Reviving my blog: School of life

So whilst recognising that it is now mid-February and I am over a month late for making resolutions (read: it’s never too late); I am making one - to pay some attention to this tired and underloved blog, having let it lie fallow for the past year or so. I’m not a natural writer so this is not my comfort space, but I’m going to try and share in an interesting way the things I’m finding interesting, books, videos, events and the like. The wild and rambling musings of a psychotherapist in London is my aim, for anyone that may find that interesting; warts, type-os and all.

I’m going to start by sharing one of my favourite YouTube channels: The School of Life by Alain de Botton. I find that it is often rare to find informative, helpful, engaging and beautiful content on the subjects of psychology and psychotherapy. Too often they are stuffy, overly complex, even elitist in their feel and delivery; weighed down by endless technical terms and abbreviations that even the most scholarly would need to cross-reference.

Where other’s fail, the School of Life succeded in providing digestible and thoughtful content on subjects such as art, philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy. I often recommend them to the clients I work with as ways to further explore and understand the concepts and ideas we are exploring in the counselling room together. I hope you may find them as helpful as I have over the years, I’ve included a taster down below (if it works properly!) on their introduction and explainer of how and why psychotherapy works. Enjoy!