Hope Bastine
@hopebastine.com
Champion of the Outsider, Listener to the Survivor! Loving slave to 🐶
@marlabastine.bsky.social
🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist
📕Set Me Free (02/07/26)
🎬Children of the Cult docuseries
🎓 SGA personality development
Rep’d: @sileloquies.bsky.social
@marlabastine.bsky.social
🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist
📕Set Me Free (02/07/26)
🎬Children of the Cult docuseries
🎓 SGA personality development
Rep’d: @sileloquies.bsky.social
What a magnificent edition of @writersmosaic.bsky.social this quarter
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What a magnificent edition of @writersmosaic.bsky.social this quarter
The opening lines from Arundhati Roy’s memoir… devastatingly beautiful.
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The opening lines from Arundhati Roy’s memoir… devastatingly beautiful.
My first client introduced me to Grosz. Now, on the cusp of change again, here he is marking my life in new and unexpected ways,‘the way one looks at things in the distance.’ It’s a weekend of self-nurturance (the kind of self-care a bubble bath won’t do), & Grosz is a warm hug on a chilly day.
September 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My first client introduced me to Grosz. Now, on the cusp of change again, here he is marking my life in new and unexpected ways,‘the way one looks at things in the distance.’ It’s a weekend of self-nurturance (the kind of self-care a bubble bath won’t do), & Grosz is a warm hug on a chilly day.
‘I wondered if after all he might pass through the world as he was, rather than we feared he might needed to be.’ ~ Katie Kitamura, Audition (not here yet but perhaps we can persuade her). So love it very much.
August 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
‘I wondered if after all he might pass through the world as he was, rather than we feared he might needed to be.’ ~ Katie Kitamura, Audition (not here yet but perhaps we can persuade her). So love it very much.
Confession from a sleep psychologist: I used to secretly envy anyone who could nap.
After trauma, even closing my eyes felt dangerous.
What changed?
I stopped chasing sleep and started addressing why my body resisted rest.
After trauma, even closing my eyes felt dangerous.
What changed?
I stopped chasing sleep and started addressing why my body resisted rest.
July 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Confession from a sleep psychologist: I used to secretly envy anyone who could nap.
After trauma, even closing my eyes felt dangerous.
What changed?
I stopped chasing sleep and started addressing why my body resisted rest.
After trauma, even closing my eyes felt dangerous.
What changed?
I stopped chasing sleep and started addressing why my body resisted rest.
While I was sipping a lovely glass of Malbec and reading @catherinelacey.bsky.social new hybrid memoir in a wine bar this evening, it occurred to me that passersby would have thought how stupid I was to be reading a book upside-down. 🤔 Then, I didn't care because its such a damn great book 👏
June 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
While I was sipping a lovely glass of Malbec and reading @catherinelacey.bsky.social new hybrid memoir in a wine bar this evening, it occurred to me that passersby would have thought how stupid I was to be reading a book upside-down. 🤔 Then, I didn't care because its such a damn great book 👏
There’s a quote in this book that enrages me so much: ‘the accusations against her abuser defies logic!’ This is what’s wrong. Abusers lack empathy for humanity. Of course that defies logic! That so-called experts and rescuers of child suffering don’t see that is illogical.
June 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There’s a quote in this book that enrages me so much: ‘the accusations against her abuser defies logic!’ This is what’s wrong. Abusers lack empathy for humanity. Of course that defies logic! That so-called experts and rescuers of child suffering don’t see that is illogical.
In the research stage of planning my first book, I’ve discovered many wonderful books that explore an aspect of my experience but never all—a bit like my therapy experience. This one, #booksky is in my top ten:
May 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
In the research stage of planning my first book, I’ve discovered many wonderful books that explore an aspect of my experience but never all—a bit like my therapy experience. This one, #booksky is in my top ten:
There’s definitely a theme here:
May 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There’s definitely a theme here:
Our new lord and saviour
April 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Our new lord and saviour
Reading Joan Didion’s Notes on John feels like stepping into a sacred, private grief - an aching paradox of bearing witness to pain we were never meant to see.
April 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reading Joan Didion’s Notes on John feels like stepping into a sacred, private grief - an aching paradox of bearing witness to pain we were never meant to see.
Triggered by a loaded word? You’re not alone.
I avoided Mary Oliver’s ‘Devotions’ for years—the title echoed #cult roots. But neuroplasticity+ #mindfulness let me rewrite the script:
I avoided Mary Oliver’s ‘Devotions’ for years—the title echoed #cult roots. But neuroplasticity+ #mindfulness let me rewrite the script:
April 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Triggered by a loaded word? You’re not alone.
I avoided Mary Oliver’s ‘Devotions’ for years—the title echoed #cult roots. But neuroplasticity+ #mindfulness let me rewrite the script:
I avoided Mary Oliver’s ‘Devotions’ for years—the title echoed #cult roots. But neuroplasticity+ #mindfulness let me rewrite the script:
PSA: The em dash isn’t the ‘ChatGPT dash’—it’s OURS. 📚 Authors wielded it for ages. Influencers need a reading challenge—here’s a freebie: crack open any book. See? Still our dash. 🤷🏽♀️ #EmDashEra #AuthorsUnited #ReadABookChallenge
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
PSA: The em dash isn’t the ‘ChatGPT dash’—it’s OURS. 📚 Authors wielded it for ages. Influencers need a reading challenge—here’s a freebie: crack open any book. See? Still our dash. 🤷🏽♀️ #EmDashEra #AuthorsUnited #ReadABookChallenge
This is how abusers win in a patriarchy that upholds them. Another way of forcing us to ‘toe the line’. This is why victims don't speak out. The fear is real. The shame of being treated like this is greater than the shame we are left to bear after such abuse, because it becomes two-fold.
April 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is how abusers win in a patriarchy that upholds them. Another way of forcing us to ‘toe the line’. This is why victims don't speak out. The fear is real. The shame of being treated like this is greater than the shame we are left to bear after such abuse, because it becomes two-fold.
Puppy and I went hiking in the highlands ans came across this Overlook Hotel look-alike. Suddenly, I was worried I hadn't packed enough to survive a fallout. Despite my best plans I did no work, just played and played.
April 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Puppy and I went hiking in the highlands ans came across this Overlook Hotel look-alike. Suddenly, I was worried I hadn't packed enough to survive a fallout. Despite my best plans I did no work, just played and played.
My recently added to my book TBR list. Top of the pile!!!
April 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
My recently added to my book TBR list. Top of the pile!!!
This is tyranny and we’re gonna need more protests
April 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is tyranny and we’re gonna need more protests
The Insult by Rupert Thomson. One of my favourite authors - so underrated. The Insult was listed in David Bowie's top 100 reads. (doggie warming my feet is an added bonus)
April 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Insult by Rupert Thomson. One of my favourite authors - so underrated. The Insult was listed in David Bowie's top 100 reads. (doggie warming my feet is an added bonus)
‘A woman is the entire universe, has the whole world in her, in her womb: the sun and the seasons, and the sky that spans the fields and cities...’
~ Alba De Céspedes
#Booksky
~ Alba De Céspedes
#Booksky
March 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
‘A woman is the entire universe, has the whole world in her, in her womb: the sun and the seasons, and the sky that spans the fields and cities...’
~ Alba De Céspedes
#Booksky
~ Alba De Céspedes
#Booksky