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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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. youtu.be/aggkKu9-oUs

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The Power of Not Knowing: Why Negative Capability is Your Secret Therapeutic Superpower

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What if the future isn't something that happens TO you, but something you can actively co-author? youtu.be/vmQ7dxH5WjM

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Change Your Future: How to Co-Author the Story That Wants to Emerge

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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? youtu.be/z89gf28SP0Q

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The Threshold: How to Navigate the Space Between Stories

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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. youtu.be/Q8H-OEmtB2E

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The Pull from the Past: Why Your Story Keeps Looking Backward

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

“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. youtu.be/w0rY53gBmcs

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Kierkegaard, Narrative Therapy & the Adjacent Possible

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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. youtu.be/9bOYrodlC44

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Subverting Academic Publishing: Zines, Art Books, and Beyond

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"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. chrishoff.substack.com/p/beyond-com...

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Beyond Community

The Case for Coalitional Thinking in Therapy and Social Life

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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. open.substack.com/pub/chrishof...

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Therapy Rocks! | Against Nostalgia

The Narrative Architecture of Sentimentality

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today, male insecurity has become a political tool. Influencers and politicians alike are weaponizing masculinity, and it’s costing us all. youtu.be/dpx2JWeMmYM

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How Patriarchy Still Hurts Men—and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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? youtu.be/okQMt9xpJFU

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Holding the Line in Narrative Therapy: Ethics, Politics, and Community

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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? open.substack.com/pub/chrishof...

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Therapy Rocks! | Michael White AI

AI, Narrative Therapy, and the Crisis of the Imagined Voice

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Mariangels FD @mfdriverbankps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

rare-d.com/podcasts/rar... ‘RARE COMEDY’ – A PODCAST FOR RARE DISEASE DAY 2025 With @Jamie MacDonald, @Yvonne Hughes and @Jibreel Arshad

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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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🔹 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. open.substack.com/pub/chrishof...

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Therapist = Artist

The Shared Precarity of Creativity and Care

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"So how do we tangle with hope? An important question in contemporary times." chrishoff.substack.com/p/abandon-hope

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Abandon Hope?

A talk given at the Empty Moon Zen Sangha on 1-18-25

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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.. open.substack.com/pub/chrishof...

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Therapy Rocks! | The Anti-Social Moment

Your grip on reality is slipping. Really.

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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...

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Therapy Rocks! | 2025 Therapy Predictions

And the Body Doesn't Keep the Score..

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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...

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Therapy Rocks! | 2025 Therapy Predictions

And the Body Doesn't Keep the Score..

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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. open.substack.com/pub/chrishof...

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From Experience-Distant to Experience-Near: Reclaiming Language for Transformative Change

Neoliberalism, Decolonization, Capitalism, Oh My

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Chris Hoff @drchrishoff.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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...

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Therapy Sucks | Gen Z gets Red Pilled

Can’t we agree at this point that we all have a little fascist in us?

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