Peter Lowis
@bristolbluesky.bsky.social
UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, Couples therapist, Clinical supervisor, Trainer and Educator.
Interests: psychotherapy integration, psychoanalysis, eco psychology, non-theism.
bristolpsychotherapist.com
Interests: psychotherapy integration, psychoanalysis, eco psychology, non-theism.
bristolpsychotherapist.com
"We tie ourselves in knots, trying to be who we are not.
Trying not to be who we are."
~ undoing.me/undoing ~
Trying not to be who we are."
~ undoing.me/undoing ~
Undoing – undoing.me
undoing.me
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"We tie ourselves in knots, trying to be who we are not.
Trying not to be who we are."
~ undoing.me/undoing ~
Trying not to be who we are."
~ undoing.me/undoing ~
“Maybe, just maybe, we need to let the West die. Let it die, so that we can live.”
“You have a culture war when you don’t have a culture.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, How to fight the machine — UnHerd interview September 2025 ~
“You have a culture war when you don’t have a culture.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, How to fight the machine — UnHerd interview September 2025 ~
September 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Maybe, just maybe, we need to let the West die. Let it die, so that we can live.”
“You have a culture war when you don’t have a culture.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, How to fight the machine — UnHerd interview September 2025 ~
“You have a culture war when you don’t have a culture.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, How to fight the machine — UnHerd interview September 2025 ~
a paradox to live by:
“Always assume complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, you have no control and everything is out of your hands.”
“Always assume complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, you have no control and everything is out of your hands.”
August 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
a paradox to live by:
“Always assume complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, you have no control and everything is out of your hands.”
“Always assume complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, you have no control and everything is out of your hands.”
“The only thing that’s certainly true is that people who say that things are certain are certainly wrong.”
~ Iain McGilchrist, UnHerd Live 2025 ~
~ Iain McGilchrist, UnHerd Live 2025 ~
June 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“The only thing that’s certainly true is that people who say that things are certain are certainly wrong.”
~ Iain McGilchrist, UnHerd Live 2025 ~
~ Iain McGilchrist, UnHerd Live 2025 ~
Reposted by Peter Lowis
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
Douglas Coupland on SSRI’s: “It was, I suppose, like cosmetic surgery of the brain.”
~ Life After God (1994) ~
~ Life After God (1994) ~
May 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Douglas Coupland on SSRI’s: “It was, I suppose, like cosmetic surgery of the brain.”
~ Life After God (1994) ~
~ Life After God (1994) ~
"What if a human being is not primarily a rational, bestial or sexual animal but in fact a religious one: attuned to the great mystery of being; convinced that material reality is only a visible shard of the whole?"
Our Godless era is dead
A second religiousness is sweeping the West
unherd.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"What if a human being is not primarily a rational, bestial or sexual animal but in fact a religious one: attuned to the great mystery of being; convinced that material reality is only a visible shard of the whole?"
Focused on the positives and still feeling terrible? Try Radical Acceptance
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In a culture obsessed with positive thinking, can letting go be a radical act? | Nadine Levy
Beyond self-help mantras like ‘Let them’, radical acceptance shows us the value in learning how to truly accept life just the way it is
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Focused on the positives and still feeling terrible? Try Radical Acceptance
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
a colleague wrote the following. I like this a lot:
~ “I no longer speak of plans, but of crystallised intentions” ~
~ “I no longer speak of plans, but of crystallised intentions” ~
February 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
a colleague wrote the following. I like this a lot:
~ “I no longer speak of plans, but of crystallised intentions” ~
~ “I no longer speak of plans, but of crystallised intentions” ~
On conscious choice as an experimental act of self-creation:
"Decision-making is not merely logical; it is a convergence of intuition, cultural imprint, and raw instinct, calling for integration rather than domination by one mode of thought."
~ This Jungian Life podcast 07 Nov '24 ~
"Decision-making is not merely logical; it is a convergence of intuition, cultural imprint, and raw instinct, calling for integration rather than domination by one mode of thought."
~ This Jungian Life podcast 07 Nov '24 ~
January 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
On conscious choice as an experimental act of self-creation:
"Decision-making is not merely logical; it is a convergence of intuition, cultural imprint, and raw instinct, calling for integration rather than domination by one mode of thought."
~ This Jungian Life podcast 07 Nov '24 ~
"Decision-making is not merely logical; it is a convergence of intuition, cultural imprint, and raw instinct, calling for integration rather than domination by one mode of thought."
~ This Jungian Life podcast 07 Nov '24 ~
Reposted by Peter Lowis
Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. Author unknown
December 26, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. Author unknown
“Curiousity and courage become essential virtues for life at the deep end. For there is nowhere else from which to understand than from the middle of the muddle of it all.”
~ James Costello 2025
Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy ~
essential reading for 2025
~ James Costello 2025
Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy ~
essential reading for 2025
December 25, 2024 at 1:06 PM
“Curiousity and courage become essential virtues for life at the deep end. For there is nowhere else from which to understand than from the middle of the muddle of it all.”
