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Why Your Huge Breakthroughs Don’t Stick

I really do share your excitement about the huge breakthrough you just had. Something new and exciting has clearly happened for you, and I’m in full support of the change! Why, then, you ask, do I not seem as excited … Continue reading

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How to Flirt (with everything)

I’ve seen you. You always want to connect with people, but you’re not always sure how to do it. Sometimes it just happens. You find that, somehow, one of you has invited the other to play. Without being serious, without … Continue reading

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Why Men Are So Obsessed With Sex

(Originally published in K. Kay, J. Nagle & B. Gould (Eds.) Male lust: Pleasure, power, and transformation (pp. 215-222). New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000.) Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you? Not knowing can … Continue reading

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The Grief Cheatsheet: 6 Essential Reminders About How to Grieve

Grieving is our natural response when someone dies. In cultural communities where crying is discouraged and endings are not always properly honored, we have had to rediscover for ourselves how to fully and honestly grieve. The inspiring response of my … Continue reading

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Don’t Trust Your Feelings: Somatics and the Pre/Trans Fallacy

It’s easy for counselors, and the people we counsel, to get stuck in our heads. Counseling as we know it originated as “the talking cure”. Over the generations, counselors have discovered how to use dialogue as a powerful medium for … Continue reading

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Openness to Experience

Have you had any firsts this week? Y’know, firsts: things you’ve never done before, new experiences, new experiments. We’re at the beginning of a new year, a perfect time to remember the importance of firsts. Firsts help you to cultivate … Continue reading

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Oppression 101

Overcoming oppression is one of the primary things that clients need your help to do. They may not realize it, because they may not understand yet the ways they’ve been hurt and limited by oppression. That makes it all the … Continue reading

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Which Story Do You Want To Tell?

We come to understand the experiences we have, even as we’re having them, through the stories we tell about them. Stories help us make meaning of what’s happening. We are made of stories. Life is an ongoing choose-your-own-adventure story. Thinking … Continue reading

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Making Friends With Your Inner Critic

Human beings are complex organisms. I mean, I don’t know when the last time was that you tried to design a self-aware, interactive, embodied consciousness with the capacity to to learn and evolve and alter its environment, but it’s not … Continue reading

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Why You’re Really Here

Why are you here? No, I mean why are you really here? There are two ways you could take this question. The first is, “Why have you come back to check out this blog again? What are you hoping you’ll … Continue reading

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