Careful the Tales You Tell
Much of our mental health depends on the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Mar 7, 2021
The Strength in Our Tears
Public displays of vulnerability indicate our strength, because they signal all we can afford.
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Feb 14, 2021
Step Into What's Real
Dwelling in the desire for what you know you can't have is a form of self-sabotage.
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Feb 3, 2021
The Magic of Alchemy
Our wounds are less the marks of shame than the seeds of initiation.
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Jan 27, 2021
What Lies Beneath
What's underneath our urgency to change (or "improve") is often a desperate, driving self-hatred, whose antidote is patience and...
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Jan 17, 2021
How to Move Forward
What was said can never be unsaid.
What was done can never be undone.
All we can do is acknowledge, apologize, make amends, forgive...
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Jan 13, 2021
The Roots of Our Despair
Misogyny is the root of our homophobia, and it's killing us.
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Dec 17, 2020
All of Us Are Worthy
No matter who you are, or where you've been, or what you've done...
You are not beyond the power of redemption. None of us are.
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Dec 6, 2020
The Power of We
Learned helplessness in the queer community rears its ugly head in many ways: idle drug use, doom scrolling, panic dating, addiction...
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Nov 29, 2020
Fear is a Teacher
We cultivate resilience by going to the places that scare us.
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Nov 21, 2020
The Masks We Wear
At a young age, many gay people learn to dissociate as a matter of self-preservation -- hiding who we are for the sake of survival...
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Oct 23, 2020
The Power of Pain
Trying to expunge those parts of you resulting from years of sorrow and anguish is a losing game. But you can learn to trade your...
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Aug 29, 2020
Moving Forward
Reliving the past is like trying to swim in the same river twice, as the old saying goes. Both you and the river are always changing...
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May 6, 2020
Just Lean In
It's no use trying to hide from life: there's no solace in slack senses.
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May 2, 2020
Empathy Cannot Be Rushed
Empathy requires that we meet each other where we actually are, instead of flipping on life’s light switches.
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