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...
Emotional Connections
Emotional Connections A Review of “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” Children are born with emotions, but we aren’t born with the ability to identify and talk about them. That’s something caregivers must do:...