You mention that you’re bisexual and you watch the person in front of you do arithmetic. If you’re dating a woman, the sum comes out one way. If you’re married
Pride Month is a season of visibility. Mainstream media covers our stories, government agencies issue statements and proclamations, corporations peddle our merch and display our flags. Sometimes the attention feels
Every June, rainbow logos appear. Flags go up. Corporations discover a sudden enthusiasm for diversity. While we love the celebration, truly, pride is more than celebration.
The Monetization of Creativity Productivity culture has done remarkable damage to the human psyche. It has transformed creativity into performance, branding, monetization, content. There are an almost innumerable number of
Your brain doesn’t know the difference between winning big and winning small.No one is sending themselves a congratulatory email for holding it together when you really want to throat punch
Some people think therapy means sitting in a dimly lit room, crying into a feelings wheel throw pillow while the therapist sits in the corner nodding saying, “tell me more
Nervous System Safety at Work There’s a five-sense vibe to a high-conflict office. The smell of burnt coffee, the aggressive percussion of someone who types like their keyboard owes them
The general orthodoxy in mental health culture that says healing is solitary work. That the real transformation happens between you and your therapist, in a room with a white noise
Someone, somewhere along the way, told you to close your eyes and breathe deep into your belly. To notice where you feel tension and try to soften around it. Instead
You’re not anxious because your nervous system is broken. You’re adapted. Your system learned that the world requires vigilance. The tightness in your chest when you walk into a room,
The therapy room is sacred. Jung used the word “temenos”, sacred precinct, to describe both the therapeutic relationship and the space within us where the work of therapy can be
The concept of coming out mystifies me. No one comes out as straight. They just are. They talk about their straightness in a million little ways every day. It’s demonstrated
Who told you to pick a side? A parent? Friend? A therapist?? Maybe it was a partner who needed your identity to hold still so theirs could feel secure. Somewhere
For decades, the price of being believed as a trans person in a clinical setting has been proving how much you hurt. Dysphoria became the toll booth. You described your
I often wonder what the mood is at holiday tables when someone is missing. They’re not dead, just… decided against. Their parents decided that their child’s queerness was incompatible with
Most advice about intimacy starts with the assumption that you already feel entitled to your own desire. For most LGBTQIA+ people, that assumption is a fantasy. You learned, long before
There is a particular ache to a fractured friendship within the queer community. Maybe it resembles other relational wounds on the surface. The same silence where conversation once flourished, the
The language of affirmation has become so ubiquitous in therapeutic spaces that it risks becoming meaningless. Every practice website promises a “safe, welcoming environment.” Rainbow flags appear in office windows.
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