A recent post on Trans Survivors, “Mindfulness Meditation for Trans Trauma Survivors” (https://trans-survivors.com/2020/02/28/mindfulness-meditation-for-trans-trauma-survivors/), gives specific and detailed advice for trauma survivors on how to meditate safely. Would...
Therapists don’t know everything. Sometimes they are generalists, and sometimes they have focused their training on very particular techniques, illnesses, and challenges their clients might face: depression, anxiety, trauma, personality disorders, CBT, DBT, or EMDR....
Many wounds heal by themselves, with little intervention: a scraped knee, a papercut, a strained muscle. Some emotional wounds (a slight by a stranger, a break with the past) are like this too—healed, as the adage goes, by time. But other forms of emotional harm are...
Way back when I was in school, I learned that once people become adults, it’s all downhill brain-wise. Thank goodness, we have learned better! Brains change throughout life, and we have learned a lot about how to make changes we want to make. This time of social...
This blog post is part of a series of posts on trans survivors’ experiences of the pandemic. Katie (she/her) is a white, rich, trans girl survivor currently living in occupied O’odham Jewed (Tucson). Please describe your context and how you’ve coped with...
This is one of a three-part series of interviews with trans survivors about their experiences in Coronavirus pods. Pods can be defined as “small, self-contained networks of people who limit their non-distanced social interaction to one another—in other words, they’re...
