Entered an existencial crisis over my PhD after a tricky couple of supervisions. A menty B as gen Z would say.

Mr. Man listened to the detailed explanation of my research as if he weren't bored out of his mind & then said "why are you crying over a thesis nobody will read anyway?"

I calmed down.

LOL they have a lot of caffeine in them and sometimes other stimulants. I am sensitive to those so I only take half a dose, lest I start seeing sounds.

Thank you for reading and sharing 🙏

Reflections On Therapeutic Love - South of Therapy Featured photo credit: Pourya Gohari “I found myself an object among other objects” (Fanon, 2021, p.89) Beyond western boundaries and notions of “professionalism”, lies a world of possibilities. BEING...

🚨 NEW BLOG: Reflections on Therapeutic Love

Beyond what we have learned about therapeutic skills... What does it mean to BE WITH others in ways that don’t reproduce current views on the individual?

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While I untertake a supervision course I will be offering group and individual supervision (starting April).
Relational, anti-oppressive lens & experience working with migrants and neurodivergent clients.
If you are interested please contact me via my website: www.luciasarmientoverano.com/contact/

"Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and ... every empire imagines itself an exception."
- Ann Laura Stoler

If we listen to it instead of reproducing defensive reactions (such as denial or deflection), we can work through the past, act for reparations and avoid further violence.

Guilt as a political emotion is an ethical challenge to take action and fight for social justice. 4/

Guilt is, according to him, proof of our connection to others who suffer and of the awareness that we are inevitably implicated in the system that creates that suffering.

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However, this perspective doesn’t consider our collective experiences and the fact that we live in a system that constantly harms us and others.

Theodor Adorno viewed guilt as political. Instead of individual remorse or pathology, a collective condition due to the failures of our society. 2/

Perspectives ON GUILT:

In individualistic perspective on Mental Health, guilt is often talked about as an emotion that needs to be worked through and dispelled. The chronic presence of guilt may be pathologised.
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Monotropism, Limerence And Autistic ADHD Experiences | Autistic Realms Limerence in Autistic and ADHD people may be shaped by monotropism, a natural tendency toward deep focus and emotional intensity. Rather than being unhealth ...

New blog: Monotropism, Limerence & Autistic & ADHD Experiences.
Exploring:
• Deep focus
• Emotional intensity
• Flow
• Burnout
• Regulation
Through a neuroaffirming lens.
Find out more:
autisticrealms.com/monotropism-...

Economic Migration and Disenfranchised Processes, an Exorcism Exercise - South of Therapy By: Lucia Sarmiento Verano I have his mouth. And his nose. I did not inherit my mom’s and grandma’s tiny, perfectly shaped along racist and Eurocentric standards, almost Germanic, highly

I want to honour him today by sharing something I wrote a while ago. Something about his story and our experience around it. A blog I wrote a while ago about migration.

Find it through the LINK IN BIO or here: southoftherapy.com/economic-mig...

Eight years have passed and the pain of grief is still present, albeit differently. I remember him by all the love he gave me, and what he passed down: his passion for knowledge, his unapologetical obsessiveness around what truly interested him in the moment. He would be very happy for me today.
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That was it, a business like call. I still carry the questions, without answers, about what actually happened. He was 59 years old, and he would turn 67 today.

Followed a couple of years of intense grief and barely manageable pain while I was trying to continue with my counselling studies. 2/

Today is my father's birthday.
On the 7th of January 2018, I received a call from a French hospital to tell me my father had been in a coma for four days following a fall, and he was now dead. They needed my permission to collect his organs for donation. 1/

Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

💬Subjectivity and Coloniality in Peru
Wed 28th Jan - 5pm
Free tickets

I will be hosted by the APS to talk about my research so far.

I am trying to understand mestize negotiations with this context: reproduction of colonial violence and resistance to it.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/becoming-w...

Mental Health care? Trust me, you don't need another scented candle...

... you need to dismantle internalised oppression.

I truly need a timeline that is less US centric but having to work in English makes it difficult!

Last chance to book your tickets! Pay what you can afford option still available 👇

💬Subjectivity and Coloniality in Peru
Wed 28th Jan - 5pm
Free tickets

I will be hosted by the APS to talk about my research so far.

I am trying to understand mestize negotiations with this context: reproduction of colonial violence and resistance to it.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/becoming-w...

It’s A White Woman’s World – Group Whiteness in Process - South of Therapy Featured photo credit: Teslariu Mihai I don’t want this text to be read as “I didn’t like group process so now I’m making a disparaging piece about it”. Rather, this

📌 Blogs that express the ethos of the South of Therapy project 3/3

It’s A White Woman’s World – Group Whiteness in Process

About group process in therapy training.
(also one of the most popular pieces on the blog)
southoftherapy.com/its-a-white-...

Therapy as a Site of Resistance PART 1: Being in the Client’s Corner - South of Therapy Featured photo credit: Alexandre Dinaut Last year, I wrote about Epistemic Justice in the therapy room and what it may look like through practices like Conscientization and naming oppressive dynamics.

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Therapy as a Site of Resistance PART 1: Being in the Client’s Corner

How does praxis look like in therapy?

southoftherapy.com/therapy-as-a...

Liberalism and Mental Health PART 2: innocence and punishment - South of Therapy Featured photo credit: Ramez E. Nassif I voted in the UKCP chair elections for the first time this year. I voted with one intention: not letting the alt-right, transphobe, anti-EDI,

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Therapy and Liberalism part 2: Innocence and Punishment

On liberalism and power in the therapeutic relationship.

southoftherapy.com/liberalism-a...

Community - South of Therapy About A space for liberation, emerging consciousness and ethical practices. Join us for support in your journey. The South of Therapy project started out as a blog. Its purpose was

Interested in joining or in supporting the project? Head to: southoftherapy.com/community/ to learn more.

Also, anyone who subscribes to our free newsletter now will receive a free webinar recording on Social Inequalities and Mental Health which can count as 1h CPD. Link in Bio. 3/

The project now counts with more than 20 blog posts, of which 2 have been written by wonderful guests, regular community meetings and training events. A monthly newsletter for community members also provides reflective guidance and resources we can discuss during our get togethers. 2/

The South of Therapy project turns 5 today! To celebrate we will be sharing the 3 blog pieces that most represent the Ethos of this community in our stories (keep an eye out on the next 3 days!).

Being able to move at ease with our entire self also means being at ease with others instead of trying to deny the fullness of their humanity.

We do not need the perfection this system sells us, we need humanity and dignity for all. 5/

We spend our lives chasing an impossible perfection, unwittingly participating in a system that keeps us feeling unworthy.

Liberation thus means making space for imperfection, contradictions, messiness, and the unsavory parts of ourselves (and others).
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If we carry shame or self-rejection, even if it’s outside of our awareness, it is much easier to subject us to bad treatments without reactions, and to sell us the illusion of improvement through products, services, and performances.

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