HeyJaredQueer Resilience
Reflections on healing, growth, and resilience from a trans therapist and dad.
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Chicken-alities (opens the original)
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This morning, I spent about 30 minutes sitting outside. Drinking coffee. Watching my chickens scratch and peck around the yard. Whenever I come outside, they run to me. Olive and Sapphire in the lead. Buttercup, one to stay with the group, soon to follow. And Poppy, the most independent of them all will wait to see if there’s a worthwhile reason to run to me first. She seems to know I don’t always come bearing gifts, though Olive and Sapphire are always right at my feet just in case.Anyway, I di
The People We're Afraid to Lose (opens the original)
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It’s been a minute since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve got about six drafts in the works but I’ve been having a hard time completing anything recently. Partly because my caseload at work has nearly doubled within the past six months, and partly because the state of the world for trans folks lately is…exhausting. I’ve noticed a lag in my other favorite trans writers’ posts too. It’s heavy out there now and anything you can do to advocate for us, helps. Anyway, this piece grew out of something I
What if Your Truth Didn't Need a Better Excuse? (opens the original)
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A client recently spent a good chunk of a therapy session trying to figure out how to tell a friend something that was actually fairly simple. Their friend was having a birthday party. An hour’s drive away, in a loud, crowded, dance club. It would be going late into the night. My client is a self-described early-to-bed, early-to-riser, who doesn’t enjoy driving long distances to socialize, feels easily overwhelmed in loud, crowded places. Not to mention being around drunk people and the inevitab
The Slow Shrinking of Ordinary Life (opens the original)
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I recently finalized my decision not to attend one of my favorite professional conferences because of where it is being held this year.It wasn’t an easy decision.Last year’s conference was one of the most meaningful professional experiences I’ve had. I made new friends, deepened old ones, and left feeling more connected to my professional community than I had in a long time.Walking away from that wasn’t something I wanted to do. But here we are.I wrote a respectful letter to the conference presi
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