It has been shown in many studies that while short lasting fight and flight responses can help the immune system, longer chronic responses can hurt the immune system. We are currently living in a time that is causing many to have stress, anxiety and depression – all of which hurt the immune system and can make […]
Your life may have been turned upside down. You may have had to move back home or you might be working from home or even lost your job. We as humans tend to like structure, things we can count on and definitely not change we have no control over. We cannot control many things right […]
Sometimes a diagram does it best: You can actually be any combination on this chart. For example, I have female anatomy, I have feminine gender expression (I wear dresses and skirts a lot), I have a tomboy gender identity – so somewhere between middle and female and my sexual orientation is that I find women […]
Over the coming days/weeks, I will be talking about the partners of those who are transgender and how it affects them. Being a partner of a transgender person is a unique situation. Many therapists don’t understand the issues such as raising children, dealing with dysphoria, and the partner’s own personal identity. If they were together […]
Many of my friends and clients who are transgender, constantly have to decide whether they need to come out. There is the initial coming out to family, friends, work, doctors, therapists and anyone dealing with identity documents. When they meet people as their authentic self, there becomes a question of whether they need to disclose […]
Probably the number 1 thing clients who are transgender or gender expansive come to me for is hormone letters (a letter from me to refer the client for gender confirmation hormone therapy). I have some pretty strong beliefs on hormone letters – mainly that I am NOT a gatekeeper. I am a member of WPATH (World […]
Living Stealth – Hidden in Plain Sight was written by me in February 2014 – I have a new defined “stealth” now for my husband and I. I am open in my professional world, but anywhere else we are stealth. You may notice my name is not under the title. You may notice my name is […]
Last year, I finally figured out a New Year’s Resolution that I couldn’t break. It is to be good to yourself. So this is how it goes: My only resolution this year is to be good to myself. This mean to be good to myself physically, spiritually, mentally, socially, psychologically and in any other way […]