Really enjoying this book.

Talking with or talking to…. Spot the difference?

Are you attached to the idea that attachment is the source of suffering?

Today, as I think about how important it feels to think together with others about what it means to lead a good life, I wonder whether that is what it means to lead a good life? If so, is it the answer for me, the answer for everyone, or some? Also, what if it isn’t? What if it’s something else?

Join me at the Existential Movement Festival of Life 2026 where I am excited to be sharing my reflections on "Did Socrates reveal to us the lived experience of free will, choice and responsibility?" onlinevents.co.uk/event/existe...

Or maybe: “As I watch this and try to make sense of my experience, I notice that Floella Benjamin—someone I associate with a beautiful, warm smile—is not smiling. Could it be that the negative emotion stirring within me finds its meaning through this observation?” ?

Excellent listen thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social

“Diversity does not create unity”. Are we not all different and united in our diversity? How do we want to respond - stand against each other or work together? #existential www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

From this last episode I now understand the formative life experiences that sit beneath his lectures. I need to hear the previous ones again now. Is that why this order was chosen? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This debate feels just like those about smoking years ago. I wonder about the forces and resources that sit behind the speakers on all sides. My father was a smoker until he died of lung cancer….. I miss him. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I am less entertained hearing people speak who are there because they want to speak. I’m finding myself more captivated by those whose voices I don’t hear….

When Donald Trumps words were edited he threatened legal action? - @rutgerbregman.com what will you do?

Socrates died at the hands of a jury……https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n0jc?partner=uk.co.bbc

BBC - please explain why we couldn’t hear these words in particular?

Is it correct that the BBC have edited out some of the lecture despite it being approved before it was recorded? What have we not been allowed to hear? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Find myself thinking about the immorality of morality…… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I used to really enjoy listening to the Moral Maze on R4 but no more. Thinking my obsession with all things Socrates over the last few years is shifting something…..

I’d like to get beyond the question of whether we have free will. Not yet found a convincing argument either way, pointers please, anyone?

I’m loving what Hadot has to say about Socrates. #socrates #existential #therapy

Control freak? Freak sounds bad - no? If you think you are one then how does it feel when you think you do not have the right relationship with “control” - that actually you are out of control? Time for a rethink?..

Is it irrational to be rational with someone who is being irrational?

If we know we know nothing then we are confronted with knowing something? So wisdom is not a characteristic that can be ascribed to a human? If we cannot be wise then how are we to respond?

Well I met one person convinced that every opportunity should be welcomed and considered and another person who stated that looking after what you already have is where the energy is best spent. Those positions are right for them at that moment but must be held as provisional looking forwards?

Back online after 17th September. I'm going in search of an old fashioned agora experience so I can have conversations about how life should be lived. I will let you know of any new provisional knowings..... Stay safe and look after each other! #existential

I’m not sure I can agree. I can say “what does not kill us, does not kill us”.

Plato's words or that of his teacher Socrates? #existential #socrates #therapy

Loved this. An episode on Socrates please? @nataliehaynes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I wonder if he still thought this at the end of his life?

Words so easily said and would probably be forgotten, if Socrates hadn’t lived and then died by them?

So what does it mean to live? #existential #therapy

I wondering whether "respectful" is something we can know about another or an experience we have in relation to another? #existential #therapy #adhd

Stated with a conviction and certainty that I find unnerving - so maybe he’s onto something? #existential #socrates #therapy

Thank you @wiringthebrain.bsky.social. I think I understood that we can decide to do things differently but we cannot decide that it needs us to decide to do things differently?

"No one ever does wrong willingly/knowingly" I wish Socrates was alive today - I'd really like to talk with him about this.... #socrates #existential #therapy

And to constantly seek to refine and improve our questioning whilst never letting go of the search for the answer of the question - why question? #existential #therapy #socrates

Great question, but framed rhetorically and I wonder what is meant by “easier”. I prefer what do I, you and we live for? #existential #therapy

Sometimes a book comes along....... be ready to be open to be "refuted" www.audible.co.uk/pd/I-May-Be-...

Who decides on what constitutes "important intellectual abilities and dispositions"? Is it possible that a predisposition to study philosophy is more important to cultivation than the study itself? Thank you @apa-journal.bsky.social for publishing.

How refreshingly Socratic to see the concept of "Free Will" being re-examined. Although the suggestion that we now have answers as to "why our biology determines our ideology" and an "explanation" merely takes us away again from being Socratic...... @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

When I think of Socratic Philosophy I imagine this "principle" as a provisional knowing, one open for examination with a view to moving towards truth. The relevance today (as always) being that a "belief" that demands everyone to be a certain way is divisive?

"the true Socratic is convinced of the ignorance not only of himself but of all mankind" discuss?

Looking forward to getting started on this! Thank you @neelburton.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/8PZpw3i #existential #therapy #socrates

“anyone who shows you that you’ve taken the wrong path does you a great favour in saving you from error.” Thank you @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

Currently listening to this, thank you @donjrobertson.bsky.social for the recommendation. amzn.eu/d/2pimDMg #existential #therapy #socrates

I’m not entirely clear on what ego is, although I’m suspecting that once we are clear about the definition we will conclude we need the right amount of it?

Whilst I’m sharing my favourite listening - here’s some more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #socrates #therapy #existential

It's a good question, and as a therapist it brings me to a question which I think needs answering first, what does it means for something to be therapeutic? #therapy #existential #socrates

Whilst most people think about the way Plato gave us Socrates, I wonder about how Socrates gave us Plato? #socrates #existential #therapy

Yesterday I saw someone wearing a Hemlock branded hat and thought of Socrates, or was it my fascination with Socrates that meant I noticed the branding? #socrates #existential #therapy