The Good Judy Blog

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Attachment in LGBTQIA+ Relationships

Modern romantic suffering is not primarily about compatibility, communication skills, orpersonal failure. It’s the predictable outcome of widespread insecure attachment interacting with dopamine-driven dating systems, weakened community structures, and misunderstood

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Self-Compassion as Resistance

A trauma-informed therapy perspective from a Dallas-based practice serving LGBTQIA+ adults across Texas In our work providing LGBTQ+ affirming therapy in Dallas, we see how quickly clients confuse self-criticism with

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Minority Stress – A Path to Restoration

Minority Stress in LGBTQIA+ Lives: How Chronic Stigma Impacts Mental Health and What Healing Requires Most clinical research frameworks reliably converge on 5 types of stress. Acute, episodic acute, chronic,

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