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    • About
    • Reflections
      • Overview
      • On the Personal
      • On the Clinical
      • On the Somatic
    • TheEmpathyProject
      • What is empathy?
      • What does it require?
      • What's empathy's history?
    • Workshops
    • Resources
      • Glossary
      • Further Reading
  • Home
  • About
  • Reflections
    • Overview
    • On the Personal
    • On the Clinical
    • On the Somatic
  • TheEmpathyProject
    • What is empathy?
    • What does it require?
    • What's empathy's history?
  • Workshops
  • Resources
    • Glossary
    • Further Reading

Overview of My Reflections

Most of my reflections stem from internal dialogue.

As a chronic overthinker, my reflections engage with a variety of topics - from the qualities of friendships to suggestions for improving clinical bed-side manner. 

In these reflections, you’ll often witness the ever-wrestling inner parts of me. The daughter, sister, roommate, and friend parts debate about relationship dynamics. The philosophy student urges the daughter to ask clearer questions. Where the therapist-in-training aims to be sensitive, the lab report writer reminds her to get to the point. Different voices dominate the conversation at different times. For the sake of organization, I divided these reflections into three different main categories: On the Personal, On the Clinical, and On the Somatic (detailed below). 

These reflections are not meant to provide answers as much as to introduce pathways for navigating explanations. I consider them my breadcrumbs for future conversations and ever-edited drafts of unfinished thoughts. Thank you for witnessing my thoughts! I can’t wait to hear what you have to say!

“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators and readers as well


Richard Kearney

Types of Reflections

On the Personal

daring to discuss the intersections between friendship, love, advice, and abuse. 

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On the Clinical

examining the space between patient and doctor, client and therapist.  

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On the Somatic

exploring the body as a mediator between internal and external worlds.

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Cheers to reflecting!

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