Psychotherapist, writer, broadcaster, find me on substack. email: AskPhilippa@Yahoo.com
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Hi all, all my articles so far since I left the Guardian/Observer are in the link in the next tweet. I’d put the link in this tweet, but algorithms 😠. Many of them are free to read 🤓you can ignore the pay to read ones.
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This is behind a paywall so I’ve done you all a favour because @caitlinmoran has a brilliant idea that we all, well me anyway, need.
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Lady stopped me asking, was I from the telly? Yes! She then went into raptures about how I had been instrumental in getting people making things again and creativity is important, I was thrilled she understood what we try to do, then she said Sewing Bee is her favourite prog 1/2
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Rather disappointing evening. We thought we had some chocolate but it turned out to be a scented candle. It’s been taking up fridge space since Christmas too.
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Here’s an important message from a toddler to all parents who are attempting to do the impossible of working from home and facilitating their children’s school work at the same time.
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Maybe now we’re broke from Covid and Brexit we can quietly cancel HS2 because, we can’t afford it and we’ve learnt how to zoom.
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Overheard in Waitrose “ shall we buy a tin of performative biscuits, or some biscuits we actually want to eat?”
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Okay folks I think we have a contender for best shelves, it’s @simon_schama yes? Everyone else’s are too neat.
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Thank you so much for all your messages/tweets/replies to @alan_measles and me. So, so touched that #GraysonsArtClub meant so much to you, it did to us too. Loved your art, loved your stories. Thank you. Thank you. ❤️
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I’m not an educationalist but if kids don’t want to learn as their GCSEs won’t be happening does it not show a flaw in our education system? Is the way we teach at the moment crushing their curiosity and ambition rather than encouraging and feeding it?
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’d like to thank my parents, my husband, my agent, my cat, I never thought this day would come 🏆 my usual score is a mere 5. Good morning everyone.
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Q. “How can I get my socially awkward child to be more confident and outgoing?” A. Accept them as they are and where they are. We only make someone feel more socially inadequate if we don’t think they are good enough exactly where they are right now. Acceptance breeds confidence.
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In our culture I think too much emphasis is put on romantic relationships and not enough on friendship. I found this article celebrating friendship refreshing bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no… “Put yourself out and go and see your friend. Don't always wait for them to come and see you.”
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It’s my birthday. I’m 62. I don’t look a day over 55. I feel 100. Yes I did post this as 1000s of birthday greetings would cheer me up. 🎂 I’m now going to purchase a vacuum cleaner. Happy birthday to me la la la.
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Somebody clever, not me, decided there were 2 sorts of leaders. Baboons, who grab power for its own sake and for what they can personally get out of it and elephants, who lead for the benefit of the whole group.
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Incredibly proud of him. Grayson Perry wins prestigious Erasmus prize | Grayson Perry | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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I've been sitting on this bit of news for a while and I'm pleased and thrilled and everything in between about my new job. I hope you'll get The Observer Magazine and make use of me.
We are thrilled to introduce the Observer Magazine's brilliant new agony aunt @Philippa_Perry: psychotherapist, TV presenter and bestselling author. Philippa will answer your questions every week. Look out for her first column this Sunday. Out with the Observer newspaper
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I'm confused because when I ask anyone what their hobby or main non-work past time is, they never say playing with my phone and watching telly (my favourite things) but reading, or sport, or art, or baking, or walking. Surely I'm not the only one on screens for hours every day?
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Oh dear. I’ve upset a lot of people. I didn’t mean to. I’m not saying ADHD doesn’t exist, I’m saying it shouldn’t be an identity and it shouldn’t be self-diagnosed. We are more than our diagnoses - that’s what I’m trying to say.
i am honestly all out of words for the pain, anger and disappointment i feel at the media’s need to constantly invalidate and shit all over ADHDers. @thetimes @Philippa_Perry we are a group of disabled people that have been repeatedly let down and we deserve better!!!!!!
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“Remember that you are replaceable in your job. You are not replaceable as a wife, husband, father, mother, daughter, son, or friend. Put on your own oxygen mask first and give yourself and your colleagues permission to take the time you deserve to recover.” From article in BMJ
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Hello new educators, I think you are going to relish home schooling your amazing children. Here’s a bit of applied psychology that might help. Thread:
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It would be a lot simpler and maybe cheaper just to roll out basic universal income wouldn't it?
