TRIGGER WARNING: this post will be discussing how to cope with and practice psychological/emotional safety in the face of traumatic material or hearing the traumas of others. In particular, I will reference the Epstein files in very vague detail (referencing their...

There’s been a meme floating around on the internet that talks about the “hardest things to say in the English language.” In some versions of this joke, words like "Worcestershire sauce” and “rural” are front and center. In other versions, things like “I was wrong,”...

I recently wrote a post about tips for surviving complex, unsafe, and unhealthy family dynamics surrounding the holidays, but I wanted to call attention to how some of these dynamics can show up uniquely for LGBTQIA+ folx. Family tension, wounds, and disconnection can...

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, something else, or nothing at all, this time of year we are bombarded with messages about family and spending time with them. Advertisements showing happy, “traditional” families sitting around a...

I remember when I was a kid and my family first introduced major technology to our household. I was thrilled at the idea I could go online and find any information I wanted (granted, the internet was much younger and less advanced then, and the thing I was most...

Recently, I’ve been listening to an audiobook version of The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. While I have a lot of thoughts about the book, something I listened to recently has been rattling around in my brain, especially when I think about the work that I do. In...