Differentiation in the Hobbit

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Ben: I just want to speak to differentiation for a minute friends at home if you're not a therapy nerd welcome. Ben there's a book that I'm gonna recommend to you that's literally about individuation in the Hobbit oh if you haven't read it yeah. Sam is very enmeshed with Shire Life and he's very resistant to change Shire Life so he really has to get pulled out of his comfort zone to be able to figure out who he is as more than a gardener even though that is an aspect of him. He's becoming all these different identities and all these different aspects of himself but retaining his love of potatoes.

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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