Psych Support Melbourne

05/09/2021

The kaleidoscope and depth of you is still to be expressed.

05/09/2021

05/09/2021

We are forever in a state of dynamic becoming

06/08/2021

I was so touched by these words of love and loss - especially at a time when there is so much grief in the world. But…. also a time when the river beds of the world are being disturbed and we have the opportunity to be truly reflective and find a new way forward with more graciousness, generosity, respect and love.

Thinking of all the people that have had to ‘let a loved one go’

♥️

FAREWELL LETTER

(For All the Mothers Who Have Passed Away)

She wrote me a letter
after her death
and I remember
a kind of happy light
falling on the envelope
as I sat by the rose tree
on her old bench
at the back door,
so surprised by its arrival
wondering what she would say,
looking up before I could open it
and laughing to myself
in silent expectation.

Dear son, it is time
for me to leave you.
I am afraid that the words
you are used to hearing
are no longer mine to give,
they are gone and mingled
back in the world
where it is no longer
in my power
to be their first
original author
not their last loving bearer.
You can hear
motherly
words of affection now
only from your own mouth
and only
when you speak them
to those
who stand
motherless
before you.

As for me I must forsake
adulthood
and be bound gladly
to a new childhood.
You must understand
this apprenticeship
demands of me
an elemental innocence
from everything
I ever held in my hands.
I know your generous soul
is well able to let me go

you will in the end
be happy to know
my God was true
and I find myself
after loving you all so long,
in the wide,
infinite mercy
of being mothered myself.

P.S. All your intuitions were true.

…
FAREWELL LETTER
in River Flow
New & Selected Poems
Many Rivers Press © David Whyte
https://davidwhyte.com/collections/books/products/river-flow-new-selected-poems
…
A mother remains a mother even after they have passed away, and in many ways the conversation between mother and son, mother and daughter, if we allow it, can deepen and intensify after their going. My mother had lost her own mother at just thirteen years old, and I had the strongest intuition after she had gone that she was returning to the childhood that had ended too soon in the Ireland of her youth. To acknowledge a mother, but also to let her go into her own personhood, independent of that the fact that she brought us into this world, may be one of the more difficult steps in the maturity of that almost indissoluble bond. DW

Dublin Bay Roses
Photo © David Whyte
May 19th 2020

River Flow contains more than one hundred poems selected from David's five previously published works, together with 23 new poems, including a cycle of new poems set in the Irish landscape, a tribute to an Ethiopian woman navigating her first escalator and a meditation of love and benediction for hi...

22/06/2021

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch Albom

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move away.
The moments that used to define them are covered by
moments of their own accomplishments.

It is not until much later, that
children understand;
their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories
of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,
beneath the water of their lives.”

Paul Coelho

29/04/2021

Meet the Author: Series 2021

Petra Bueskens
Interviewer: Nada Lane

Date: Saturday 29th May 2021
Time: 9.00 - 11.00am
Cost: $20AUD

This seminar will be solely on Zoom
Australian Daylight Savings (Sydney) Time

About the Author:
Dr Petra Bueskens is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, a psychotherapist in private practice and a freelance opinion writer. Her books include Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities (Routledge 2018), the edited volumes Mothering and Psychoanalysis (Demeter, 2014), Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Palgrave, 2020) and the Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On (Palgrave, 2021). Her opinion pieces have appeared in New Matilda, The Conversation, The Huffington Post, Areo Magazine and others.

About the Interviewer:

Nada Lane is a Melbourne psychotherapist working in the psychoanalytic, developmental, relational, existential and family systems traditions. She is also a Unit Co-ordinator for the subject Parent Therapy in the Master of Mental Health Science - Child Psychotherapy, Monash University. In addition to her psychoanalytic, social work and teaching qualifications, Nada majored in fine arts and literature in her Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne.

Download the flyer (PDF)

http://www.iarppaustralia.com.au/images/2021/IARPP-Meet-the-Author-Petra-Bueskens-2021.pdf

Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering:
Forty Years On
Editors: Bueskens, Petra (Ed.)
This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow’s canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars—including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens—in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection, critical analysis and new directions in Chodorowian scholarship.

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK THE DAY BEFORE THE SEMINAR

11/02/2021

Dreadful!!! We need to be accountable for our role in this world.

05/01/2021

Confronting Fundamental Problems of the Human Condition and Pressing Problems of the Day

27/12/2020

“Our immortality comes from becoming part of something which lives on after our death. Family, community, and even world wide”