Ivor Williams

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Designer and End-of-Life Doula • I write about the experience of being alive • I also design things • Lead for End-of-Life Care at Helix Centre, Imperial College London • Previously: Co-founded music therapy product Cove, one of the first mental health apps approved by the NHS
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Here is your Weekly Review, my regular substack - the last of 2022 for me.

Six links and a playlist of music. Go on. It's nearly Christmas🎄

https://t.co/Nk9szIGJf7

Weekly Review Issue no.5

On being a monster, kind care as a compass and lessons from a dying therapist

Notes from the Edge by Ivor Williams

Latest substack piece from me: unpacking what ‘being whole’ means through two images that I’ve discovered in the last year.

The notion of wholeness, or coming to or returning to wholeness is on my mind a lot. It’s in part due to my own therapeutic journey and in another part to my own research into what really matters when it comes to living a full, meaningful life.

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https://ivorwilliams.substack.com/p/we-are-not-just-single-beams-of-white?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=qojo

We are not just single beams of white light

Conceptually unpacking what 'being whole' means

Notes from the Edge by Ivor Williams

New substack from me: Have you felt at peace?

I’m researching and exploring existential anxiety, which sounds quite intense (it can be) but it’s also wonderfully liberating.

This piece hangs from my experience talking with a dying woman and her taking meaning at the end of life from quantum physics.

If that’s your bag, subscribe for more!

https://open.substack.com/pub/ivorwilliams/p/have-you-felt-at-peace?r=qojo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Have you felt at peace?

The one question that matters

Notes from the Edge by Ivor Williams
Sounds like a Chris Morris Jam sketch
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“This upset one of their party because they’d specifically booked a cruise with no fancy dress” 🤣 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/passenger-in-clown-suit-prompts-mass-brawl-on-po-cruise-ship
https://twitter.com/alexevansuk/status/1155210988481912833
Passenger in clown suit prompted mass cruise ship brawl, say witnesses

Staff injured after late-night fight breaks out in buffet area onboard P&O vessel

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No matter what your religious or spiritual practices, you can tap into your individual sense of spirit by doing daily “gut-checks” to listen to your intuition and taking quiet downtime to reflect, journal, meditate or pray—whatever helps you feel more connected to yourself.
Glad to hear ‘the transition’ come up again as a descriptor potentially for this age we’re entering (helpful to describe the grand narrative). But the idea around ‘the freedom to care’ was very apt and very useful
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Actually really enjoyed having this discussion with @vinodrjkn for @futureofgood https://futureofgood.co/episode-2-moving-from-an-individual-to-a-collective-worldview-with-indy-johar/
https://twitter.com/indy_johar/status/1152304328721534977
Episode 2: Moving from an Individual to a Collective Worldview with Indy Johar

Climate change, poverty, hunger, division — these global challenges are all symptoms of a larger root problem, says Indy Johar, co-founder of Dark Matter Labs. To solve them, we need to move in a meaningful way from an individual worldview to a collective one.

Future of Good
I went to the doctor today. Had a physical exam, went through my issues as we talked about the Celtic history of his home region. He then prescribed me manual massage, mud treatment and told me to get a hobby (‘1 hour, every day!’). It felt like being in a Wes Anderson movie
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An informative Q&A with psychologist and #EndWell17 speaker Dr. Anthony Bossis about the palliative benefits of psychedelic use at end of life. via @[email protected] http://ow.ly/SbLM50vauYX
What Psilocybin Could Mean for End-of-Life Care

An investigator of the palliative effects of psychedelics gives his perspective.

Oh man
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Had the pleasure of meeting Rutger Hauer at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.
https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1154082683158454273
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“Had the pleasure of meeting Rutger Hauer at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.”

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A reminder of one the greatest chain of events ever to have taken place in Glasgow.