Sam, Adelita, Justin: Session Notes From the World's Therapist - October 14, 2025
Daily serialized fiction
For context I encourage you to read the Introduction to this series here.
Ruth munches Chicago Mix as she records today’s session notes.
Sam:
Here were some of my responses to Sam.
I was surprised by a number of pieces in what you just said. first question I have is, this is the first I heard that you got the mental health piece right. That feels fast to me.
As it seems like, if my memory serves, in the spring you weren’t aware there was a problem.
Are you confident?
What happened there?
As I listen to what you’ve said here the question that comes to mind is, who are your role models?
Like the really great people, the innovators, the entrepreneurs, I wonder who they are. You’re at the edge of a groundbreaking innovation for humanity. And I wonder if it would be helpful for you to spend time reading and immersing yourself in the stories of other people who were at similar turning points in innovation.
In business, maybe in the military, in government.
I wonder if that could be of use to you.
Adelita: Adelita was elected to Congress in Arizona on September 23rd and she has not yet been sworn in by Speaker Mike Johnson.
And once she’s in Congress, she would be the final signatory needed on an effort to force a vote on legislation related to releasing files about the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. the shutdown happened after the election, Mike Johnson has said the delay is due to the shutdown despite other elected officials being sworn in within two to three days of their election. Fox 10.
Adelita.
You were elected to replace your father.
Your father who died of cancer in March, 2025.
And now your election is on the national stage.
How does this feel?
What do you think your father would have said?
Do you see your activism for democracy, for the US government, for transparency related to your relationship with your father?
Perhaps is the creative way of grieving. The mourning as opposed to the melancholia.1 The creation of something new from loss.
Something perhaps you know your father would have wanted. And in this way, you are close to him.
Justin.
Pictures were taken over the weekend of Justin and Katy Perry on a luxury yacht off California. Forbes
I told Justin how happy I was for him that he was enjoying a new relationship.
And then we went a little deeper we looked at patterns with his mother, how he was able and not able to get affection and how that influenced his choice of partner and some of the dynamics that happened there.
We looked at the similarities between his relationship with his mother, Margaret, Sophie, and now Katy, in order to pay attention to the parts of Justin that still need that tenderness from when he was very young, and paying attention to those parts so they don’t dominate this adult relationship with Katie.
We did this work based on the idea that every relationship is an opportunity to grow and we’re always going to have our patterns to some extent. The more we can talk about them and feel them, the more we’re able to meet another adult where they’re at right now, rather than being dominated by unmet needs or repressed aggression or those types of patterns.
Feeling a bit scattered in many directions, Ruth puts on her wool jacket and steps into the fall evening for her 20-minute walk home.
We meet online, but the real work happens off-screen. A reminder to all of us to step outside, feel the earth beneath our feet, take a breath of fresh air, and remember who we really are.
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Mourning and Melancholia, Sigmund Freud.
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