Penny Fellbrich, MFT

Do yourself a favour and watch the wonderful Christian Robinson series "Making Space"! He is the Mr. Rogers of this time. Share with your friends of all ages. I love so much about him! He keeps it real and speaks so clearly about feelings. (I loved each episode but this one will make my EFT couples therapist friends smile.) Sara Van Zutphen Oakes and Sean Feit Oakes not sure if you have screen time at home but you'll love this guy! Detti Que, have you seen this series?!! Cianna Stewart, Amy Swart MFT, Psychotherapy & Yoga, Seth T. Pardo, Nicki Wakeling and Ali Maida, thought you'd love him too!

I'm re-reading Resmaa Menakem's incredibly important 2017 book, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialised Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, and highly recommend it as well as the somatic experiencing practices throughout the book. Here is an audio taste of his brilliance. Listen to the unedited version! https://onbeing.org//resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notic/

An important film. Out today on Netflix! Trans representation, says activist, actress and executive producer Laverne Cox, can change some hearts and minds, it can inspire people, but it needs to be combined with efforts to shift ideology and institutions and public policy and, again, the material conditions of people’s lives.

A wonderful interview that brought tears to my eyes. "...there's no such thing as one-way liberation... when we free ourselves, we automatically free everyone around us. When we grant ourselves permission to live as our truest selves. We automatically grant permission to everyone around us to do the same. So the most loving motherly nurturing life-saving thing a woman can do is know herself and trust herself and be herself and go for what she wants unapologetically." Yes, and I will add Audre Lorde's 1981 truth: "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is anyone of you."

Brene Brown and Harriet Lerner podcast on how to apologise (and why it matters). Excellent, relationship saving practices on how to apologise. (I wish their examples were less heteronormative and included the incredibly useful explanations of how our nervous systems can make saying "I'm sorry" so hard, but still some very useful, practical steps.) https://brenebrown.com//harriet-lerner-and-brene-im-sorry/