#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23: gold filagree Hand knit brioche cables in wool 🧶

Happy Die Hard Day (AKA Die Hard is a Christmas Movie Day), to all who celebrate

‘Tis the season for regression, fa la la la la, la la la la. Now you need a therapy session, fa la la la la, la la la. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/why-...

Here's Cernunnos, wishing you all a merry Yuletide, however you celebrate! The name Cernunnos appears in an inscription on a first-century CE Roman pillar from Gaul, associated with a horned figure.

Women’s experiences of pain – and how pain is felt, understood and lived through the body – sit at the heart of the exhibition.

Seeing more clearly is the first step toward wiser action.

Not sure who needs to see this. Some great advice from a beautiful story.

Working Clinically with Suicide Risk: Psychological Practice and Leadership in the NHS Monday 26 January 2026 9:15 am - 4:30 pm £60.00 (Free for members) For more information and to book your place, click here: acpuk.org.uk/event/workin...

#LiteraryAdventCalendar2025 Day 22. From Saki's marvellous 'The Storyteller', in which a bachelor is forced to sit in a railway carriage with three small children and their aunt.

This book has contributed to so much online misinformation. In our study, we've documented now that there's a belief that CBT is HARMFUL or ineffective for trauma :S You know, the literal opposite of what seems to be true. Often propagated by "somatic" therapists www.jmir.org/2023/1/e45571/

We definitely do need anti-misogyny lessons in school.

To be fair they had some celeb ambassadors & PM all over it. I think fault is more on our (media) side. It’s a week since a man was jailed for burning a woman & her three kids to death *because her sister had ended their relationship* ffs, you’d think maybe aVAWG strategy could get taken seriously

“In short, she thinks the government’s initiatives are important…I am glad I asked, because things are worse than I thought…There’s a critical mass of men, the vast majority of men, who would never dream of behaving in that way but are also, I think, not necessarily yet aware of the problem.”

This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Walking in nature reduces activity in the brain region linked to sadness and rumination. A psychologist on why active rest periods—not couch time—are what actually restore us during the holidays. buff.ly/RxJjMbO

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

I used to think “glimmers” were just more toxic positivity in disguise. But they are not about finding “silver linings” nor intended to "change our mindset." Recognizing glimmers is about increasing our capacity to recognize calmness when we are already calm, to make sensing calmness feel normal.

The psychological effects of lacking physical space: A systematic literature review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Strength is a collective power we draw from one another" 💚

Consider: the overwhelm you feel is the signature product of extractive systems that require exponential growth to continue.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a

We must learn hard lessons @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social. To protect people now and in the next pandemic, the UK should focus on core safeguards: correct use of high‑filtration face coverings in healthcare, crowded public settings, and during surges, clean indoor air, and access to trusted vaccine.

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

Exactly this. At some point I realized "This is so much bigger than me, the problem precedes me, it's much bigger than I can solve. And eventually I have a responsibility to be steady and heal, and to create conditions for steadiness and healing."

Matthew Fox calls this the via negativa. The way of lamentation, isolation, alienation. This solitary way – where no teacher, no lover, no family member, no therapist can go with you - can become a healing path as well.

YES. Also: forgiveness can be as simple as writing off a bad debt. “I’m never getting that back, and any thing offered back will be contaminated or insufficient so I’ll forgive it and close the case” Forgiveness isn’t repair. Its just release.

Hi Juliet. Here is a free link to this article: tricycle.org/article/heal...

A quick minute of #entrelac #sock #knitting on 12/15/25. #knitsky

Early research hints that women with endometriosis may face a higher chance of Long Covid but more evidence is needed. Raising awareness can help guide better care. Details: shh-uk.org/?p=35298&... #LongCovid #longcovidawareness #Endometriosis #WomensHealth

Clinical folks, what's your best recommendation for someone trying to get better at Socratic questioning/dialogue? I went looking and found that even when authors said it was super important, they talked about it quite abstractly. Where's the how to? Please repost!

Porty Books work to get books to people who possibly wouldn’t get one otherwise. You can donate money on their website if you can’t get to the shop.

If you’ve been in the shop over the past week or so, you’ll have noticed that our annual Gift Giving Tree is up! 🎄 You can donate & find out about our Christmas Book Drive with partner charities Home-Start Edinburgh, Streetreads, & Ecole du Bon Berger here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/book-drive

#GameOfWool I'm so tired of the judges being so absolutely horrible & critical; the contestants shouldn't be left looking so utterly deflated. The teams feel really deliberate. I'm so fed up of them being horrible to Ailsa & Isaac.The whole focus on catwalk ready when it was a highly impactful piece

Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

I did this in person once. Met the guy who wrote the paper that changed my career and told him about it. He said, “wow, I didn’t think anyone read that paper!” 😂

I think the two most atrophied capacities in the cultures of the global north are: 1) acceptance and active relationship with uncertainty & humility 2) the ability to build and maintain healthy communities that allow for cooperation, individuation & self-regulation.

There's a thing I think is going on that we don't have a word for yet, at least I don't. I think it's one of the less noticed themes of 2025, actually.

We are proud to announce that ACP-UK’s latest book is now available for purchase via Routledge publishers. Routes into Clinical Neuropsychology Written by clinical psychologists for clinical psychologists. Order your copy here: www.routledge.com/Routes-into-...

We’re at the 63rd Maudsley Debate on ‘The Chatbot will see you now: This house believes AI will do more harm than good to the nation's mental health. #MaudsleyDebate

I like when Miss Piggy (as Mrs Cratchit) is primly supervising the roasting of the goose. Peter chirps “It smells so good, mother”, and while checking herself in the mirror Piggy drops a vocal register and says “It *does*, doesn’t it?” with a guttural relish that can only be described as carnal.

How many times do we have to be right about what's going on before everyone recognizes the link with the huge conflicts of interest held by the public health and infection control leaders minimizing the impacts of airborne diseases like flu and COVID, and pretending nothing can be done about them?

Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...

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Many countries dealt with Covid 19 very effectively. The UK pursued the wrong strategies and failed miserably, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Rather than learn the obvious lessons, the plan is to pretend there is no solution, and bestow honours on the architects of our negligent disaster.

Hugh Grant, "it's been very very depressing watching big tech kidnap children's lives" "And to see children to find it difficult to get interested in anything that isn't a screen" "Swarming around any screen that appears in a room instantly"

Excited to share a new article of mine on menopause, drawn from my on-going research in clinical psychology. I argue it’s a major developmental transition on par with puberty, shaped by culture as much as biology. Grateful for anyone who takes a look! www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

Our friends at the Anxiety and OCD Laboratory at Concordia University are conducting research to get to the heart of ‘just right’/incompleteness related symptoms in OCD. To find out more please visit our webpage: https://www.ocduk.org/do-you-experience-ocd-with-just-right-sensations-and-behaviours/