The shooting at Club Q happened in Colorado Springs this past weekend. I woke up on Sunday morning with the horror of the news. Saddened that another senseless murder has hit our community again. I laid in my wife's arms and cried. Cried that it is this...
https://youtu.be/q99RzSovgA8 Survival Plan For The Holidays! Join Barb Rowlandson and I as we give survival tips for navigating the holidays when you are coming out and/or getting divorced!Reach out to Barb if you would like to a hand-out for the event....
Below my signature line of my email I have the quote: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” It is from the poem The Summer Day by the renowned poet Mary Oliver. Mary Oliver’s poetry spoke to me long before I came out as a lesbian....
https://youtu.be/wvZfuuVHUhE Christine Gardner Terpening is an artist, an entrepreneur, a mother, and also a late-in-life lesbian. Christine was born and raised in the rural community of Vermontville, Michigan. Raised in a time when she knew something was “shamefully”...
https://youtu.be/2MSc-diu0io Michelle identifies as a member of the LGBTQIA+ family as intersex. In this podcast she shares her story of finding out that she is intersex at 15 and how her family navigated this time. After the death of her young son she realized that...
https://youtu.be/yNUOrmoHDvk Mary is a transformational travel junkie and explorer of inner and outer landscapes. She loves to discover what lights people up and help move them in that direction. As a connector, reflector, motivator and reverent passenger of this...
https://youtu.be/9HYuZ0psEsE Ash France (she/her) is a somatic practitioner who works one on one with queer women who are coming out later in life and are longing to create secure relationships as they identify & heal unhealthy relationship patterns.Ash is...
By Marissa Mitchell The word lifestyle is often used to describe what it means to be LGBTQIA+ in this world. My friend Marissa Mitchell has written a great piece that captures many of my feelings. Especially the “record scratch” moment. I first...
https://youtu.be/UIG-VJ0i3qU In this coming out journey we are required to find our courage again and again. It is not a one time static event, but something we have to chose. How can we chose to be courageous if everything we know as women tell us differently? How do...
https://youtu.be/p7G3_rh-BCs Internalized homophobia, heterosexism and compulsory heterosexuality are real issues and the reasons why this journey can be so hard! Learning about it and acknowledging it when it pops up can make all the difference in the world! I am a...
https://youtu.be/x2x7a-r4tds Join coming out coach Anne-Marie Zanzal and Tonda McKay for their next Facebook Live event as they talk about how to approach coming out to children of all ages. Anne-Marie Zanzal is a coming out coach, chaplain, bereavement counselor,...
https://youtu.be/9N2TcbRyaFI Join me, Anne-Marie Zanzal, and Tonda McKay as we discuss how to find peace as we navigate the choppy waters of divorce. Divorce is a turbulent time for most, with heightened feelings, triggers, anger, sadness and radical change for all...