There's such profound grief with moving forward in your life you know from one stage of life to the next which is what we're seeing here too like they once were happy little hobbits and now they are part of their warriors in this huge battle that is so much bigger than them. Tolkien himself was a soldier in World War I in the trenches and most of his company did not return. We see that theme playing out with the ad in who's refusing to help Gondor and we see Pippen who just wants to go back to the Shire and pretend all this isn't happening.
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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