It can be hard for people to reckon with this idea of like okay this person hurt me but I love them and there are these things I want to carry forward or this person is this beautiful shiny light in my life and they did some fucked up stuff. It also makes me think about how Samwise is so connected to being a gardener that that is something that's very positive for him. Without that the film would be would have ended the end like you know we would have got anything else and just I would have been caved with the ring the end exactlyactly like his uncle did.
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
Become a supporter of this podcast:
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/popcorn-psychology--3252280/support.