La Belette Rouge

Who are you? ( In five words or less)

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:30:41 +0000

You know that game, Psych professors and/or team building coaches assign it a lot, it’s a game where you have a piece of paper for each person in the group and everyone writes what they think of the others in the group. Mostly people use one word adjectives, words like ‘Funny’;'Kind’;and’Outgoing’. I remember playing this [...]

Stuff I miss

La Belette Rouge — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:49:40 +0000

1. My grandmother Today I want to go to her house and play Gin Rummy with her. I want to eat her potato salad and sit on her furniture. I want to smell her smells and hear her stories. 2. James Hillman There are days that I wake and I realize that James Hillman is [...]

Nobody’s Mommy

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:27:52 +0000

Lately “mom” stuff has been up for me. Obviously Mother’s Day, and all the ads and emails and reminders to fete the person responsible for birthing us, is bringing “Mom” and all things maternal to mind. However, I don’t know if I would be thinking so much about my non-mom status if it were just a [...]

How to cure nightmares( both a period and a question mark)

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:42:50 +0000

From the time I was ten until twenty-seven I had the same nightmare every single night. It was, I can tell you, a real nightmare. The nightmares were made worse when my parents’ physician prescribed sleeping pills to give my parents a good nights sleep. Yes, my parents’ physician gave me( a 10-year-old girl) sleeping [...]

It’s my Pi-day(a.k.a. birthday)

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:52:41 +0000

It’s Pi day(3.14), the full circle of my natal year in approximately one hour and 37 minutes. Today( or tomorrow, depending on when you read this) is the day that I usually spend reflecting on the year that was and deciding on the year that will be. I am strangely superstitious about numbers. Each year [...]

Intentions

La Belette Rouge — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:44:56 +0000

I’ve always been big on new years resolutions and goals and lists of “ten ways I can become a better person.” However as 2011 was such a “holy cow, every aspect of my life is completely and entirely different than the year before” and as at the end of 2011 I was recovering from C02 [...]

Freudians are sexy; Jungians are not ( at least not this last weekend)

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:41:58 +0000

I spent Friday night with Jung and Saturday morning with Freud. That sounds kind of bad. It sounds like I get around, at lease theoretically speaking. Doesn’t it? And the truth is, I do. I am a bit of a psycho-dynamic polyamorist, meaning I love Freud and Jung and Lacan and Winnicott andFairbairn and Bion [...]

Labels that lower your worth or J Crew as Bad Faith

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:21:21 +0000

Okay, so here’s the deal, most of us…me included….like our labels. No, I am not talking about Gucci, Pucci and Fiorucci–although those are some nice labels. Actually my labels of choice are more likely to be JCrew, Kate Spade, Diane Von Furtstenburg and Tory Burch. But those are not the labels I am talking about. [...]

Not sure where to start

La Belette Rouge — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:22:39 +0000

So much time has passed since I last wrote that I don’t know where to start. Weekly I think of two or three topics that I could write about and then don’t. The longer I don’t write the more I feel that the first post back has to be super-special and somehow encapsulate in some [...]

Rudolph the Depressed and Traumatized Reindeer

La Belette Rouge — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:31:50 +0000

Last Year I wrote this on the psychology of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for Psychology Today. I thought it might be fun to pull it out of storage and repost it. I hope you enjoy! When you think about how you want to spend your holidays, I imagine that activities like shopping, cocoa drinking, gift [...]