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The Inked Therapist

The Inked Therapist

著者： Soma Roots Therapy LLC
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This is a podcast about slow, embodied, liberation-rooted healing — for people the mental health system was never quite built for.

Hosted by Del Knight, PsyD, LPC, LMHC, CCTP-II (they/them) — licensed psychotherapist, Certified Body Trust Specialist, and co-founder of Soma Roots Therapy — The Inked Therapist is a show for queer and trans people, neurodivergent people, trauma survivors, and anyone who has ever left a therapy session feeling like they performed something rather than healed something.

Each episode is a deep dive: clinically grounded, politically honest, and delivered in a voice that doesn't mistake detachment for professionalism. No optimization hacks. No toxic positivity. No pretending that healing is faster or tidier than it actually is.

Topics include the nervous system and why your body isn't broken, body liberation and the Center for Body Trust framework, the difference between single-incident and complex trauma, what "trauma-informed care" actually requires versus what it's being used to sell, neurodivergent-affirming therapy for ADHD and autistic adults, queer and trans-affirming care beyond the rainbow sticker, and slow therapy for people who are exhausted by the hustle version of healing.

Solo deep-dives alternate with guest conversations featuring clinicians, researchers, and advocates doing work worth amplifying.

This is not a show about fixing yourself. It is a show about stopping the war long enough to actually listen to what your body has been trying to say.

Del practices at Soma Roots Therapy (somarootstherapy.com), a somatic, queer and trans-affirming, neurodivergent-affirming telehealth practice serving adults in Oregon and Washington.

New episodes every two weeks.

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  • Rest as Resistance: Saying No to Grind Culture With Your Whole Body

    Rest as Resistance: Saying No to Grind Culture With Your Whole Body
    2026/10/09

    Episode Summary: In Episode 12 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight goes deep on rest as resistance — not as a wellness trend or a productivity hack, but as a political and ancestral claim rooted in Black feminist tradition. This episode credits the lineage that built this framework (Tricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry, Audre Lorde, womanist and abolitionist thought), names grind culture as a system of extraction with specific racial and capitalist roots, explores the clinical and somatic reasons why rest is genuinely difficult for many people, expands the definition of rest beyond sleep, and makes the case that rest is not an individual wellness practice but a collective political commitment.

    Topics Covered: Rest as resistance · Tricia Hersey and The Nap Ministry · Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto · Audre Lorde and self-preservation as political warfare · Womanist and abolitionist frameworks · Grind culture as system · Racial roots of productivity culture · Nervous system effects of chronic overwork · Why rest feels dangerous · Productivity identity · The unfreezing problem · Seven types of rest (Saundra Dalton-Smith) · Rest for disabled and chronically ill people · Economic precarity and access to rest · Collective rest · Community care · Structural conditions for rest

    Referenced Work & Resources: Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry · Sacred Rest: Saundra Dalton-Smith

    Thematic Companion: Episode 11 — 'Staying Informed Without Burning Out'

    BuyMeACoffee Link: Support the Soma Roots Therapy Access Fund — monthly or one-time

    Links: Soma Roots Therapy Website · Blog companion post · Reach Out & Get Started

    Instagram: @somaticrootstherapy

    Next Episode: Episode 13 — Grief Is Not A 5-Step Checklist
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    40 分
  • Staying Informed Without Burning Out: Your Nervous System and the News

    Staying Informed Without Burning Out: Your Nervous System and the News
    2026/09/25

    Episode Summary: In Episode 11 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight explores one of the most pressing clinical questions of the current political moment: how do you stay informed without destroying your nervous system in the process? This episode covers the physiology of news overload and why the chronic scroll activates the threat response; credits the Black feminist, Indigenous, and abolitionist lineages that have long understood rest and regulation as tools of resistance; offers practical guidance for designing a sustainable information diet without disengaging; walks through somatic practices for before, during, and after news consumption; and reframes the scale and shape of political engagement as a nervous system question, not just a logistics one.

    Topics Covered: Sympathetic nervous system activation · Cortisol and chronic stress · Window of tolerance · News overload research · BIPOC lineages of rest and resistance · Tricia Hersey and The Nap Ministry · Rest as resistance · Trauma organizing · Doom scrolling as hypervigilance · Information diet design · Orienting and grounding practices · Vagal nerve activation · Somatic discharge · Scale of engagement · Constructive journalism · Mutual aid and local organizing · Sustainable activism

    Referenced Work & Resources: Tricia Hersey - The Nap Ministry

    BuyMeACoffee Link: Support the Soma Roots Therapy Access Fund — monthly or one-time

    Links: Soma Roots Therapy Website · Blog companion post · Reach Out & Get Started

    Instagram: @somaticrootstherapy

    Next Episode: Episode 12 — Rest As Resistance
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    41 分
  • What Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy Actually Looks Like

    What Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy Actually Looks Like
    2026/09/11

    Episode Summary: In Episode 10 of The Inked Therapist — and the final episode of the first solo arc — Del Knight breaks down what neurodivergent-affirming therapy actually requires. This episode covers the neurotypical defaults baked into standard clinical training, the history of harm caused by ABA and social skills training, the critical difference between accommodating and affirming neurodivergence, what genuinely affirming therapy looks like in a real session, and the specific clinical terrain of masking and late diagnosis. Closes with a reflection on the full five-episode arc.

    Topics Covered: Neurotypical defaults in clinical training · Alexithymia · Executive function and therapy homework · ABA legacy and harm · Social skills training as suppression · The double empathy problem (Damian Milton) · Deficit model vs. difference model · Affirming vs. accommodating · Interoception and neurodivergence · Sensory experience in session · Masking and autistic burnout · Late diagnosis and retrospective re-interpretation · ADHD and autism in queer/trans communities · Diagnostic gaps for women, AFAB people, and BIPOC folks

    Referenced Work: The Double Empathy Problem — Damian Milton (2012)

    BuyMeACoffee Link: Support the Soma Roots Therapy Access Fund — monthly or one-time

    Links: Soma Roots Therapy Website · Blog companion post · Reach Out & Get Started

    Instagram: @somaticrootstherapy

    Next Episode: Episode 11 — Staying Informed Without Burning Out
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    49 分
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