Dr Matthew W Roberts
@drmwroberts.bsky.social
Melb AU psychiatrist psychotherapist writer clinical teacher musician. Dad-bommies in the swimming pool of life, fully clad in the only suit that still fits me. www.mydoctorshandwriting.com www.thenormalgrownup.com #psychiatrying #j4zzd0c #haikotherapy
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I listen for a living. I write for a feeling. The daily stuff is on FB and LI under #psychiatrying and the best of that turns into blogs at www.mydoctorshandwriting.com
Therapists rebuild trust for a living. Here’s how what we do could work for rebuilding trust in those dysfunctional houses on the hill. I would love to hear your thoughts.
#auspol #ausvotes #election
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#auspol #ausvotes #election
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The Household On The Hill Goes To Therapy: Rebuilding Our Trust In Politics
“I’m a psychotherapist. Trust problems are my thing. People in my practice get better as they rebuild trust: in their minds and bodies, in their relationships, in their households. The househ…
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April 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Therapists rebuild trust for a living. Here’s how what we do could work for rebuilding trust in those dysfunctional houses on the hill. I would love to hear your thoughts.
#auspol #ausvotes #election
mydoctorshandwriting.com/2025/04/08/t...
#auspol #ausvotes #election
mydoctorshandwriting.com/2025/04/08/t...
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Yo teachers - gift link to media literacy resources to use with teens.
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Dozens of Engaging Ways to Make Media Literacy Meaningful to Teenagers (Gift Article)
This collection of interactive exercises uses Times resources to help young people find the news that matters to them, understand how it’s made, connect it to their lives — and make media of their own...
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March 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Yo teachers - gift link to media literacy resources to use with teens.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/l...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/l...
A #shortstory about phone addiction, parenting, neurodivergence, thunderstorms and codeine. And lions. Draft form, feedback most welcome thenormalgrownup.com/2025/03/26/l...
Lions – A Short Story
“Some texts seem to know when to arrive. The first time I read it, outside the meerkats, I went to scroll back to try and read it again and dropped the phone. And kicked the phone. And then …
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March 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A #shortstory about phone addiction, parenting, neurodivergence, thunderstorms and codeine. And lions. Draft form, feedback most welcome thenormalgrownup.com/2025/03/26/l...
My response as a therapist to the Serenity Prayer, assisted by reading Nancy McWilliams’ book chapter Psychological Vital Signs #psychiatrying
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
My response as a therapist to the Serenity Prayer, assisted by reading Nancy McWilliams’ book chapter Psychological Vital Signs #psychiatrying
Things life and work are teaching me #psychiatrying
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Things life and work are teaching me #psychiatrying
Here in Busselton WA for Radiance Network’s symposium, presenting my #patritherapeutic talk about healing after #patriarchy. Only so many ripples I can make in my life, but the net of sun plays on the sand below the surface. #psychiatrying
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Here in Busselton WA for Radiance Network’s symposium, presenting my #patritherapeutic talk about healing after #patriarchy. Only so many ripples I can make in my life, but the net of sun plays on the sand below the surface. #psychiatrying
In the lockdowns I had a little e-band called Mount Disappointment Light Opera Co. Then the song genie left. I thought it was gone for good. But then I saw two dead ravens in a funeral parlour carpark with 20 in the trees above cawing their heads off. And so, a song.
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Ravens’ Wake - acoustic demo 30.12.2024
YouTube video by Mount Disappointment Light Opera Company
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December 30, 2024 at 8:33 AM
In the lockdowns I had a little e-band called Mount Disappointment Light Opera Co. Then the song genie left. I thought it was gone for good. But then I saw two dead ravens in a funeral parlour carpark with 20 in the trees above cawing their heads off. And so, a song.
youtu.be/Yl5SgxMKeg4?...
youtu.be/Yl5SgxMKeg4?...
Only one of these 20th Century Italian design masterpieces is not a seat. Great expo, on at Heide Melb AU alongside brilliant bleak Albert Tucker grotesques. Do those first, it’s like THE 20TH CENTURY WAS AWFUL then go down the ramp and it’s like YES BUT ALSO (peering over top of sunnies) CIAAAAO
December 29, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Only one of these 20th Century Italian design masterpieces is not a seat. Great expo, on at Heide Melb AU alongside brilliant bleak Albert Tucker grotesques. Do those first, it’s like THE 20TH CENTURY WAS AWFUL then go down the ramp and it’s like YES BUT ALSO (peering over top of sunnies) CIAAAAO
The closest I get to Nick Cave is by angling the camera to make my forehead look large and wise. The fairy lights added a certain something to my Keith Jarrett noodlings #j4zzd0c #improvmental #therapiano #music #piano #musictherapy
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28.12.2024.2148h Bummer of a Birthmark Hal
YouTube video by j4zzd0c
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December 28, 2024 at 11:10 AM
The closest I get to Nick Cave is by angling the camera to make my forehead look large and wise. The fairy lights added a certain something to my Keith Jarrett noodlings #j4zzd0c #improvmental #therapiano #music #piano #musictherapy
youtu.be/PW9ma4Ue6_A?...
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Hope for humans in 800 words on how therapy works, smuggled inside a cracker of a tale by Dickens
#psychiatrying #christmas #achristmascarol
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#psychiatrying #christmas #achristmascarol
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Why Scrooge Is The Santa I Still Believe In.
“After two decades as a therapist I can believe in a man who wakes up to himself on Christmas Day and every day after.”
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December 22, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Hope for humans in 800 words on how therapy works, smuggled inside a cracker of a tale by Dickens
#psychiatrying #christmas #achristmascarol
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#psychiatrying #christmas #achristmascarol
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Like most fiction, this short story is full of facts. Catacombs are weird. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is even huger in original piano form than Ravel’s orchestral arrangement, somehow. And…brief encounters can change your life.
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Short Story: After The Catacombs
“For a beautiful French person you have just met in Paris to think you are funny is very nice. But I’m not funny at the best of times, and this was not the best of times at all for me. …
thenormalgrownup.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Like most fiction, this short story is full of facts. Catacombs are weird. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is even huger in original piano form than Ravel’s orchestral arrangement, somehow. And…brief encounters can change your life.
thenormalgrownup.com/2024/12/18/a...
thenormalgrownup.com/2024/12/18/a...
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