Wise Blood

Steve Wasserman
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I have a beard (George Michael, circa Faith rather than Methuselah). I work as a psychotherapist (stevewasserman.co.uk). I know lots of big words and interesting concepts from the excessive amounts of reading and writing, and staring at my own (and other’s) navels, which I do on a daily basis. Does this make me a wise human animal? Often not. But sometimes, for ten minutes or so...

Episodes

  1. 06/20/2021

    Amor Fati

    Accepting the mixed-bag Now of our lives. Hard. -- THE THING IS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. -Ellen Bass --  Full text of this episode can be found here: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/amor-fati/ -- Audio used in episode (in order of occurence):  -Jon & the Nightriders - Rumble at Waikiki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41YvSrk5paQ&t=81s -Can't Stop The Feeling (Justin Timberlake) - Original Piano Arrangement by Maucoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpOfn4rDcU -ET: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wcggztq9SspsBeXcrnHZo?highlight=spotify:track:3VVilIGlUJ6tIirr7GGCHs -Night Flight - Say Yes (Elliot Smith Cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQ0ac8A8hk -A Day In The Life (Orchestra Overdub): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecybFp71bnc -Reading of The Thing Is (Ellen Bass): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JONWgsZ6vm8 -Steven C. Hayes talking about Feeling & Experiential Avoidance: https://www.soundstrue.com/collections/authors-steven-c-hayes/products/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy -Extract from Bernard Malamud's A New Life: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140186816/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+new+life+malamud&qid=1624180687&sr=8-1 -Jane Hirshfield reading her poem Amor Fati: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92039/amor-fati  -Extract from The Gay Science: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Gay-Science-The-Joyful-Wisdom-Audiobook/B01EWAXDI4?qid=1624180836&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=ZN7BMAJ44S0DHR5PPNXE -Susan Buffam reading her poem Amor Fati: https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/amor-fati-4435 -“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye, A Poetry Film by Ana Pérez López: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFLQOOiAqxQ&t=15s -Elliott Smith ~ Say Yes (Live in Stockholm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOnHEApbjV0 -Itzhak Perlman plays Fiddler on the Roof (John Williams Los Angeles Philharmonic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h745la-Lo1I -Neil De Grasse Tyson giving an overview of our 65 million year-old hominid evolutionary history: https://samharris.org/podcasts/252-alone-universe/ -Can't Stop The Feeling by Justin Timberlake Live (Downbeat LA Cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGz7Nbaavgg&ab_channel=DownbeatDownbeat -Hakeem Oluseyi waxing lyrical about astrophysics: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-quantum-life-with-hakeem-oluseyi/

  2. 05/21/2021

    Setbacks

    What my friend Charlie taught me about having a "good" break-up (or any other painful setback in life). Text version can be found here: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/4793-2/

  3. 05/15/2021

    Trauma

    What I have learnt from my dog-child Max about trauma. Text version of this piece: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/trauma/

  4. 03/22/2021

    What's Your Thread?

    I've got my philosophy (keeps my feet on the ground). You?

  5. 03/13/2021

    Love Is A Losing Game

    What my friends Jackie and Guy (circa 1987) taught me about Eros.

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I have a beard (George Michael, circa Faith rather than Methuselah). I work as a psychotherapist (stevewasserman.co.uk). I know lots of big words and interesting concepts from the excessive amounts of reading and writing, and staring at my own (and other’s) navels, which I do on a daily basis. Does this make me a wise human animal? Often not. But sometimes, for ten minutes or so...

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  • Creator
    Steve Wasserman
  • Years Active
    2021
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Steve Wasserman
  • Show Website
    Wise Blood