“Jamés, is there any chance you can take tomorrow off? Do you want to go mountain bike riding in the rain 🌧️ ☔️ ?? It’s really beautiful, and there’s place in Marin where it’s not muddy and we can have a beautiful ride. China Camp in Marin.”
This was my friend Sasan🇮🇷 on phone Wednesday morning. Been storms in the bay area and there’s a lot of hype (and some true loss ie floods in Santa Rosa). Sasan’s call showed me that people can see the world totally differently, different perspective different sense of joy and excitement…
99% of the conversation and news about rain is negative, new weather vocabulary like “bomb cyclone” or “ atmospheric river” has people all anxsty.
Meanwhile Sasan (and a few others) looooove storms 🌧️ ☔️. “What better way to connect w Nature?”
Likewise, one of my clients in therapy said, “Oh the rain is such a good time to go fishing 🎣!” A lot of people are taking day off work bc they want to be out in the rain catching fish; freshwater is stirred up by the rain, the fish go nuts.”

Tag: CBT
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Rain perspectives
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See. Be. Do.
Western psychology often focuses on behavior (doing). In contrast, Eastern and Native approaches emphasize seeing, and being, before doing. Many cultures place high value on being (and learning to be) in community w each other vs. individual orientation.
In therapy, people from diverse backgrounds find that incorporating perspectives of different cultures (anthropological / ecological context) helps to free up different ways to reflect and see self, and w self determination consider how to be with others. This helps to prepare people to make healthy changes in behavior and thought. Photo is image of #GuanYin, “relaxed composure.”
Guan Yin “relaxed composure” See it.
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Feel it
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James Wogan LCSW 