~ James Costello 2025
Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy ~
essential reading for 2025
~ James Costello 2025
Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy ~
essential reading for 2025
“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity... Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
~ Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity ~
~ Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity ~
November 24, 2024 at 3:27 PM
“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity... Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
~ Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity ~
~ Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity ~
Reposted by Peter Lowis
There seem to be two qualifications for high office under Trump:
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
November 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
There seem to be two qualifications for high office under Trump:
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
"Modestly remember what the human animal is: a largely demented, broken, agitated, blind, deluded and barely evolved primate. We are, each one of us, and with nothing derogatory being meant by the term, really rather mad.
The School of Life (2021): Stay or Leave (p. 9)
The School of Life (2021): Stay or Leave (p. 9)
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
"Modestly remember what the human animal is: a largely demented, broken, agitated, blind, deluded and barely evolved primate. We are, each one of us, and with nothing derogatory being meant by the term, really rather mad.
The School of Life (2021): Stay or Leave (p. 9)
The School of Life (2021): Stay or Leave (p. 9)
Perception is... embodied sensory experience; we cannot extricate the perceived world from how our bodies perceive it.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1962 ~
a helpful counter to Descartes, I'd say
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1962 ~
a helpful counter to Descartes, I'd say
November 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Perception is... embodied sensory experience; we cannot extricate the perceived world from how our bodies perceive it.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1962 ~
a helpful counter to Descartes, I'd say
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1962 ~
a helpful counter to Descartes, I'd say
“The social determinants of care (e.g. community, education, air quality) account for up to 80% of health outcomes… realities that are neatly erased from most ‘wellness’ marketing.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2023/nov/01/wellness-industry-healthcare-women-stress?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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November 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM
“The social determinants of care (e.g. community, education, air quality) account for up to 80% of health outcomes… realities that are neatly erased from most ‘wellness’ marketing.”
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“The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.”
~ Arne Naess ~
~ Arne Naess ~
November 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
“The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.”
~ Arne Naess ~
~ Arne Naess ~
Hexagram 47: Oppression (Exhaustion) I Ching
“One has the necessities of life, but one is exhausted by its commonplaces. This is inner oppression.”
The I Ching is said to be the world’s oldest book > 5,000 years. Yet how well it seems to speak to Western malaise today.
“One has the necessities of life, but one is exhausted by its commonplaces. This is inner oppression.”
The I Ching is said to be the world’s oldest book > 5,000 years. Yet how well it seems to speak to Western malaise today.
November 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Hexagram 47: Oppression (Exhaustion) I Ching
“One has the necessities of life, but one is exhausted by its commonplaces. This is inner oppression.”
The I Ching is said to be the world’s oldest book > 5,000 years. Yet how well it seems to speak to Western malaise today.
“One has the necessities of life, but one is exhausted by its commonplaces. This is inner oppression.”
The I Ching is said to be the world’s oldest book > 5,000 years. Yet how well it seems to speak to Western malaise today.
‘There is no pot of gold at the end of the road of the psychotherapy of trauma. Under the best of conditions, what one does find there is a release from captivity, an increased wholeness, and also an abiding sense of sadness.'
~ George Atwood 2012:118 ~
~ George Atwood 2012:118 ~
November 16, 2024 at 2:23 PM
‘There is no pot of gold at the end of the road of the psychotherapy of trauma. Under the best of conditions, what one does find there is a release from captivity, an increased wholeness, and also an abiding sense of sadness.'
~ George Atwood 2012:118 ~
~ George Atwood 2012:118 ~
“Unless the therapist is willing to bring her authentic self into the room, the patient may end up being analysed but never found.“
~ Martha Stark (2000: xxii) ~
~ Martha Stark (2000: xxii) ~
November 16, 2024 at 2:21 PM
“Unless the therapist is willing to bring her authentic self into the room, the patient may end up being analysed but never found.“
~ Martha Stark (2000: xxii) ~
~ Martha Stark (2000: xxii) ~
What matters most in a relationship?
Kindness, care, honesty, respect; but most of all the choice of a suitable partner to begin with?
Kindness, care, honesty, respect; but most of all the choice of a suitable partner to begin with?
November 16, 2024 at 2:18 PM
What matters most in a relationship?
Kindness, care, honesty, respect; but most of all the choice of a suitable partner to begin with?
Kindness, care, honesty, respect; but most of all the choice of a suitable partner to begin with?
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books—setting out in 500 pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes.”
~ Jorge Luis Borges (2000) Fictions ~
~ Jorge Luis Borges (2000) Fictions ~
November 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books—setting out in 500 pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes.”
~ Jorge Luis Borges (2000) Fictions ~
~ Jorge Luis Borges (2000) Fictions ~
“With or without a wedding ceremony, true marriage is seldom achieved without radical conversation. Only radical conversation, the full sharing of what it is like to be me while hearing what it is really like to be you, can fulfil the promise of an intimate relationship.”
~ J.Hollis (1993): 61
~ J.Hollis (1993): 61
October 22, 2024 at 7:46 AM
“With or without a wedding ceremony, true marriage is seldom achieved without radical conversation. Only radical conversation, the full sharing of what it is like to be me while hearing what it is really like to be you, can fulfil the promise of an intimate relationship.”
~ J.Hollis (1993): 61
~ J.Hollis (1993): 61