The Good Judy Blog

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Creativity As a Mental Health Practice

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

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Queer Joy Is Therapy

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

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LGBTQ+ Trauma Therapy

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

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Celebrating Fluidity

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

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