What if one of the most radical skills in therapy isn’t about having answers, but about dwelling in uncertainty?
In this video, I explore the concept of negative capability, first introduced by poet John Keats in 1817, and how it can transform your therapeutic practice.
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What if the future isn't something that happens TO you, but something you can actively co-author?
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The Threshold: How to Navigate the Space Between Stories"
Feeling stuck in the in-between? That uncomfortable space where your old story has ended but your new one hasn't begun yet?
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what if digging deeper into your past is actually keeping you stuck?
In this first video of a series, I explore the seductive pull of the past, including nostalgia, causal thinking, and the belief that understanding your history will automatically set you free.
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“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.” — Søren Kierkegaard
In this episode of The Radical Therapist, we explore what happens when we mistake numbness for contentment and how narrative therapy can help us reimagine the story we’re living.
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Academic publishing is broken. In this video, I unpack the gatekeeping, paywalls, and prestige games that dominate the world of scholarly publishing and share my journey from punk zines to a PhD to coming full circle with radical art book publishing.
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Why We Don’t Treatment Plan in Narrative Therapy (And What We Do Instead)
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Beyond Community: The Case for Coalitional Thinking in Therapy and Social Life
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"the very idea of community can function as a political fantasy not unlike the conservative trope of “family values.” In both cases, what’s being invoked is not the messiness of real relationships but a kind of imagined coherence. A purity.
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can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now
Nostalgia. Sentimentality. At first, they appear as comfort: a return to a familiar room, a voice we used to know, a time before the fracture. But I’ve come to see how they can operate like amber, preserving a version of ourselves that no longer breathes.
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Today, male insecurity has become a political tool. Influencers and politicians alike are weaponizing masculinity, and it’s costing us all.
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Holding the Line: The Politics and Ethics of Narrative Therapy in a Therapeutic Culture of Endless Certifications How do we stay rooted in narrative practice while navigating systems that feed on our insecurities and push endless credentials?
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What does it mean when AI can simulate not just information but presence? And what does this mean for narrative therapy, a practice so deeply rooted in voice, authorship, and relational meaning-making?
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Rare Comedy podcast rare day 2025 we are joined by guests, Jamie MacDonald, Yvonne Hughes and Jibreel Arshad and Mariangels, Rhona and Rachel in the picture
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‘RARE COMEDY’ – A PODCAST FOR RARE DISEASE DAY 2025
With @Jamie MacDonald,
@Yvonne Hughes and @Jibreel Arshad
🔹 Therapist = Artist? 🔹
What if the struggles of contemporary artists mirror those of therapists? Here I explore how the Anonymous Creative Futures Report reveals deep parallels between the precarity of creative work and the dilemmas facing modern therapy.
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"So how do we tangle with hope? An important question in contemporary times."
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Welcome to Therapy Sucks Rocks a bi-monthly round-up of things I have found interesting in therapy world and beyond with some opinions attached. I will be doing this along with my regular posts on various topics. Let's get going..
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Welcome to the first Therapy Sucks! of 2025. You might have noticed that this is actually titled Therapy Rocks! Which leads me right into my 2025 predictions.
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Welcome to the first Therapy Sucks! of 2025. You might have noticed that this is actually titled Therapy Rocks! Which leads me right into my 2025 predictions.
chrishoff.substack.com/p/therapy-ro...
Not to be reactionary but on the backside of this election in the U.S. I am reflecting on the language we use in our activist and academic spaces and wondering how it supports coalition building or continues to fragment.
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Welcome to Therapy Sucks a bi-monthly round-up of things I have found interesting in therapy world and beyond with some opinions attached. I will be doing this along with my regular posts on various topics. open.substack.com/pub/chrishof...