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What have you learnt about yourself in lockdown? I've realised that 1) I was just buying clothes because I was addicted to buying them 2) I used to take Pret a Manger completely for granted and 3) I like being with other people even if I don't know them all that well.
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Making mistakes even gross errors of judgement is something we’ve probably all done. It is important on these occasions to say, “My bad”. If we cannot be that flexible, we can never learn, develop or grow and we set a terrible example.
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#sewingbee I’m so copying Esme’s necklace. She nicked my barnet . It’s only fair.
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Someone has just told me that I don’t look like Esme from Sewing Bee but that I look like The Repair Shop. Not anyone on The Repair Shop, but the shop itself. I’m taking it as a compliment.
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If you want more Grayson’s Art Club, buy everything advertised in between the segments then they might recommission it. Thanks.
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What’s the point of frightening animals with fireworks at 8.00pm on a Thursday. Just stop. Polite clapping is one thing but this is aggressive.
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My main challenge during lockdown is to run out of shampoo and conditioner at the same time and replace both bottles at the same time. When I pull this feat off, life feels perfect. Ahhh.
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In my day such treasures would never be left on the ground. These were nature’s free toys. We’d play with them for hours. God it was boring. Glad children have got better things to do these days.
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Was talking to a friend who said they now had a “wellness facilitator” at their workplace but they don’t know what she’s like yet as she has been off sick.
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The news is continually giving us the message YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF FLU YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF FLU YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF FLU YOU ARE ALL GOING I don’t know how often we have to hear this for the public good but it isn’t great for anyone’s mental health.
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I love this so much ❤️
Many of you will remember the lovely Paul Green and his birds from the animal ep of Art Club.
Look what he sent me and @Philippa_Perry a lovely Mr Yaffle
Super Sweet man
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My inbox is stuffed with people trapped in miserable relationships: 1)Remember what attracts you at the beginning of a relationship will be the thing that repels you at the end 2)Don't have kids with someone you don't like 3)Fancying someone doesn't mean you should procreate
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One thing I hope carries on after lockdown is over is THE END OF SOCIAL KISSING forever.
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Victoria Sandwich Cake, or very runny lumpy custard!! When proof readers aren’t bakers! @thetimes in Saturday’s paper. If anyone made this they are going to very unhappy.
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Oh wow. Fabulous and full of ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hi Grayson, hand pencil portraits by our 15 year old son Jobe of his great grandma and grandad, captures their warmth, spirit and cheekiness :) #C4ArtClub #GraysonPerry #graysonsartclub
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I think if and when society is allowed to associate again we’ll find it over-stimulating, be out of practice and scurry back to hide behind our screens again after half an hour. I think we’d better meet up for no longer than 5 minutes at a time to start with and build up slowly.
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People (at least one person anyway) have asked for a close up of my bowl from last night. It’s not finished!! Still needs a tidy and a glaze. G & I haven’t finished a single thing on art club yet. By the time the exhibition arrives (no idea) we’ll have finished.
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When Kevin crashes through the cat flap so loudly he wakes me up, half of me is annoyed and the other half is overflowing with joy that he's decided to come home. Having a cat is like having a teenager.
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Last episode this series of #graysonsartclub tonight. Catch up on All4 if you’ve missed any. See you all at 8pm.
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Sorry about all the self indulgent tweeting/retweeting but I’ve spent 5 years sweating over a book and tonight in a pub in Wales loads of strangers bought me drinks and told me they loved the book and me, and it’s all gone to my head ☺️😭☺️🏴🏴🏴#thebookyouwishyourparentshadread
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I am missing meeting new people. I live in London because I like a steady diet of strangers as well as my friends. Some weeks I feel quite cosy and hunkered down and other weeks I want to be in the fray once more. How you doing? #lockdown
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Grayson has just said they should make a brand of alcohol called “I agree with you@. He’s now ranting about dishwasher stacking methods again. #lockdown #couplegoals
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Just catching up on Pottery Throw Down final and having a little cry. Worthy winner 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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This must be Esme’s revenge for been mistaken for me the other day when she bumped into Grayson in the street and a passer by mistook her for me. I wonder if she’s busy tomorrow because I’m supposed to be in two places at once? 2/2
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Here’s a pic of me and Esme Young. Esme has had an amazing life (so far) and she’s written a book about it. I’ve been stopped in the street to be applauded for Sewing Bee and she’s been asked about Grayson’s Art Club, so we’re quits. amazon.co.uk/Behind-Seams-Cr…
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Video calling is tiring coz of the delay of the spoken word and the gestures and expressions. They’re not simultaneous. So you have to listen to words and notice body language in two separate streams in your poor head. You also get distracted by your own face. Takes concentration
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People often ask me how to have “difficult” conversations with children about this or that issue. My reply is get in the habit of meaningful dialogue with children about what matters or what’s complicated all the time rather than saving up seriousness for “difficult” times.
