148 - Identity Indoctrination & the Black Hole of Gender
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this episode, Sasha and Stella explore the complexities facing therapists curious about supporting gender dysphoric patients. Join us for a well-rounded take on investing in the process, embracing client-therapist dynamics, managing differing worldviews, and leaning into the fundamental therapeutic value of asking questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland. |
| 0:04.4 | And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States. |
| 0:08.6 | And this is Gender, a wider lens, a podcast dedicated to the shifting concepts around gender in our contemporary culture. |
| 0:16.0 | Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we seek to open up the discourse around this hot button issue. |
| 0:25.0 | Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi, Stella. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, hello, we're back we're back and it's February now. Yeah I've missed you. Yeah I've missed you. You know we have our regular meetings and then we really didn't we really didn't very much |
| 0:44.1 | at all. Yeah we felt very distant you felt like some just far-off lady in Ireland |
| 0:49.9 | that I used to talk to every single week so it's nice to be back we should have |
| 0:55.0 | definitely connected during that break anyway but we just got busy with our lives |
| 0:59.2 | yeah and I felt I felt it I did feel it I felt felt the difference you know it can feel a bit relentless doing the podcast every week |
| 1:07.6 | Did it is a and yet not doing it. I felt the lack of it. Yeah I know it's nice to be back how was your |
| 1:16.2 | break it was good it was good the usual family stuff at Christmas then hanging out a lot more with the kids and stuff. |
| 1:26.0 | I've made a resolution which I'm determined to keep but I'm already failing at but that |
| 1:32.1 | doesn't mean it will be a failure to work less. |
| 1:35.8 | That's what I want to do. I want to work less. |
| 1:38.8 | It's hard. |
| 1:40.2 | Thinking specifics about that or just broadly? like how are you doing it? |
| 1:44.8 | Broadly. |
| 1:45.8 | Just trying to kind of say right that's it for today. |
| 1:48.6 | Right that's it for today. |
| 1:49.6 | Okay. |
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