Reflection and dysregulation
Reflection and dysregulation Joseph Kindred, MS, MFT Reflection is too dysregulating for them. Healthy reflection requires already-in-place resiliency. The moment we reflect on something painful or difficult, if we are to stay regulated, we are drawing on a set of...
Coping Strategies for the Holiday Season
The holidays can be a time of excitement and connection, but they’re also often a time of heightened stress. Spending time with family, staying in a childhood home, potentially having less access to a therapist or mental health support, along with many other...
#30DaysOfHope: Transgender Day of Remembrance
Dallas Denny (she/her) When I moved to Atlanta in 1989, I soon realized a mass murderer was preying upon trans women of color. Every month or two, another body would be found along a highway with multiple bullet wounds or stabbings. Atlanta’s LGB (no T then!)...
Calling 988: When “Active Rescue” may mean “Active Harm”
Content: Discussion of suicide, depression, police involvement in responding to crisis. Trans and non-binary folks, and especially trans survivors of violence, often experience high levels of depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, and other mental health...
#30DaysOfHope: The Hope that Rises Up Inside me Every Morning
Dr. Antonia E. D'orsay PhD, MS, MA 1) What gives you hope about the future? This is a hard question for me. Because for me, hope is not something I am given, it is something I draw upon. I suppose it is a consequence of all my assorted intersections and resilience,...
Pet: A Book Review
{{Alert: A few spoilers in this review}} Jam lives in a world very different from ours. Lucille, her hometown, long ago experienced a revolution in which “angels” used a variety of ways to get rid of “monsters.” What they were left with is a society whose theme...
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For Black History Month, we celebrate Black trans historymakers of the past and the present. Lorraine Sade Baskerville is a Black trans woman who founded Chicago’s first trans-run, trans-serving social agency called transGenesis to address issues of gender identity, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, sex work, harm reduction, and self-empowerment. She was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2000.
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