Dr Matthew W Roberts

The Household On The Hill Goes To Therapy: Rebuilding Our Trust In Politics “I’m a psychotherapist. Trust problems are my thing. People in my practice get better as they rebuild trust: in their minds and bodies, in their relationships, in their households. The househ…

Therapists rebuild trust for a living. Here’s how what we do could work for rebuilding trust in those dysfunctional houses on the hill. I would love to hear your thoughts.
#auspol #ausvotes #election

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Wow, that’s a gift indeed. Youth media literacy is as vital to this world’s future as vaccines and actual democracy. Thanks.

Dozens of Engaging Ways to Make Media Literacy Meaningful to Teenagers (Gift Article) This collection of interactive exercises uses Times resources to help young people find the news that matters to them, understand how it’s made, connect it to their lives — and make media of their own...

Yo teachers - gift link to media literacy resources to use with teens.

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Lions – A Short Story “Some texts seem to know when to arrive.  The first time I read it, outside the meerkats, I went to scroll back to try and read it again and dropped the phone. And kicked the phone. And then …

A #shortstory about phone addiction, parenting, neurodivergence, thunderstorms and codeine. And lions. Draft form, feedback most welcome thenormalgrownup.com/2025/03/26/l...

My response as a therapist to the Serenity Prayer, assisted by reading Nancy McWilliams’ book chapter Psychological Vital Signs #psychiatrying

I Won’t Leave You 2025 YouTube video by Mount Disappointment Light Opera Company

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Things life and work are teaching me #psychiatrying

Here in Busselton WA for Radiance Network’s symposium, presenting my #patritherapeutic talk about healing after #patriarchy. Only so many ripples I can make in my life, but the net of sun plays on the sand below the surface. #psychiatrying

Ravens’ Wake - acoustic demo 30.12.2024 YouTube video by Mount Disappointment Light Opera Company

In the lockdowns I had a little e-band called Mount Disappointment Light Opera Co. Then the song genie left. I thought it was gone for good. But then I saw two dead ravens in a funeral parlour carpark with 20 in the trees above cawing their heads off. And so, a song.

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Only one of these 20th Century Italian design masterpieces is not a seat. Great expo, on at Heide Melb AU alongside brilliant bleak Albert Tucker grotesques. Do those first, it’s like THE 20TH CENTURY WAS AWFUL then go down the ramp and it’s like YES BUT ALSO (peering over top of sunnies) CIAAAAO

28.12.2024.2148h Bummer of a Birthmark Hal YouTube video by j4zzd0c

The closest I get to Nick Cave is by angling the camera to make my forehead look large and wise. The fairy lights added a certain something to my Keith Jarrett noodlings #j4zzd0c #improvmental #therapiano #music #piano #musictherapy

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One of the reasons I switched from flute to saxophone. Shhh. Flutes were cheap and Mum wasn’t sure I was going to practice.

23.12.24ii
Last night’s a lovely blur
My phone remembers dancing
Just as I recall

#haikotherapy

23.12.24
Such a good night out
The angels in my camera roll
Keep secrets from me

#haikotherapy

Why Scrooge Is The Santa I Still Believe In. “After two decades as a therapist I can believe in a man who wakes up to himself on Christmas Day and every day after.”

Hope for humans in 800 words on how therapy works, smuggled inside a cracker of a tale by Dickens

#psychiatrying #christmas #achristmascarol

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22.12.24
So long I’ve watched you
In just one more rainless week
We could meet at last

#haikotherapy

21.12.24iii
Kitchen sink rainbow
Through cut glass, cutlery rack
The dishes can wait

#haikotherapy

21.12.24ii
Such southwest sunlight
Surprised the kitchen tinsel
Got splashed everywhere

#haikotherapy

21.12.24
Dawn, summer solstice
Sun of gods and monster’s leaf
Such delicious light

#haikotherapy

Short Story: After The Catacombs “For a beautiful French person you have just met in Paris to think you are funny is very nice. But I’m not funny at the best of times, and this was not the best of times at all for me. …

Like most fiction, this short story is full of facts. Catacombs are weird. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is even huger in original piano form than Ravel’s orchestral arrangement, somehow. And…brief encounters can change your life.

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15.12.24
Camp by me said Gum
I swear I won’t drop a limb
Not tonight my loves

#haikotherapy

14.12.24iii
Venus is a smile
So bright we only see a star
Twinkleless at dusk

#haikotherapy

14.12.24ii
Moon, tree, Jupiter
All quite close from where I stand
Could have got messy

#haikotherapy

14.12.24
This is not a tree
Just its ghost that like the bugs
Won’t break the surface

#haikotherapy

6.12.24
Your galaxy brain
Trillions of synapses
Agree about wine

#haikotherapy

5.12.24
The same old new moon
We kids spurned for cathode rays
Via coat hanger

#haikotherapy

4.12.24iii
My ugly daisy
Ageing and bitten yet still
Loving sun and rain

#haikotherapy

30.11.24
Metres from tarmac
Seashells greet the rising tide
Like time’s not a thing

#haikotherapy

4.12.24
Pig-headed gum tree
Blown down flat but won’t say die
Shoots straight from the foot

#haikotherapy

This makes me so happy.