by Liz Scarfe | Mar 9, 2023 | psychology
Sigmund Freud rubber duck from the Freud Museum, Vienna. I kid you not. I first published this guide about five years ago on my old therapy website. Since closing the site I’ve had a few requests to republish it, so here it is, and be warned, it is ULTIMATE...
by Liz Scarfe | Feb 16, 2023 | inner criticism/oppression, oppression/anti-oppression, power, psychology
What do you think? What “authenticity narratives” bug you? What other questions would you ask to assess such narratives for lurking oppressive agendas? Share them in the comments so we can all learn. Share it | Send it | Keep...
by Liz Scarfe | Feb 3, 2023 | inner work, psychology
One key feature of Western culture is the preference for rationalism as a worldview/belief system. Calling rationalism a belief system is a noodle-fryer because rationalism is defined as decidedly NOT a belief system, but rather based in ‘reason’ and ‘knowledge’ as...
by Liz Scarfe | Jan 19, 2023 | inner criticism/oppression, inner work, psychology
It comes up in almost every therapy session I do. The person I’m working with describes their difficulty, and I listen. They describe how they’re personally at fault or inadequate in some way as an explanation for the difficulty: They shouldn’t be doing this, or they...
by Liz Scarfe | Nov 30, 2022 | belonging, foundational, psychology
Heads up: in most of my articles I try not to go into a lot of detailed examples of the concepts to make the article less distressing for people from marginalised groups. In this article, I felt it was important to give more detailed examples, so please note it could...
by Liz Scarfe | Oct 25, 2022 | oppression/anti-oppression, psychology
A lot of my catching up with friends happens by going walking together. Several years ago, on one of these walks, my walking buddy shared with me the story of her very first therapy session, maybe twenty-odd years ago. The therapist asked her, “what do you...
