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Tuula Rasen

@tuularasen.bsky.social
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Private practice in SE London. #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again. —C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
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Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Guilt is the sister of anxiety, remorse a cousin of regret. — Salman Akhtar, 2014.
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Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Experience is but a moment. Making sense of that moment is a life. — Richard Flanagan, Question 7
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Milena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"Where there is shadow, there must be light.” Haruki Murakami
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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Identity 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
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Jung 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
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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
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Angela 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.
"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 of a black horse emerging out of the fog: 'Subversion' by Irish artist Miriam Sweeney.
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Maria 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...
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snow @ssnowsball.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G, Prélude
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. ― Carl Sagan
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Maria 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...
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
To 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
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #womensart
Painting featuring a cityscape crowded  with bluish houses illuminated by street lamps
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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Contemporary 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
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Béa 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
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Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Learn a range of theories; digest them well enough to hold them and use them lightly.
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I 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
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As 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
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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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
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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
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Bonnie MacLean, US artist known for her 1960s and 70s classic posters using an iconic psychedelic art style to promote rock band gigs #WomensArt
Poster with psychedelic style design with sweeping lines and distorted text featuring a face in busy blue green and orange complex image
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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
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Nereide @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
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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
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
𝘐 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
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womensartbluesky.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
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a view looking up at a frog with legs outstretched under swirling water
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Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"To be, is to be enough."
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Grief 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
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Libby Nugent @libbynugent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A 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...
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Navigating the Death Mother: Ambivalence and Attachment in the NHS
A space to explore the emotional toll of NHS Work and the tension between care and sacrifice.
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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
When 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
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
'Bluebell Solitude' by printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt
Print of a woodland scene with trees with lush green leaves and blue and white flowers covering the groung
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 16/05/2025
To 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
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
You 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
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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The 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
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Philippa Perry @pperry.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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ASK PHILIPPA: The Epidemic of Parental Estrangement
When your adult children cut you off
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womensartbluesky.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
Pen and ink drawings of the same small female character from taken from book illustrations in diffetent positions on a cream background
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Psychologically 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
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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken. - George Eliot
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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Today’s reading exercise.
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Psychoanalysis and Politics @psapol-org.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Happy birthday, Sıgmund Freud! Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born May 6th 1856 in Freiberg in the Austrian empire. Here with his chows.
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Tuula Rasen @tuularasen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Happy birthday to Dr. Freud!
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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
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Tattooed porcelain figurines by Scotland-based artist Jessica Harrison #womensart
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary UK artist and printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt
Print looking up to tbe sky at the silhouette of a large bird as it flies in the gap of the canopy of a forest
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Understanding one’s impact 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 is utterly central to understanding 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. - Paul Wachtel
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