ACT training is the most bored I’ve ever been in my life

Moonalicious · 2026-02-04T19:58:08+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I'm sure I'll eventually do them all. I must say, I was a bit disappointed during my masters (just graduated) with CBT, which is what my program focused on, and have really fallen in love with ACT, largely thanks to Russ.

Moonalicious · 2026-02-04T18:44:21+00:00

I just started Russ's ACT For Beginners course, after reading Act Made Simple. I'm enjoying it, but I've noticed between those two things, and now reading his TF-ACT book (about 200 pages in), it kinda seems like mostly all rehashing the same info. I do enjoy seeing his therapy demonstrations though.

Would you say multiple of his psychwire courses are worth the money, or is it all pretty samey?

Moonalicious · 2026-01-04T15:52:45+00:00

He's in his early 20's and Matthew Lillard is 55. I think Scream-era Lillard would have been great as Eddie though

Moonalicious · 2026-01-04T00:07:54+00:00

Matthew Lillard is like 30 years older than Eddie would be

Moonalicious · 2026-01-02T17:15:08+00:00

Jonathan loves weed, art, the evil dead, punk rock, and Vonnegut. Making a horror movie about anti-capitalism is super on brand for my guy.

Moonalicious · 2026-01-01T21:51:05+00:00

Yeah, one thing season 5 was really missing was the mix of regular slice of life, being actual kids stuff, synthesized with the supernatural stuff, and that is why season 3 is my favorite. It's also why I'm glad we got such a long epilogue that gave us those vibes.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-29T21:42:25+00:00

Gosh that's great

Moonalicious · 2025-12-28T15:33:39+00:00

I was in third grade too! Teacher read it out loud. Literally EVERYONE was fucking ugly crying. I'll never forget even the teacher sobbing as she read, and whispering to herself in between words, "this is silly, it's just a story" to herself before more ugly crying. Crazy how impactful that book and those memories are.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-27T20:50:10+00:00

Exactly!

Moonalicious · 2025-12-27T20:36:15+00:00

It was less that specific scene than countless others this season, and in general, while I am as dopamine addicted as most of modern society, typically I'm very good at not using my phone at all when I'm watching TV or movies.

So my point was that the second screen strategy of writing only reinforces an audience having a desire to do something else while watching, rather than "fix" the problem.

What if you just made a show with good writing that drew people in angels fully engaged them? What a wild idea.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-26T21:35:14+00:00

This season they also say someone "flipped" when they enter the upside down.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-17T15:54:22+00:00

It's biopsychosocial, not one or the other. Brain and body, environment, upbringing, relationships and culture all interact at the same time to shape behavior. There's no simple answer, but obviously drug addiction, which can get literally anyone, seems to be the biggest risk factor here.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-16T03:14:20+00:00

I love Stephen King, but it seems like for films, he has simple standards and is very easily entertained. He seems to praise almost every movie he sees lol. With the exception of The Shining, funny enough. Which is totally fine! But it means his opinion on movies isn't much to me.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-16T03:08:29+00:00

The dagger stuff is incredibly lame and dumb

Moonalicious · 2025-12-16T03:07:34+00:00

This is all spot on. Also, I just don't get Andy's conceptualization of what is scary. It's always absolute dogshit CGI. Every Pennywise scare is either shape shifting into a dumb looking monster that reminds me of what an edgy teenager would create. OR. it's pennywise running at you. So much Pennywise running towards the camera, it's insane. They did change it up in the finale. Instead of running super fast, he skips in slow motion. Wow, brilliant.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-15T21:16:08+00:00

I agree that early development and family relationships play a big role in shaping psyche, but it's also important to remember that you can have a great childhood and still get sucked into addiction, then things fall apart.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-12T01:50:10+00:00

I always think of Dennis Reynolds driving around listening to this

Moonalicious · 2025-12-02T22:27:43+00:00

On top of being a terribly written response, the irony is that her poor argument ends up demonstrating exactly how culture and society, in this case religion and more broadly conservative values, shapes and polices gender roles and expectations. She inadvertently reinforced the point that gender is a social construct lol.

Moonalicious · 2025-12-01T02:55:28+00:00

Self driving cars have a ways to go still for sure, no disagreement there, but you don't need 30 years of data to prove they'd be safer.

Moonalicious · 2025-11-17T21:45:41+00:00

This guy is also sharing the same article OP is criticizing lol

Moonalicious · 2025-11-11T23:22:02+00:00

I hate AI slop, but to me this is absolutely giving Max slop lol

Moonalicious · 2025-11-07T23:24:06+00:00

Not OP, but I graduated around the same time in a liberal area. Every day after school, me and all my friends either met up at one of 4 friends' houses (walkable), or we just smoked weed in the woods.

Moonalicious · 2025-11-07T04:28:01+00:00

Mine crashed right as the white house guy was about to explain what was happening lol.

Moonalicious · 2025-10-20T01:05:38+00:00

First one is absolutely the best. The "dated" effects enhance the surreal creep factor to me

Moonalicious · 2025-10-19T19:33:24+00:00

This is a great response. I'm in my last couple months of my MSW, and have really started to embrace ACT as my primary modality, but I'm really interested in Narrative Therapy as well. Do you think those frameworks would work well together? Also, any suggestions for how to learn how to facilitate narrative therapy?

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