30 BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1372961196...eventbrite.co.ukNavigating the Death Mother: Ambivalence and Attachment in the NHSA space to explore the emotional toll of NHS Work and the tension between care and sacrifice. 122
Reposted by Tuula RasenBiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025When old modes do not suffice and a new mode must be undertaken, there is always danger involved. No one does it willingly. One avoids it as long as possible. - Allen Wheelis 081
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/05/2025'Bluebell Solitude' by printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt 567778
Reposted by Tuula RasenDr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 16/05/2025To a room full of women doctors @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social conference, what better message than to be wary of those who insist we always #bekind. Kindness is precious; so is truth and timely dissent to benefit our patients. Beware ‘kindwashing’ in medicine. From the inimitable @doctoroxford.com 410122
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16/05/2025You seek the path. I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way. ~CG Jung 0103
Reposted by Tuula RasenBiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The discovery of what one feels is also the discovery of who one is, and who one was. Feelings contain our perceptions, our memories, and our losses. - Paul Russell 071
Reposted by Tuula RasenPhilippa Perry @pperry.bsky.social · 13/05/2025open.substack.comASK PHILIPPA: The Epidemic of Parental EstrangementWhen your adult children cut you off 274
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/05/2025"..You have the right to be angry sometimes" - Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson who first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous and fiercely independent and partly based on the author herself. #WomensArt #Monday 0697127
Reposted by Tuula RasenBéa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below. ~CG Jung, 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 1384
Reposted by Tuula RasenHerbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken. - George Eliot 13510
Reposted by Tuula RasenJoe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Today’s reading exercise. 35575351108
Reposted by Tuula RasenPsychoanalysis and Politics @psapol-org.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Happy birthday, Sıgmund Freud! Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born May 6th 1856 in Freiberg in the Austrian empire. Here with his chows. 052
Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025"To try to observe and interpret something unconscious in oneself is rather like trying to see the back of one’s own head.” — Margaret Little 011
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Tattooed porcelain figurines by Scotland-based artist Jessica Harrison #womensart 047969
Reposted by Tuula Rasenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary UK artist and printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt 01118185
Reposted by Tuula RasenAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it 173210974958
Reposted by Tuula RasenBiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Understanding one’s impact 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 is utterly central to understanding 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. - Paul Wachtel 0286