"The only times i ever feel disappointed with sam which where he is just truly vilifying sneekel I feel like i want to come sneekel now because i have a little more affection for him and calling him gollum fills me in" "When you've gone through hard things in life like i'm going through that like he went through it has an impact on you the choices. He's not a bad person he's just had bad stuff happen to him and he's struggling and if we can give him some modicum of respect that he can make it out the other side," she says. 'You don't know what it's like to go through what he
Welcome back to the Tolkien-verse! We are diving back into the Lord of the Rings trilogy with The Two Towers. We are joined by Justine Mastin, therapist and author of Starship Therapise and The Grieving Therapist. We touch upon a variety of themes: grief and loss, ecological grief, individuation, Jung. We also discuss Internal Family Systems and how that is demonstrated via Gollum/Smeagol.
You can find Justine here:
website: justinemastin.com
social: @mindbodyfandom on fb, insta, and twitter
book: Starship Therapise: using therapeutic fanfiction to rewrite your life
book: The Grieving Therapist: caring for yourself and your clients when it feels like the end of the world
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