Chris MessinaMay 16, 2023

"New words make new thoughts and feelings possible. As a collective we appear to be coming around to the idea that bigger social forces run through us, animating us and pitting us against one another, whatever our conscious intentions. To invert a truism, the political is personal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/couples-therapy-orna-guralnik.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships.

For more and more of Orna Guralnik’s patients, the ideas behind Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are leading to breakthroughs at home.

The New York Times
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®May 16, 2023

@chrismessina I wonder how much of this is delayed fall-out from Spring 2020 quarantine and generational cohorts confronting themselves for the first time ever.

cc: @moorehn

Show threadChris MessinaMay 17, 2023
@paninid @moorehn absolutely. It was one of the greatest pauses in modernity; it gave space for a lot to bubble up that had been suppressed through years of assumed urgency and we'll-get-to-it-laterness.
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®
@chrismessina @moorehn I posted a question asking what to sell this cohort of personas in my professional network. The best advice was: “Xanax”
May 17, 2023 at 2:59amWeb
Show threadChris MessinaMay 17, 2023
@paninid @moorehn All that latent anxiety catching up with us