On my mind this morning… Spent much of the last two days trying to navigate a health system that simply does not function for #disabled people in #employment Receptionist informed me “it would be easier if you didn’t work” 🙄

songwriting.org.uk We are honoured and delighted to be working with Holly Shirra at our Cambridge therapeutic songwriting programme. #therapeuticsongwriting

"I’d like to encourage those who might be interested to use songwriting this way - as a means to understand the patterns that rattle ever outward from some unknowable depth at the core of our being." lauramarling.substack.com/p/the-tarot-of…

New #musictherapyconversations episode on Wednesday - Karen Goodman on #musictherapy education, #supervision, and her varied clinical work in a distinguished career to date. Don’t miss!

Good response to DEP critique from Patrick Dwyer: autisticscholar.com/the-meaning-of…

#musictherapyconversations episode 87 is with Karen Goodman - clinical practice, supervision, training and transversality. What to do when you don't know what to do. Download today jazztoad.libsyn.com

RT if you'd love to see Jovan Owusu-Nepaul take Nigel Farage and his racist bollocks down.

Luke Annesley Likewise it can also cause irritation, increase pain or cause pain, provoke sensory dysregulation, and provoke unwanted, intrusive or traumatic memories. Which frankly is another reason to that a competent, risk aware MT can be an asset. Music has to be used with care.

Interested in how singing can help us during difficult times? Check out this fascinating online event next Wed inc appearance from #SingForHappiness crew 🤓

WE DID IT! Bristol, we made history💚 Thank you so much to the people of Bristol Central who have elected me as their MP As this city's first Green MP, I promise to be a strong, independent voice for Bristol's values, pushing the govt to be bolder on the issues that matter

🚨 So, it appears #ToriesAreOut - lots of them will be looking for jobs. Can you help? 🙏🏻 Please share the #ToryMPAppeal.

#musictherapy conversations ep 88 is out - it's the roundtable discussion from #BAMT2024 with Davina Vencatasamy (she/her) Tilly Mütter and Rachel Darnley-Smith along with surprise guests Adopt Music Therapy and Wendy Magee A great moment to reflect on the whole project! jazztoad.libsyn.com

If your job posting says the position has competitive pay, you could always just state what the actual salary range is...

1/ Masochism is a key psychoanalytic concept One form is victim entitlement—insistence one is entitled to special compensation in proportion to suffering & victimhood. Thus the need to *amplify* suffering in all ways Without treatment, suffering/victimhood becomes a way of life