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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart
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💔 A welcoming space to bring any hurt, with 100+ years of psychodrama wisdom.
🔥 In-person in LA & nationwide — & virtual.
✨ Expect connection, movement, laughter. Speak, be silent, witness, or join — always at your pace.
🌊 caligrief.com/catharsis-theater
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“Speak weirdness to truth.” When the compass spins, that is the doorway. Rao’s essay names the aporia where thinking and feeling both glitch, inviting a fuller reboot of mind and heart.

Read here: www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/22/s...

@vgr.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🌍 The body as mediator
Merleau-Ponty reminds us that we do not just “have” bodies. We are lived bodies — breathing, pulsing, perceiving. In an age of screens, this wisdom is more urgent than ever.

🔗 aeon.co/essays/the-p...

@dannixon.bsky.social
@aeon.co
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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📚 Austria: once the fulcrum of empires, now a republic with echoes of Habsburg courts & café philosophers. Nicholas Parsons traces the books that reveal its power, fragility, & enduring spirit.

👉 fivebooks.com/best-books/a...

#Austria #History #Books

@fivebooks.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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In Vienna after WWI, J.L. Moreno watched children act out myths and stories.

From their play, he saw a truth: we heal not only by talking but by showing, moving, embodying. Thus was born psychodrama, a stage for self-discovery.
🔗 www.nytimes.com/1974/05/16/a...

#Bluesky #Grief #Hope #We
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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WWII did not just scar bodies. It shattered minds. By 1945, 10,000 veterans a month returned with psychoneurotic disorders. With too few psychiatrists, group therapy became a lifeline. Out of necessity, the seeds of psychodrama and sociometry were planted.
August 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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🪨 What holds us together?
From Berkeley in 1712 to Hamilton in 1787 to Davies in 1811, thinkers searched for the cement of society.
Some said law, others charity, love, trust, even small talk.
A map of human nature — and a mirror for our times.
🔗 branemrys.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-...
August 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The CDC’s youth risk page now says “gender ideology is… disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes” and calls transition care “chemical and surgical mutilation.”

Politics that put youth at greater suicide risk.
www.cdc.gov/yrbs/

#SuicidePrevention #PublicHealth
August 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
🎭 Tomorrow — Virtual Catharsis Theater

A safe space to share, witness, and release grief — through stories, connection, and presence.

🗓 Sat, Aug 9 | 1–2:45 PM PT | Online
21+ | All grief welcome.

🎟 www.eventbrite.com/e/catharsis-...

#Grief #Healing #Loss #Hope #Connection #Bluesky #Love
August 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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🌙🧠 Sleeplessness is no longer quirky—it’s a national crisis.
Advice like “try harder” only deepens the pain.
What if healing begins not with control, but with connection?
🔗 archive.is/yaDBN

@jennifersenior.bsky.social
@armandoveve.bsky.social
@theatlantic.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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🌍 Everything good came from this.
Zerka Moreno took a wild, brilliant vision of healing and made it human.
Thanks to her, psychodrama, sociometry, and sociodrama left the lab and entered real life—schools, grief circles, theaters, and hearts.
🌀
#ZerkaMoreno
July 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🎭 Tomorrow in Los Angeles
A stage. No script. No actors.
Only you—and your story.

🌀 Catharsis Theater for Grief & Loss
An invitation to the raw, real, and rewritten.

🌍 RSVP: catharsistheater-losangeles-july26.eventbrite.com

#CatharsisTheater #Healing #Bluesky
July 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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🎭 Aristotle saw theater not as escape, but emotional hygiene. Tragedy helped people clean the inside.

You watched a king fall—and left lighter. Not because your pain vanished, but because it was seen.

Catharsis lets us share what’s too heavy alone.

#Aristotle #catharsis #Bluesky #theater
July 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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🌀 Katharsis: a word with dust on its feet.
Born in Greek theater, where actors wept so others didn’t have to. It meant cleansing—not of sin, but of stuckness.

We don’t cry because we’re weak—we cry to stay alive.

#catharsis #Bluesky #healing #grief #history
July 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🔍 What if science tells the truth… through lies we agree to believe?

Roman Frigg’s Fiction in Science shows how imagination isn’t a betrayal — it’s one of science’s oldest tools. Models work like stories: they reveal by pretending.

🧠 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/20936/1/fict...

#Bluesky #Hope
July 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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💫 Catharsis Theater: Tending Grief, Rekindling Life
Not therapy. Not performance. Just space to feel, create, and connect.
🗓️ Sat 7/26 | 1–4:30 PM
📍 Culver City | 🎟️ Tiered pricing | 40 spots

🔗 catharsistheater-losangeles-july26.eventbrite.com

#GriefSupport #LosAngeles #HealingSpace #Bluesky #Love
July 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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🌊 Did you know we know more about space than our own ocean?
NPR's Sea Camp dives into the five ocean zones, from sunlight to shadow.
What we don't see may hold the secrets to life, healing, and human nature.
🔗 www.npr.org/2025/07/21/g...

#OceanMystery #SeaCamp #Bluesky #Life

@npr.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
More élan, not more Elon.

Not algorithms—aliveness.
Not conquest—connection.
Not colonization—soul.

Élan: the human spark.
It heals. It transforms.
It’s what we need.

#ElanNotElon #CatharsisTheater #Grief #Healing #Psychodrama #SoulOverSilicon
July 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
— Pablo Picasso
#Bluesky #PabloPicasso #ArtMystery #ColorsSing #CreativeMagic #BeyondExplanation #ArtisticWonder #VisualPoetry #PaintingSoul #BeautyUnspoken #ArtIsFeeling
July 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
(1/5) 🎭 Role reversal
In psychodrama, stepping into another’s shoes isn’t a metaphor — it’s the beating heart of the work.
J.L. Moreno, the founder, saw it spark healing again & again: in Vienna parks, on WWI battlefields, on Broadway stages.
#Psychodrama #Bluesky #JLMoreno #ZerkaMoreno #Catharsis
July 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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✨ Tele — coined by J.L. Moreno, father of group therapy, psychodrama, sociometry & “sociatry” (healing society). Freud had case conferences; Moreno brought groups to life. Tele is deeper than empathy — a force like gravity, old & mutual, binding us unseen.
#Bluesky #Psychodrama #Tele #ShowMe
July 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This is what saves us. Whether on stage or in a circle of chairs, we loosen what’s lodged. We become less alone. And in the telling & showing, something new becomes possible. That’s the heart of Catharsis Theater. 💔✨
#Catharsis #Theater #Healing #Grief #Community #Bluesky
July 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Why does it matter? Because we’re meaning-seeking creatures. When we act out or witness raw human truth, we reconnect to ourselves (what Moreno called “spontaneity”), to each other, to the wild thrum of being alive.
#Meaning #Life #Connection #Theater #Humanity #Healing
July 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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There are many types of catharsis. Moreno spoke of abreaction (emotional release), integration (new insight), & role reversal (seeing through another’s eyes). Telling a secret. Weeping at a play. It’s not just drama — it’s humanity’s oldest medicine.
#Catharsis #Grief #Psychodrama #Healing #Art
July 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM