CHAT SESSION 2 Muriel Cooper
Topic- ‘The Daily Mirror’
Monday 8th May 2023 1pm https://rppfm.com.au/
Catch up and listen to our chat https://megaphone.link/LCRUI1422663526
‘The Daily Mirror’ in the month of May welcomes some wonderful people who I have met in my new community who also reside on the Mornington Peninsula.
‘THE DAILY MIRROR’
The first mirrors were made in Turkey, Greece, and Egypt in about 4,000 BCE They were made of polished obsidian (volcanic glass). Then there was polished copper, silver or bronze which weren't great and could only have been afforded by the very wealthy. Ancient Egyptians used them for reflecting light. Small glass mirrors evolved in the 3rd century BCE and were most likely used as jewellery and not to see yourself in. So the common folk had to make do with seeing their reflection distorted or in very still water like a pond (the origin of the myth of Narcissus) or a scrying bowl which is often depicted as magical). Only the rich could have their portrait painted. Modern mirrors came about around the 12th century AD and were refined in the 13th century - Venice was a huge mirror making capital, again only for the rich, who still liked to have their portrait painted. Glass Mirrors became commonplace only a couple of hundred years ago. It's been argued that mirrors completely changed how we see ourselves and contributed to our rise of individualism. Neanderthals were less self-aware than homo sapiens. It's argued that before mirrors people were less self-aware and more hive-minded, which is why being banished was such a wrench. How we see ourselves in the mirror can affect our everyday emotional health depending on whether we look at ourselves: Critically
Judgementally
Lovingly
Obsessively
As a friend Remembering what we see isn't accurate as our image is flipped. Mirrors can be a crucial part of our emotional health.
Muriel Cooper was a prominent talk radio personality in Melbourne, Australia, throughout the seventies and eighties, covering current affairs and lifestyle.
She is now a writer, psychologist, and blogger at The Talking Room.
Her highly successful media career included a morning radio talk show on the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Melbourne, Victoria.
She became the first woman in Australia to rate Number 1 in prime-time talk radio for her afternoon talkshow on 3AW Melbourne. Muriel Cooper made frequent television appearances, worked on Radio Australia, and was a columnist for the Herald Newspaper (now the Herald Sun).
She is now a psychotherapist and practices on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne. She writes for Peninsula Essence Magazine.
Muriel writes fiction, young adult fiction, non-fiction, children’s stories, short stories,and poetry.
Her first novel ‘Lucid’ is now published by Pegasus UK. Muriel has had a lifelong love of writing and psychology. She combined the two in ‘Lucid’ the story of Rick Peterson, a Melbourne criminal lawyer who becomes a luciddreamer. Rick invents a nostalgic dream down where it’s always 1959 and alwaysperfect until there’s a grisly murder which Rick must solve to save his sanity. Lucid is a psychological murder mystery/fantasy.
Contact
Muriel Cooper
murielcooper@talkingroom.com.au
My hope is that when you’re looking at yourself in the
‘The Daily Mirror’
YOU SMILE, EMBRACE BEING YOU
AND FIND 10 MINUTES IN YOUR DAY TO NOURISH YOUR SOUL!
To get in touch with Cathy email smileinthedailymirror@gmail.com
'The Daily Mirror' acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of the land and acknowledges and pays respect to their Elders, past and present.
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