Janet Ferguson, LMFT

12/10/2025

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Maya Angelou

12/09/2025

Ethan Hawke says he was "aware" of Robin Williams' struggles when they filmed "Dead Poets Society" together.

“Even at 18, I was aware of the complexity of his emotional life. I’ve had a lot of depression in my family, and it was obvious to me that all that power and that charisma came at a certain cost. He was a deeply, deeply sensitive person who was highly attuned to the energy of a room... There’s a lot of stories about clowns and the happiness they give and at what cost. So I say all that to say, the end of his life does not define his life to me. And when I watch the movie, I think of the spirit of the man I knew in those days and how powerful it was and how much he weathered that storm of his psyche for us and for other people.”

Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/film/global/ethan-hawke-aware-robin-williams-struggles-dead-poets-society-1236603053/

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Research shows that expressing yourself in writing can help reduce mental distress and improve well-being, including easing symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Learn more: https://at.apa.org/e6f2c4

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The Shape Grief Takes

There is no right or wrong way to grieve,
no map, no timetable etched in stone.
Some days grief spills in tears,
other days it settles quietly
in the corners of the soul,
soft as a shadow, almost invisible to the world.

It may rise as anger, hot, wild, consuming.
It may come as confusion,
or as exhaustion that washes over us like a tide.
Some of us hold memories close,
finding solace in tender recollections.
Others drift toward silence, toward solitude,
where the heart has room to breathe,
to ache, to remember.

Even within one heart,
grief moves in waves.
What feels gentle today
may strike tomorrow with the force of a storm.
One moment we move through the world,
carrying our days almost with ease,
the next, a scent, a song, an empty room recalls a presence now gone,
and the air fractures.

If we meet ourselves with tenderness,
with patience through the challenging days,
with kindness through the darker ones,
grief becomes not a burden, but a doorway,
not a path to forgetting,
but a way to live again,
with softness, with memory,
and with the quiet strength of a love transformed.

~'The Shape Grief Takes' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Unknown via Pinterest