Trans and LGBTQIA+

As we just finished Transgender Awareness Week I feel called to make a very important point, that awareness is not enough anymore and neither is acceptance. It is 2021 we know that trans and non-binary people exist. Maybe we as a society need to start…

The week of November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week and directly precedes the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This Day of Remembrance is when we remember the trans and gender diverse individuals lost to violence over the past year. As the visibility of trans folx has…

I find that when someone fears change or the discomfort that may come from it, then tend to over-focus on this pain and fail to attend to the pain of their current state. This is understandable, whatever pain or discomfort you are currently in is…

  There is often a narrative around gender diversity that it is new, and strictly a white phenomenon, or a North American phenomenon. Each of these narratives and assumptions are wrong. Over the next couple of weeks I will be posting examples that  show how…

Truer words were never spoken. Many of us are born into circumstances that we would not choose. Each of us has the choices to stay and be defined by where we are born, who we are born to and the bodies we were born into.…

Chronic shame is a hallmark of attachment trauma, of emotional misattunement or lack of validation by caretakers. Shame is the belief not just that one has DONE something bad, but one IS bad. We hold shame away from the light because the idea that someone…