If learned helplessness is a form of homophobic conditioning, then getting informed and empowered is a radical act of resistance.

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

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...

We each of us get to decide what's beautiful. Not Hollywood. Not fashion magazines. Not the beauty industry. It's up to us.

Resist your assumptions. Everyone has a story that deserves to be heard.

When in doubt, create space.

When we step out of our stories, we start to experience the world as it actually is.

Many people experience varying levels of same-sex attraction over the course of their lives. For some of us this attraction is...

Living in the moment is not the same as living as if there were no tomorrow. Spontaneity is great, but in most cases richness takes...

We must strike against our souls' slack and sleeping senses to forge our own awakened hearts.

Comparing yourself to others is just your brain's way of saying that you've been experiencing too much joy.

We are bound by our biases.

Reliving the past is like trying to swim in the same river twice, as the old saying goes. Both you and the river are always changing...

I believe that there are no enlightened people, only enlightened actions. In the same way, there are no homophobic people, only...

Some helpful definitions: Dependence: total reliance Co-dependence: excessive reliance Interdependence: mutual reliance...

Life's richness resides beyond the limits of rightness and wrongness.

To allow others to define us is to participate in our own oppression.

You can't heal what you don't love.

Until we take charge of our lives, we inevitably succumb to its vicissitudes — vacillating between convenience and despair, reacting to...

It’s so tempting to believe that achievement leads to some sort of freedom, as if our life purpose might save us...