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Grayson's Art Club review – a heartening, lockdown-era tonic theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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Woooo Hoooooo
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
#GraysonsArtClub returns in February!
Website graysonsartclub.com is open for your submissions.
Here is @Philippa_Perry and me telling you the weekly themes.
We are so looking forward to seein what you have made.
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When you are part of a group it’s normal to think the others are the group and you are on the outside of it. Everyone does this. But you ARE the group as much as anyone else. Take up your space. Share what you’re thinking, feeling. Don’t wait for an invitation #howtomakefriends
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A great reason to have a child was revealed to me tonight. I locked myself out and she lives but 2 miles from me, was in, and has a spare key. So glad we didn’t use contraception 27 years ago. 🙏other advantages too but this one is forefront right now.
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‘When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.’ ~ Mark Twain
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I’m watching #GraysonsArtClub on catch up. It’s really VERY good. I wince every time I’m on screen, apart from that, it’s EXCELLENT And my painting of surf on shore almost worked too. #All4
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Creating an Exhibition of Britain’s Lockdown Dreams nytimes.com/2020/05/22/arts/… WE’RE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!!
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When will I learn? Never put teeth in a portrait. Poor Grayson hasn’t come out too well on this. #GraysonsArtClub
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For happier relationships: Do appreciate Don’t gather evidence to fuel resentments Do acts of kindness Take complaints seriously rather than personally Make complaints with I-statements, not You-statements DON’T KEEP SCORE And never complain about their other parent to kids
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Everyone needs attention, whatever age they are. If a child automatically has enough attention and feels secure that attention is there when they need it, they don’t have to develop maladaptive, annoying ways to get it.
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Remember the names of that cabinet. You’ll need them for pub quizzes and Pointless. Especially Pointless.
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Cannot recommend Robert Galbraith’s Troubled Blood highly enough. It’s given me a whole week of entertainment and I never guessed WhoDidIt until it all unfolded very satisfyingly. Mmmmm.
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My book is now available in paperback: The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did. Sunday Times No 1 Best Seller List. amazon.co.uk/Book-Wish-Your-…
'Your child is not a project to perfect.' Psychotherapist Philippa Perry on what parents need to know: ft.com/content/574de956-3fa0…
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Difference between thoughts and thinking. You’ll have thousands of thoughts a day. Latching on to a thought becoming thinking, you fertilise it. So latch on to the good ones and let the others float by. It’s how you can begin to control anxiety.
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Could I love the pairing of @AlexScott and @clarebalding more? No I could not. Superb informative and ENTERTAINING coverage of #Olympics Thanks.
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Caught up on Sewing Bee Final. Best series EVAH. Having a nice cry. Well done @LoveProductions 👏👏👏👏@joelycett ❤️ Great Cast ❤️
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#graysonsartclub starring Kevin. Shooting right now. Will be with you Friday week Channel4 8pm.
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There’s no shame in changing your mind on something you thought was true. It should be applauded not ridiculed.
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Is it me? Or is 2021 a great year for blossom? And if it is a great year for blossom is that because it’s cold? Are these flowers holding on because they’re are enough insects yet? Or what?
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Took 20 takes for me to say “Well done Reece” the words kept sticking I my throat. #gbbo #su2c @ReeceShearsmith obvs love him reeeeally.
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Just seen the roughcut. Oh boy it’s a goodun. Maybe the best yet. Loadsa 😮😭😢 and 😂😂😂 and 🎨 🏺 🎥
Another cracking #GraysonsArtClub on Monday. The theme is Britain. Joining @Alan_Measles and @Philippa_Perry are Liza Tarbuck, Martin Parr, the Singh Twins and other surprise guests...
Monday 8pm @Channel4
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