Martha Crawford
@whatashrinkthinks.com
focused on: death work, dream work, community building & psychologies of liberation
Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine
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Quaker-ish
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Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine
Crone
Quaker-ish
She/Her
Website: whatashrinkthinks.com
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Martha Crawford
@whatashrinkthinks.com
· Jul 17
What A Shrink Thinks
Martha Crawford offering workshops, consultations, and essays on dreams,
death, contemplation, community resilience and psychologies of liberation
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
A thread to pin to my feed about the different kinds of work that I do around something central that feels whole to me:
Almost everything is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis
Upcoming events and workshops are a good place to start
Almost everything is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis
Upcoming events and workshops are a good place to start
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we are living thorough 10 years of moral collapse. it’s happening everywhere but is concentrated in the US. we have given up on even trying to argue that there must be more to life, both individually and collectively, than bare materialism and power. we must rededicate ourselves to meaningful life.
December 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
we are living thorough 10 years of moral collapse. it’s happening everywhere but is concentrated in the US. we have given up on even trying to argue that there must be more to life, both individually and collectively, than bare materialism and power. we must rededicate ourselves to meaningful life.
I dream I have a presentation to make to get into a PhD program in physics. (This is hilarious considering how severe my innumeracy)
I know I look ill prepared to the evaluators & I tell them it is more far important to me that my points are as comprehensive as possible rather than polished.
I know I look ill prepared to the evaluators & I tell them it is more far important to me that my points are as comprehensive as possible rather than polished.
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I dream I have a presentation to make to get into a PhD program in physics. (This is hilarious considering how severe my innumeracy)
I know I look ill prepared to the evaluators & I tell them it is more far important to me that my points are as comprehensive as possible rather than polished.
I know I look ill prepared to the evaluators & I tell them it is more far important to me that my points are as comprehensive as possible rather than polished.
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I’m going to be immersing myself in Otto Rank’s “Beyond Psychotherapy” over the next month or so and sharing my reflections in this series if that interests anyone
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m going to be immersing myself in Otto Rank’s “Beyond Psychotherapy” over the next month or so and sharing my reflections in this series if that interests anyone
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This is a way to help some folks who need access to free support & by donation consultations, therapy (for those in NY) and workshops-
And get access to some writing and conversation in exchange
These subscriptions allow me to offer services on a pay-whatever-you-can-or-not basis
And get access to some writing and conversation in exchange
These subscriptions allow me to offer services on a pay-whatever-you-can-or-not basis
Here are some affordable subscriptions I offer - again, the very small income from these helps me offer more pro bono and by donation support to folks in hardship
The Lectio essay subscription: two essays a month exploring psycho-spiritual theme and a monthly drop in discussion group
The Lectio essay subscription: two essays a month exploring psycho-spiritual theme and a monthly drop in discussion group
Lectio Essays | Explore Insightful Reflections — What A Shrink Thinks
Delve into meditative essays and discussions on archetypal, mystical texts. Subscribe for thought-provoking content twice monthly.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a way to help some folks who need access to free support & by donation consultations, therapy (for those in NY) and workshops-
And get access to some writing and conversation in exchange
These subscriptions allow me to offer services on a pay-whatever-you-can-or-not basis
And get access to some writing and conversation in exchange
These subscriptions allow me to offer services on a pay-whatever-you-can-or-not basis
I really don't feel like looking back over 2025 at all.
I hung in there.
I kept trying to get tools I see as essential (community building, discernment, emotional, intuitional skills)
into hands to negotiate the converging crises we are negotiating.
That's all I've got for a year in review.
I hung in there.
I kept trying to get tools I see as essential (community building, discernment, emotional, intuitional skills)
into hands to negotiate the converging crises we are negotiating.
That's all I've got for a year in review.
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I really don't feel like looking back over 2025 at all.
I hung in there.
I kept trying to get tools I see as essential (community building, discernment, emotional, intuitional skills)
into hands to negotiate the converging crises we are negotiating.
That's all I've got for a year in review.
I hung in there.
I kept trying to get tools I see as essential (community building, discernment, emotional, intuitional skills)
into hands to negotiate the converging crises we are negotiating.
That's all I've got for a year in review.
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The Trump administration is putting extreme restrictions to Head Start programs, including preventing the use of words like “woman,” “disability,” and “race” when applying for grants.
We're taking President Trump to court to protect this critical program.
We're taking President Trump to court to protect this critical program.
December 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Trump administration is putting extreme restrictions to Head Start programs, including preventing the use of words like “woman,” “disability,” and “race” when applying for grants.
We're taking President Trump to court to protect this critical program.
We're taking President Trump to court to protect this critical program.
When clients and therapists dream about each other.
Strange Dreams — What A Shrink Thinks
You know those nights, when you're sleeping, and it's totally dark, and absolutely silent, and you don't dream, and there's only blackness, and this is the reason, it's because on those nights you've ...
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
When clients and therapists dream about each other.
Me and the lap-beagle
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Me and the lap-beagle
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a theme running through Kathryn Joyce’s THE CHILD CATCHERS is that the evangelical frenzy for intercountry #adoption was at least partly rooted in the belief that material aid aimed at family preservation was inferior, because it was their children’s souls that needed rescuing.
Here’s an idea. How about Christian’s go home and stop trying to convert people in countries they don’t belong in. That will stop the ‘slaughtering’ immediately.
December 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
a theme running through Kathryn Joyce’s THE CHILD CATCHERS is that the evangelical frenzy for intercountry #adoption was at least partly rooted in the belief that material aid aimed at family preservation was inferior, because it was their children’s souls that needed rescuing.
