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Jan 11, 2021
What Lies Beneath?
What secret longing lies beneath your obligations and commitments? And what are you willing to risk in order to claim it, such that you...
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Dec 19, 2020
How Do You Know What You Value?
What we hold dear is embodied by whom we keep close.
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Dec 16, 2020
What Will it Take?
How many trophies will it take to satiate our egos?
Each achievement brings new challenges, each ending new beginnings...
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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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Dec 5, 2020
Do Your Part
If learned helplessness is a form of homophobic conditioning, then getting informed and empowered is a radical act of resistance.
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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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Nov 20, 2020
Here's What's Beautiful
We each of us get to decide what's beautiful.
Not Hollywood. Not fashion magazines. Not the beauty industry.
It's up to us.
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Nov 18, 2020
You Won't Know Without Asking
Resist your assumptions. Everyone has a story that deserves to be heard.
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Nov 1, 2020
Let It All Go
When we step out of our stories, we start to experience the world as it actually is.
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Oct 25, 2020
The Mysterious Human Heart
Many people experience varying levels of same-sex attraction over the course of their lives. For some of us this attraction is...
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Oct 18, 2020
Footloose and Fancy Free
Living in the moment is not the same as living as if there were no tomorrow. Spontaneity is great, but in most cases richness takes...
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Sep 22, 2020
It's Time to Wake Up
We must strike against our souls' slack and sleeping senses to forge our own awakened hearts.
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Sep 16, 2020
The Thief of Joy
Comparing yourself to others is just your brain's way of saying that you've been experiencing too much joy.
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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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Aug 21, 2020
The Power of Redemption
I believe that there are no enlightened people, only enlightened actions.
In the same way, there are no homophobic people, only...
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Jul 22, 2020
What is Co-dependency?
Some helpful definitions:
Dependence: total reliance
Co-dependence: excessive reliance
Interdependence: mutual reliance...
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Jul 20, 2020
Where to Find the Richness of Life
Life's richness resides beyond the limits of rightness and wrongness.
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