Dr. Megan Anna Neff

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1,098 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2023 last heard Jun 2025

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And this is why therapy, especially as someone who's moved through the world, I identify as a gender.

So moved through the world as a primarily culturally socialized as a girl.

And that's how my therapists have treated me.

Where there's a lot of expectation around like emotions and like the warm gooey stuff, like, oh, that feels intrusive.

I don't connect to it.

So whenever therapists and this goes back to what Deborah was saying earlier about how like a tendency to see things as defenses.

I let people into my inner world through my mind, through ideas, through philosophy.

So I might bring in like a really rich metaphor, something I'm reading on.

But then a therapist might try to redirect me to my emotions, right?

Of like, yes, but how do you feel about that?

Which is turning what I'm doing is an object-based conversation.

Um, which is a very autistic way of communicating.

I'm telling you about my inner world but through a medium.

And then the f therapist is flipping it into a social based conversation, which is that's all that tell me about yourself, who are you?

Those all feel like sensory demands to me and they are very hard to answer because it requires

complex synthesis of things.

Like how am I?

Like if you were to ask me right now, Debbie, like how am I?

I don't know.

Like what bucket in my life are you talking about?

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