HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

Beyond the Surface. 

The mind has a tendency to wish to catergorise and label in an effort to understand. Sometimes this can be a useful inclination providing clarity, and sometimes this inclination can be constrictive. Life and the spectrum of human experience cannot be destilled or reduced down into labels, in doing so we create a separation between thought and feeling, between knowledge and knowing. Labels can act as judgements, assumptions cast upon another or ourselves that can paralyse and isolate us in our actions, thoughts and beliefs. “It is a beautiful impulse — to contain the infinite in the finite, to wrest order from the chaos — but it is also a limiting one” writes Maria Popova in an article for the Marginalian.

Within life there can be so many labels and titles that we can come to acquire or seek. We can become defined by our gender, relationships, whether or not we are parents, or want to be, job titles, finanical status, each role associated with expectations and sterotypes. Underneath these roles, identities, appearances we are people. Constantly evolving. We are verbs, not nouns.

20. Jan. 2025.

References and Further Reading.

Rogers Carl, 1961 On Becoming a Person, A Therapists View of Psychotherapy.

Kim Verdedo.