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Few things as frustrating as the constant gaslighting from a country that tells everyone to devalue us, romantically, emotionally, socially, certainly sexually, while also denying that that's what it's doing.
December 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Few things as frustrating as the constant gaslighting from a country that tells everyone to devalue us, romantically, emotionally, socially, certainly sexually, while also denying that that's what it's doing.
You map people
New Mexico isn’t red.
New Mexico isn’t red.
Everything changed with the 2010 election. In a historic realignment, the GOP won a majority of governorships and state legislative chambers.
Now, Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published November 2023. trib.al/RPzl4Rw
Now, Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published November 2023. trib.al/RPzl4Rw
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
You map people
New Mexico isn’t red.
New Mexico isn’t red.
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Faith leaders denied access to Broadview ICE facility on Christmas Eve
Faith leaders denied access to Broadview ICE facility on Christmas Eve
A group of local faith leaders was hoping to be allowed inside the ICE Detention Facility in Broadview to offer prayer and Christmas communion for those inside, but instead they had to hold their pray...
abc7chicago.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Faith leaders denied access to Broadview ICE facility on Christmas Eve
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Every loser misfit in America, rich or poor, wants to live in the Matrix where everything is fake and perfect. They can't comprehend why you, a normal person, don't also share this desire.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every loser misfit in America, rich or poor, wants to live in the Matrix where everything is fake and perfect. They can't comprehend why you, a normal person, don't also share this desire.
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DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
Absolutely this.
I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
And as several folks are saying in the comments: curiosity about the Epstein files is understandable, but just for yourself personally, think carefully about what you want in your head forever.
It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
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It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Absolutely this.
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I've been thinking about this a lot too.
Fat people are often also excluded from immigrating to countries with universal healthcare.
Fat people are often also excluded from immigrating to countries with universal healthcare.
Internationally- universal healthcare almost always closes immigration for elderly, chronically ill and disabled folks.
This is something I think about a lot.
This is something I think about a lot.
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I've been thinking about this a lot too.
Fat people are often also excluded from immigrating to countries with universal healthcare.
Fat people are often also excluded from immigrating to countries with universal healthcare.
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Me too!!!
If my trans kid moved to a country with less oppressive laws then my disabled kid and disabled wife couldn’t follow. There’s no real answer … other than to fight here and try to win.
If my trans kid moved to a country with less oppressive laws then my disabled kid and disabled wife couldn’t follow. There’s no real answer … other than to fight here and try to win.
Internationally- universal healthcare almost always closes immigration for elderly, chronically ill and disabled folks.
This is something I think about a lot.
This is something I think about a lot.
December 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Me too!!!
If my trans kid moved to a country with less oppressive laws then my disabled kid and disabled wife couldn’t follow. There’s no real answer … other than to fight here and try to win.
If my trans kid moved to a country with less oppressive laws then my disabled kid and disabled wife couldn’t follow. There’s no real answer … other than to fight here and try to win.
Internationally- universal healthcare almost always closes immigration for elderly, chronically ill and disabled folks.
This is something I think about a lot.
This is something I think about a lot.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Internationally- universal healthcare almost always closes immigration for elderly, chronically ill and disabled folks.
This is something I think about a lot.
This is something I think about a lot.
Peace on earth has got to be so much easier for all life on earth than the efforts to apply such cruelty and to survive it.
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Peace on earth has got to be so much easier for all life on earth than the efforts to apply such cruelty and to survive it.
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I’m trying to imagine a life where self-reflexion & compassion are an undesirable option instead of the only life ring to cling onto in terrible turbulent seas.
Its very hard to do.
Its very hard to do.
December 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I’m trying to imagine a life where self-reflexion & compassion are an undesirable option instead of the only life ring to cling onto in terrible turbulent seas.
Its very hard to do.
Its very hard to do.
Its interesting to me that the anti-woke experience self-reflection and compassion as “too much work” and a call to labor instead a call to self-awareness.
December 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Its interesting to me that the anti-woke experience self-reflection and compassion as “too much work” and a call to labor instead a call to self-awareness.
“🎼🎶 and a haaapyyy New Year!🎵
Donald Trump, basically acknowledging that so far at least he’s losing the fight over Epstein.
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“🎼🎶 and a haaapyyy New Year!🎵
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If we disengage, we excuse our choices.
Moral, ethical actors aren't the source of the judgement felt, feeling is internal, created within us. Mocking the messenger originates within us too. Our habits are reinforced by a multi-billion dollar effort, yet we choose not to see those actors.
Moral, ethical actors aren't the source of the judgement felt, feeling is internal, created within us. Mocking the messenger originates within us too. Our habits are reinforced by a multi-billion dollar effort, yet we choose not to see those actors.
December 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If we disengage, we excuse our choices.
Moral, ethical actors aren't the source of the judgement felt, feeling is internal, created within us. Mocking the messenger originates within us too. Our habits are reinforced by a multi-billion dollar effort, yet we choose not to see those actors.
Moral, ethical actors aren't the source of the judgement felt, feeling is internal, created within us. Mocking the messenger originates within us too. Our habits are reinforced by a multi-billion dollar effort, yet we choose not to see those actors.
Up to here with billionaires thinking they know more than people living in reality.
December 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Up to here with billionaires thinking they know more than people living in reality.
Why has this day made me more tired than all other days?
I suddenly feel like I’ve been engaged in relentless purposeless work for my whole life
I suddenly feel like I’ve been engaged in relentless purposeless work for my whole life
a person is pushing a large rock up a hill
Alt: a person is pushing a large rock up a hill
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Why has this day made me more tired than all other days?
I suddenly feel like I’ve been engaged in relentless purposeless work for my whole life
I suddenly feel like I’ve been engaged in relentless purposeless work for my whole life