Dr Ruth Smith
@dr-ruthsmith.bsky.social
Relational feminist psychotherapist • PhD • interested in politics and psychotherapy • passionate about ending domestic abuse against cis and trans women • #ME and #FND • Reproductive and Disability rights are human rights • she/her • Ⓥ •
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Dr Ruth Smith
@dr-ruthsmith.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I’ve noticed an influx of new Bluesky users.
✨Welcome!✨
I’m a psychotherapist who primarily works with women who:
• have experienced domestic abuse and coercive control
• have invisible disabilities/chronic illness
• I’m interested in safe, ethical therapy and the politics of psychotherapy
✨Welcome!✨
I’m a psychotherapist who primarily works with women who:
• have experienced domestic abuse and coercive control
• have invisible disabilities/chronic illness
• I’m interested in safe, ethical therapy and the politics of psychotherapy
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BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
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November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
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On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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I wrote about Trump’s comments trivializing domestic violence, and tried to chart the parallels between his own theory of governance and the logic of abusers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I wrote about Trump’s comments trivializing domestic violence, and tried to chart the parallels between his own theory of governance and the logic of abusers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’ve never been more scared about the state of the world
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’ve never been more scared about the state of the world
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Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
September 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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NOT a small part. A big, big, big part. I am a glorified audio stenographer, to these fabulous women.
Season Finale! I’m so proud to have been a small part of this podcast with my fellow experts. But the credit goes to @sturdyalex.bsky.social who has worked incredibly hard and produced an outstanding podcast. He really is as lovely, inclusive, funny and clever as he comes across on his podcasts 💜
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
September 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
NOT a small part. A big, big, big part. I am a glorified audio stenographer, to these fabulous women.
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Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
September 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
Season Finale! I’m so proud to have been a small part of this podcast with my fellow experts. But the credit goes to @sturdyalex.bsky.social who has worked incredibly hard and produced an outstanding podcast. He really is as lovely, inclusive, funny and clever as he comes across on his podcasts 💜
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m
podcasts.apple.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Season Finale! I’m so proud to have been a small part of this podcast with my fellow experts. But the credit goes to @sturdyalex.bsky.social who has worked incredibly hard and produced an outstanding podcast. He really is as lovely, inclusive, funny and clever as he comes across on his podcasts 💜
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🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m
podcasts.apple.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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🚨 BREAKING: Russia has struck the EU delegation building in Kyiv.
Read the developing story: ow.ly/N2RW50WNllP
Read the developing story: ow.ly/N2RW50WNllP
August 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Russia has struck the EU delegation building in Kyiv.
Read the developing story: ow.ly/N2RW50WNllP
Read the developing story: ow.ly/N2RW50WNllP
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Here’s my take. I resent having to hear voices that I trust endorsing a platform that erodes the value and viability of our profession. As a kicker, they are helping to line the pockets of US tech bros and investors whose values I (and I suspect they) find repellent. 🤑💰 #podcast #advertising
August 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Here’s my take. I resent having to hear voices that I trust endorsing a platform that erodes the value and viability of our profession. As a kicker, they are helping to line the pockets of US tech bros and investors whose values I (and I suspect they) find repellent. 🤑💰 #podcast #advertising
Fellow therapists: do you also feel uneasy with BetterHelp ads on every podcast?
I can’t identify the source of my concern but I’m aware of the criticisms (low pay/high caseloads, mismatch in client needs and therapist expertise)
Does it erode trust in #therapy?
#counselling #psychotherapy
I can’t identify the source of my concern but I’m aware of the criticisms (low pay/high caseloads, mismatch in client needs and therapist expertise)
Does it erode trust in #therapy?
#counselling #psychotherapy
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fellow therapists: do you also feel uneasy with BetterHelp ads on every podcast?
I can’t identify the source of my concern but I’m aware of the criticisms (low pay/high caseloads, mismatch in client needs and therapist expertise)
Does it erode trust in #therapy?
#counselling #psychotherapy
I can’t identify the source of my concern but I’m aware of the criticisms (low pay/high caseloads, mismatch in client needs and therapist expertise)
Does it erode trust in #therapy?
#counselling #psychotherapy
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This is probably the episode that I would Clockwork-Orange-force every Labour politician to listen to.
The amount of work that went into this 75 minutes almost killed me. I hope you get a lot of joy and insight from it. x
The amount of work that went into this 75 minutes almost killed me. I hope you get a lot of joy and insight from it. x
New: 🐸 AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways
🐇 What is the moral of "The Tortoise & The Hare"?🐺 What is the warning in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"?🦊 What does "sour grapes" mean?
You're probably wrong about all three.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5hxS...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
🐇 What is the moral of "The Tortoise & The Hare"?🐺 What is the warning in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"?🦊 What does "sour grapes" mean?
You're probably wrong about all three.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5hxS...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 12/08/2025 · 1h 22m
podcasts.apple.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is probably the episode that I would Clockwork-Orange-force every Labour politician to listen to.
The amount of work that went into this 75 minutes almost killed me. I hope you get a lot of joy and insight from it. x
The amount of work that went into this 75 minutes almost killed me. I hope you get a lot of joy and insight from it. x
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Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
August 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
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On Sky News from 12:30 giving a view on today's stories. You can watch live here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvs...
Watch Sky News
YouTube video by Sky News
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August 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
On Sky News from 12:30 giving a view on today's stories. You can watch live here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvs...
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Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
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Trump whipping himself up about cracking down on DC.
The language - “savagery, filth and scum” - should worry any right-minded person.
The language - “savagery, filth and scum” - should worry any right-minded person.
August 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Trump whipping himself up about cracking down on DC.
The language - “savagery, filth and scum” - should worry any right-minded person.
The language - “savagery, filth and scum” - should worry any right-minded person.
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#BREAKING | CNN’s Matthew Chance joins the Jordanian air force in a flight over Gaza and gets an aerial view of the widespread destruction caused by the Israeli military after almost two years of genocide war.
This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza
This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza
August 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#BREAKING | CNN’s Matthew Chance joins the Jordanian air force in a flight over Gaza and gets an aerial view of the widespread destruction caused by the Israeli military after almost two years of genocide war.
This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza
This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza
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obviously that was incoherent because I'm angry, anyway I saw this on Cambridge Heath Road yesterday and thought it was nice
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
obviously that was incoherent because I'm angry, anyway I saw this on Cambridge Heath Road yesterday and thought it was nice
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🆕 The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats 📉
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage @brianklaas.bsky.social.
🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13Gz...
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage @brianklaas.bsky.social.
🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13Gz...
The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/08/2025 · 1h 10m
podcasts.apple.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
🆕 The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats 📉
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage @brianklaas.bsky.social.
🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13Gz...
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage @brianklaas.bsky.social.
🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13Gz...