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S2E10 Read Hitchhikers!

Do you have a book that you return to over and over again? What is it about that story? Is it getting lost in it that helps, or does it contain some wisdom, some clue that helps you makes sense of a chaotic world.

In my early teens and twenties, that book for me was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I lost touch with it for a couple of decades, though I’m reply sure there was always a copy on one of my bookshelves. Then, it came back to me at a most unexpected moment. But would it stand the test of time?

Featured Poems: Read Hitchhiker’s! and Anyone Could Be Arthur, from the collection This is Not Therapy

REFERENCES

Douglas Adams 

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

GIGS

10th -12th July This Is Not Therapy at Buxton Fringe

15th July Carnworth Fringe at Royal Station Hotel

16th Morecambe Fringe This is Not Therapy at West End Playhouse

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S2E9 Till Debt Us Do Part

Money and debt can be triggering at the best of times but during a cost of living crisis? Let’s not even go there. But maybe we should. Maybe it’s time to look those fears in the face, or at least peak between our fingers at them. In 2016, I wrote a show called Till Debt Us Do Part. Now I return to that show, to see if anything in it can calm my current brain weasels.

(P.S. make sure you listen until after the credits because Neil has left the best Easter Egg of outtakes ever.)

Featured Poem:Two Dresses , from the collection Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful

Excerpts from Till Debt Us Do Part, recorded live at the Wantage Literary Festival, 2016.

GIGS

25th June Drafting Table (Oxford Poetry Library) at Gulp Fiction /

10th -12th July This Is Not Therapy at Buxton Fringe

15th July Carnworth Fringe at Royal Station Hotel

16th Morecambe Fringe at West End Playhouse

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S2E8 Memo to Mothers (and Those Who Are Not)

Whether you are blessed with child-bearing organs or not, I bet at some point in your life you tussled with yourself about whether to have children. I know I spent most of my twenties trying to avoid having children and then when the countdown to closing of that door began, I spent an inordinate amount of time and tears, trying to come to a definitive decision. Now I’m in my fifties, that door is bolted shut, so here are some stories about being the other side of that decision, and what that means to me about being a ‘woman’.

Featured Poems: Memo to Mothers, and Memo to Those Who Are Not Mothers, from the collection This is Not Therapy

GIGS

25th June Drafting Table (Oxford Poetry Library) at Gulp Fiction 

10th -12th July This Is Not Therapy at Buxton Fringe

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S2E7 Rest: The One that Got Away

Ever find yourself saying, ‘I’ll just get that job done and then I’ll have a sit down,’ only to move onto the next task, having possibly put some water in the kettle, but never having made that cup of tea?

No? Just me then.

Seriously though, how easy do you find it to take a genuine day off,  without worrying about that you have coming up next? If you are like me, you might make a right song and dance (or possibly even a show) about it.

Featured poem: New Year’s Eve, 2019.

REFERENCES

Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/why-we-sleep-the-new-science-of-sleep-and-dreams-matthew-walker/1371280?ean=9780141983769

https://www.sleepdiplomat.com/ 

Rob Bell/ Menuha https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wmx5c-9729b1

David Whyte tells this story of his conversation with Brother David Stendhal Rast that led up to this quote in many of his recordings but you can also find it in Crossing the Unknown Sea  page 128-135, available from https://davidwhyte.com/

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S2E6 Hello Failure, My Old Friend 

In a world obsessed with success, Tina makes friends with disappointment, setbacks and the F-word.

Featured Poem: Failure, You Make Me Interesting , from the collection Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful

REFERENCES

Fat Boy Slim  https://www.fatboyslim.net/  

‘Praise you’ 

(You should definitely watch this if you want to cry with happiness.)

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S2E5 Snow Leopardess and Me

Have you ever broken something you loved? Or been broken by it? My first love was horses, and yet by the age of 30, all the joy had gone out of the relationship, and I thought I could never get it back. I was wrong about that. Listen on to find out about the extraordinary set of circumstances that brought me back to my love of horses.

REFERENCES

 https://www.charlielongsdonracing.com/ 

Snow Leopardess winning the Becher chase in 2021 

UPCOMING GIGS

Tuesday 11th April, Scribal Gathering, Stony Stratford

Wednesday 19th April, This is Not Therapy and Door-Door-Poetry at Old Fire Station Oxford.

https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/this-is-not-therapy-door-to-door-poetry-nationwide/

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How do you integrate lifechanging moments back into your everyday world? In fact, how do you return from anything? Tina goes on an unexpected pilgrimage with surprising results.

Featured Poems: Revelation, from the collection This is Not Therapy

REFERENCES

Hotel des Arts https://www.arts-hotel-paris.com/

Rob Bell  https://robbell.com/

Monet's Waterlilies (image) https://parisresidencesjamesjoyce.com/2020/09/10/claude-monet-and-his-water-lilies/

GIGS

Wednesday 19th April, This is Not Therapy and Door-Door-Poetry at Old Fire Station Oxford.

https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/this-is-not-therapy-door-to-door-poetry-nationwide/

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S2E3 Miss Coneybeare-Cross’s Composition Competition 

Why is it, that when you find something you want to do - write a book ,get a new job, get fit etc -  your mind instantly comes up with all the reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t? In this week’s episode Tina tells the story of an early brush with resistance and reveals several ways she’s found to dissolve her resistance…well, to just about anything.

Featured Poem: I Will Not Make Great Art Today, from the collection Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful

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REFERENCES

The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron

GIGS

Thursday 2nd March, Fire and Dust (+ pre-show workshop), Cafe Morso, Coventry. Free entry. 

Wednesday 19th April, This is Not Therapy and Door-to-Door Poetry:Nationwide at Old Fire Station Oxford.

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S2 E2. Nellie’s Perfect Nuggets

It’s all very well finding the marvellous in mundane yet pleasant things, but what about finding the marvellous in icky things? Tina takes on the challenge in this episode, with the help of Nellie the dog, Liz Gilbert, and a strong dose of toilet humour.

Featured Poem: On Marriage, from the collection Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful

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GIGS

Thursday 2nd March, Fire and Dust (+ pre-show workshop), Cafe Morso, Coventry. Free entry. 

Wednesday 19th April, This is Not Therapy and Door-to-Door Poetry:Nationwide at Old Fire Station Oxford.

REFERENCES

Big Magic by Liz Gilbert

https://markmanson.net/

Brahma Kumaris 

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Welcome back to series 2 of This Is Not Therapy! In a change from our normal programming, today I interview Eleanor O’Brien, sex positive theatre maker and all round wonderful mensch. We talk about following wildly improbable dreams, making theatre with integrity that normalises pleasure and showing up with joyful vulnerability, and the peaks and pratfalls of performing at the Edinburgh Fringe.

So if you are contemplating a wildly outrageous goal of your own this year, or your are somewhere in the trenches, agonising on how you have got so off-course, you will find a lot to resonate with in this episode.

You can find Eleanor at https://www.dancenakedcreative.com/

On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DanceNaked

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dancenaked

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