The fight or flight response is your body’s physiological response to threat. It is triggered by a release of hormones in your body when your nervous system perceives a threat. This perception of threat happens before conscious thought and is not a conscious choice the…

The short answer is yes. Not to mention that questioning if a trans kid can truly know their gender is rooted in transphobia. Why would we assume a cisgender kid knows but a trans kid doesn’t? And trans kids are not being given hormones or…

This country certainly socializes its children to respect what is seen as masculine – what is hard, aggressive, powerful, rational, etc. But nature seems to prefer balance. We need the soft, passive, emotional side as well. And these are simply generalizations. All people of any…

A recent report from the Williams Institute found that approximately 1.2 million LGBTQIA+ adults identify as non-binary. In American culture, we have long assumed a gender binary, which is that gender falls into only two, mutually exclusive categories, male or female. Non-binary people’s lived experience…

Forgiveness can be a powerful part of healing, but it is not, and cannot be a requirement of healing. That is because the importance of forgiveness is bound up in questions of morality and spirituality or religion. I find part of toxic positivity on social…

Often in this society we are living in, people don’t like to hear the truth. There are many reasons for this, a big one being the rule of politeness. Politeness is prized above honesty in (white supremacist) American culture. We are not taught how to…