FIELD ARCHIVEField Notes
Essays, observations and reflections on the human experience.
These are the questions I keep returning to. Some begin with psychology. Others begin with a photograph, a conversation or an ordinary moment. All of them are attempts to better understand what it means to be human.
A High Distinction in Therapy
FIELD NOTE 003
I realised recently that I wasn't just doing therapy. I was trying to win it. I wanted to be the client with the insights, the one who had already connected all the dots before arriving. Performing insight looks remarkably like having it, which is why it took me so long to notice.
The Body Knows Before We Do
FIELD NOTE 002
I was halfway along the boardwalk when the goosebumps started. Then came the tears. Nothing bad had happened. In fact, something very good had. Sometimes the body knows something before the mind catches up, and sometimes an ordinary walk becomes the place where you finally notice it.
The Direction of Home
FIELD NOTE 001
Finding Is a Destination. Staying Is a Practice. People talk a lot about finding yourself, but I don't think I've ever been lost in the way the phrase implies. What I've been learning, slowly and with a fairly average success rate, is how to stay with myself. Finding is a destination. Staying is a practice.