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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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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For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids.
Native American children significantly more likely to be arrested, detained in Washington
For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids.
www.kuow.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids.
How can anyone hope to find promises in a firehose of lies?
They don't.
They just tell their own lies about lying.
They don't.
They just tell their own lies about lying.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
How can anyone hope to find promises in a firehose of lies?
They don't.
They just tell their own lies about lying.
They don't.
They just tell their own lies about lying.
Be aware -
I watched it and enjoyed it and didn’t realize how the collective moral injury - that I’ve negotiated my way through and survived so far - of being extra vulnerable to compound viral injuries
Would leave me with painful scary mourning nightmares all night after.
Which can be good
I watched it and enjoyed it and didn’t realize how the collective moral injury - that I’ve negotiated my way through and survived so far - of being extra vulnerable to compound viral injuries
Would leave me with painful scary mourning nightmares all night after.
Which can be good
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Be aware -
I watched it and enjoyed it and didn’t realize how the collective moral injury - that I’ve negotiated my way through and survived so far - of being extra vulnerable to compound viral injuries
Would leave me with painful scary mourning nightmares all night after.
Which can be good
I watched it and enjoyed it and didn’t realize how the collective moral injury - that I’ve negotiated my way through and survived so far - of being extra vulnerable to compound viral injuries
Would leave me with painful scary mourning nightmares all night after.
Which can be good
Reposted by Martha Crawford
“In particular, parents of young children seem to avoid information about COVID-19…It’s more pleasant to be part of a group that says COVID is not dangerous - & psychologically more soothing-than it is to look more closely when people you love are on the line.”
#DutyOfCare
#LongCovid #LongCovidKids
#DutyOfCare
#LongCovid #LongCovidKids
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“In particular, parents of young children seem to avoid information about COVID-19…It’s more pleasant to be part of a group that says COVID is not dangerous - & psychologically more soothing-than it is to look more closely when people you love are on the line.”
#DutyOfCare
#LongCovid #LongCovidKids
#DutyOfCare
#LongCovid #LongCovidKids
My husband- working today out of our home office - has been hollering and hooting with his clients all day 💖
Good days when they come.
Good days when they come.
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My husband- working today out of our home office - has been hollering and hooting with his clients all day 💖
Good days when they come.
Good days when they come.
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This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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We're at the Roundhouse waiting for the special session to start. House Democrats, as pictured held a news conference mid-morning in advance of lawmakers getting to work. We'll have more later at sourcenm.com. Photo by Patrick Lohmann
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We're at the Roundhouse waiting for the special session to start. House Democrats, as pictured held a news conference mid-morning in advance of lawmakers getting to work. We'll have more later at sourcenm.com. Photo by Patrick Lohmann
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To be clear, folks who grew up in nature definitely get on a mystical nature kick but it sounds totally different. A forest isn't a place they associate with peaceful serenity, it is a place where life and death weave an invisible dance connecting everything past and present; powerful but dangerous.
You can always tell when folks who didn't grow up in nature are getting into a mystical nature kick because they talk about forests like they're these serene, perfect, peaceful places. No friend, nature is scary and tense as fuck and you're looking at a place where things live and die BY THE MINUTE.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
To be clear, folks who grew up in nature definitely get on a mystical nature kick but it sounds totally different. A forest isn't a place they associate with peaceful serenity, it is a place where life and death weave an invisible dance connecting everything past and present; powerful but dangerous.
Reposted by Martha Crawford
You can always tell when folks who didn't grow up in nature are getting into a mystical nature kick because they talk about forests like they're these serene, perfect, peaceful places. No friend, nature is scary and tense as fuck and you're looking at a place where things live and die BY THE MINUTE.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
You can always tell when folks who didn't grow up in nature are getting into a mystical nature kick because they talk about forests like they're these serene, perfect, peaceful places. No friend, nature is scary and tense as fuck and you're looking at a place where things live and die BY THE MINUTE.
