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Conscious Love: Embracing My True Self and Guiding Parents on Supporting Transgender Children
My journey to self-realization and identity affirmation has been a path illuminated by conscious love – first coming out as a lesbian at age 14, and then as transgender at age 49. These milestones in my life weren't just about revealing who I am but also about the profound understanding and acceptance I sought, particularly…
A New Kind of Mental Health Awareness: Fostering Mental Health While Practicing Physical Distancing
Last week, I was reading a news story about a group of teenagers from New Zealand who were stranded in the Caribbean at the beginning of the pandemic, having just completed a study-abroad sailing program. The educators in charge decided that the best course of action was to sail back to New Zealand with the…
Do Insecure Moms Raise Insecure Children?
With the end of the school year fast approaching, I thought this would be the year that I would make some mom friends. You know: Shuffle our children off after school for play dates, go out to dinner every once in a while, get tipsy laughing over the school principal, maybe go for walks in the mornings… but it didnt happen.
Fostering Hope: Deciding an Adoption Path
Back in June, I had great plans to start a series of articles about our journey to expand our family.
Fostering Hope: Beginning the Journey to Expand Our Family
Lets adopt. Those were two words I never thought Id hear my husband say. When we were engaged, Id told him I wanted six kids and would be willing to adopt to have as many as we could afford. My cousin was adopted, and I couldnt imagine my life without him.