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Feb 6

When All Else Fails

Jan 27

What Lies Beneath

What's underneath our urgency to change (or "improve") is often a desperate, driving self-hatred, whose antidote is patience and...

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Jan 24

Find Regular Respite

Where do you seek refuge?

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Jan 22

Pay Yourself First

Queer people can afford joy.

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Dec 30, 2020

There's Just No Denying

It's all so sacred...

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Dec 29, 2020

The Great Outdoors

Where do you go to experience the world's wildness?

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Dec 21, 2020

Let It All Go

Who are we without our stories?

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Dec 13, 2020

Wear What You Want

Makeup has no gender.

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Dec 9, 2020

Loving Yourself

Today let's do one sweet thing, just for for ourselves, and then abide in the wisdom of that singular joy.

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Dec 8, 2020

Breathe Easy

Rest in the calm clarity of dawn, as it wipes clean the cold doubts of dusk.

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Dec 6, 2020

The Power of We

Learned helplessness in the queer community rears its ugly head in many ways: idle drug use, doom scrolling, panic dating, addiction...

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Dec 3, 2020

Find the Source

Go where your body feels small, but your soul feels big.

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Dec 1, 2020

Be Best

Being the most "you" that you can be is the only superlative that matters.

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Nov 29, 2020

Fear is a Teacher

We cultivate resilience by going to the places that scare us.

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Nov 23, 2020

Life is Meant to be Lived

When we lock ourselves away from life's wonders, we miss the wild world calling us home. So get out there and have an adventure!

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Nov 21, 2020

The Masks We Wear

At a young age, many gay people learn to dissociate as a matter of self-preservation -- hiding who we are for the sake of survival...

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Nov 15, 2020

The Road to Recovery

Create space for grace, and room for redemption.

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Nov 12, 2020

Sharing is Caring

The sweetness of life is meant to be shared.

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Nov 9, 2020

Always A Good Choice

When in doubt, create space.

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Nov 6, 2020

The Real Truth

You are essential.

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When All Else Fails

What Lies Beneath

Find Regular Respite

Pay Yourself First

There's Just No Denying

The Great Outdoors

Let It All Go

Wear What You Want

Loving Yourself

Breathe Easy

The Power of We

Find the Source

Be Best

Fear is a Teacher

Life is Meant to be Lived

The Masks We Wear

The Road to Recovery

Sharing is Caring

Always A Good Choice

The Real Truth

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