Here is a local friendship I would like to find:
A fellow curious agnostic ecumenical panentheistic weirdo who would want to devise a long check list & attend a series of services/practices at all the various interesting, traditional, syncretic, & woo-woo houses of worship in Northern New Mexico
A fellow curious agnostic ecumenical panentheistic weirdo who would want to devise a long check list & attend a series of services/practices at all the various interesting, traditional, syncretic, & woo-woo houses of worship in Northern New Mexico
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Here is a local friendship I would like to find:
A fellow curious agnostic ecumenical panentheistic weirdo who would want to devise a long check list & attend a series of services/practices at all the various interesting, traditional, syncretic, & woo-woo houses of worship in Northern New Mexico
A fellow curious agnostic ecumenical panentheistic weirdo who would want to devise a long check list & attend a series of services/practices at all the various interesting, traditional, syncretic, & woo-woo houses of worship in Northern New Mexico
I feel like everything is uncertain, and am trying not to overrely on any single piece of online infrastructure
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November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I feel like everything is uncertain, and am trying not to overrely on any single piece of online infrastructure
If you want to be sure to keep in touch, learn about programs, discussions & workshops, read essays, hear a few musings now and then -
Please sign up for my free, in-house newsletter
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Please sign up for my free, in-house newsletter
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Anger tells you there is something precious that needs your protection.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Anger tells you there is something precious that needs your protection.
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frankly I think progressive spiritual/religious spaces should be particularly sensitive to reengaging all of those who have suffered clerical/spiritual abuse. Not just me.
I mean, it should be a primary reparative act, right?
I mean, it should be a primary reparative act, right?
An essay distilling some reading and a clarifying weekend return to the Center for Action and Contemplation after a few years.
thorns, marbles and precious gems and being friends with spirits.
Now with fewer typos.
thorns, marbles and precious gems and being friends with spirits.
Now with fewer typos.
A Guardian of the Soul
Martha Crawford — November 3, 2025
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
frankly I think progressive spiritual/religious spaces should be particularly sensitive to reengaging all of those who have suffered clerical/spiritual abuse. Not just me.
I mean, it should be a primary reparative act, right?
I mean, it should be a primary reparative act, right?
Reposted by Martha Crawford
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Reposted by Martha Crawford
It is really exhausting being this angry
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It is really exhausting being this angry
Reposted by Martha Crawford
The government sanctioned murders continue without evidence of a crime, without due process, without a trial
6 Dead in Weekend Strikes on Suspected Narco Boats in Eastern Pacific — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/11/10/6...
news.usni.org/2025/11/10/6...
6 Dead in Weekend Strikes on Suspected Narco Boats in Eastern Pacific - USNI News
U.S. forces struck two suspected narco boats Sunday in international waters in the Eastern Pacific, killing six people. The boats were allegedly transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit rout...
news.usni.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The government sanctioned murders continue without evidence of a crime, without due process, without a trial
These negotiations are “should we starve people?
Or let them die and become disabled from disease and treatable illness and lack of health care?
How should we destroy people?”
Or let them die and become disabled from disease and treatable illness and lack of health care?
How should we destroy people?”
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
These negotiations are “should we starve people?
Or let them die and become disabled from disease and treatable illness and lack of health care?
How should we destroy people?”
Or let them die and become disabled from disease and treatable illness and lack of health care?
How should we destroy people?”
Those who protect their hearts through unbearable moral injury just keep reaching a hand toward the most vulnerable, and the vulnerability in ourselves and each other -
through every up and down-
No collective event in any direction ever eradicates the work.
through every up and down-
No collective event in any direction ever eradicates the work.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Those who protect their hearts through unbearable moral injury just keep reaching a hand toward the most vulnerable, and the vulnerability in ourselves and each other -
through every up and down-
No collective event in any direction ever eradicates the work.
through every up and down-
No collective event in any direction ever eradicates the work.
Reposted by Martha Crawford
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
Cuomosim. Schumerism.
Ugh.
Ugh.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Cuomosim. Schumerism.
Ugh.
Ugh.
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One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
They really all listen to the pundits saying “this is not a realignment” over their actual constituents
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
They really all listen to the pundits saying “this is not a realignment” over their actual constituents
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Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.
I believe there is an optimum number of dryer balls, 2, maybe 3.
My husband believes there is no maximum.
My husband believes there is no maximum.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I believe there is an optimum number of dryer balls, 2, maybe 3.
My husband believes there is no maximum.
My husband believes there is no maximum.
I always need to philosophize, theologize, wrestle with who I mean to be in the face of my psychological sadism/sociopathy/evil - a continuous process
I don’t know how I would have ever been able to stand and speak up without that deep discernment.
I don’t know how I would have ever been able to stand and speak up without that deep discernment.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I always need to philosophize, theologize, wrestle with who I mean to be in the face of my psychological sadism/sociopathy/evil - a continuous process
I don’t know how I would have ever been able to stand and speak up without that deep discernment.
I don’t know how I would have ever been able to stand and speak up without that deep discernment.