So, when does the Demonology and Trauma book club / group therapy session meet?

[sebenikela]

So, I just finished Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach thanks to recommendations from kaberett and rydra_wong

Holy shit.

I started tearing up when Aubrey Thyme said "No."

I started crying when you do you, sweetie

I fucking sobbed, out loud, like I haven't done in literal years, when I finished the fic.

I'm still kind of crying.

Because, see, here's the thing:

she said no and it was okay

she said no and Herself wasn't even mad about it.

she said no and she went to Hell and still it was okay

she said no, she went to Hell, and she still had friends (pen pals totally count)

And the fragment of shrapnel I've been carrying around since I was ten years old, made from "I can't make myself believe in God, what's wrong with me?" shifted, just a little further away from my heart.

Just... wow.

(Like Aubrey Thyme, I find all this sappiness rather distasteful, but sometimes there really isn't an alternative)

Comments

[kaberett]

I have been told by at least two people that they are Sorting Some More Therapy Out as a result of reading it, and I also got my act together to e-mail my therapist and ask about setting a session up for the first time in... months... SO YEAH I'M SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING A BOOK CLUB.

[to_do_list]

I am still reading (somewhere in the middle, needed to take a break), and already fully support this idea!

[siderea]

Thank you for the rec.

There needs to be an atheist therapists organization to sell me as a fundraiser a mug that says "God-Damned Professional Psychotherapist".

[indywind]

I would like to join the book club / virtual therapy-adjacent group. Which is saying something since I generally looooooathe group therapy.

(Here via surfing recessional and rydra_wong's circles, looking for some more online acquaintances who seem neat to specifically follow, to counteract a recent increase in thinking everyone sucks, brought about by coincidental encounters with people who suckare not to my taste. You seem neat, so hi!)

[sebenikela]

someone really should start this as a...Discord? that seems to be what the kids are using these days.

(and hi! welcome! i gave you access for flocked posts but please feel free to ignore the most recent ones, it's a lot of fairly complicated Family Stuff)