Talking Through

A conversation between psychologist Teal Fitzpatrick, and you, our readers, on our shared humanity and reclaiming self-care.

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Liberation Psychology — Part I

I came to Liberation Psychology through my own research during a period of growing disenchantment with, and anger at, the current state of American Psychology. What I saw and experienced, clinically and theoretically, was a willful erasure of the massive impact of oppression on the individual experiences of clients by medical and psychological systems.

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Ask and Answer: Personalizing Self-Care Practices

So often we are offered skills and practices that don’t quite work for us. As a fellow human who also panics during meditation attempts, I have had to learn more about the process of grounding (grounding defined here as feeling safe and present, as opposed to anxious and distracted) and using this as a roadmap to find what works for me.

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