What helps us feel more like ourselves?

Studio Soma is an editorial home for the curious.

A place where psychology meets art. Where everyday rituals become worthy of attention. Where photography, essays and thoughtful objects invite us to slow down and notice what has been there all along.

Not self-improvement.

Self-return.

01. Relationships

The people who shape us, soften us, challenge us and teach us who we are.

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02. The Body

The place we spend our whole lives. A home, a history and a conversation.

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03. Nature

The quiet teacher waiting just beyond the noise.

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04. Creativity

Making as a way of paying attention.

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05. Home

The spaces, objects and rituals that help us feel like ourselves.

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Field Notes

Observations on psychology, creativity and the strange business of being human.

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Field Notes

The Body, Creativity

A High Distinction in Therapy

The Body, Creativity

FIELD NOTE 003

I realised recently that I wasn't just doing therapy. I was trying to win it. I wanted to be the client with the insights, the one who had already connected all the dots before arriving. Performing insight looks remarkably like having it, which is why it took me so long to notice.

FIELD NOTE 002

I was halfway along the boardwalk when the goosebumps started. Then came the tears. Nothing bad had happened. In fact, something very good had. Sometimes the body knows something before the mind catches up, and sometimes an ordinary walk becomes the place where you finally notice it.

FIELD NOTE 001

Finding Is a Destination. Staying Is a Practice. People talk a lot about finding yourself, but I don't think I've ever been lost in the way the phrase implies. What I've been learning, slowly and with a fairly average success rate, is how to stay with myself. Finding is a destination. Staying is a practice.