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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAascgaGfU On this week's episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, we're getting some good energy flowing with Linda Moore! Linda Moore's vocation in...
Catalyst relationships have a way of turning our lives upside down. In the LGBTQIA+ community a catalyst is a person who helps us realize that we might not be as straight as we thought we were. A...
https://youtu.be/3uuJ2__dL-Y Ready for some laughter, tears, and lots of wise, loving advice? Our final Share the Love February episode of the Coming Out & Beyond podcast has dropped, and it's a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTJuJG9_W8 We're sharing the love in February with podcast listeners! This episode is all about finding, celebrating, and cultivating joy after coming out later in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwzxRkd2Fo We're sharing the love in February with podcast listeners! This episode is dedicated with love to all of you in the late-in-life community who are...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3Ia__c2dQ We're sharing the love in February with podcast listeners! If you're someone in the late-in-life community who needs some loving encouragement about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKqtsNifVkE&feature=youtu.be Joan Alexander is a Spiritual Director & Supervisor who came out as a lesbian in her mid-forties. Twenty years later, she is here...
https://youtu.be/URiNibi0SAQ Stephannie Weikert is a Certified Yoga Therapist and creator of the Make Peace with Stress method. She wants to live in a world where all women flourish because she...
By Barb Rowlandson In 2017, I joined the Alphabet Mafia, and let me tell you: flipping from the straight world into the Queer world is WILD. Up until my gay reckoning, I'd been with the same man for...
https://youtu.be/QpTJuJG9_W8 Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson as we discuss finding JOY!!!! in the coming out journey. In the beginning we know it feels very difficult to find joy in the...
https://youtu.be/abwzxRkd2Fo Join Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson as we discuss grief In the coming out journey. In the beginning we know it feels very difficult and we sometimes grieve many...
https://youtu.be/mqgbQ0YMbsw Join Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson as we discuss internalized homophobia or heterosexism. What is this? Internalized Homophobia is when LGBTQIA+ people listen to...
https://youtu.be/3n3Ia__c2dQ *Before Coming Out Join Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson as we discuss divorce. Are you someone in the middle of coming out and you realize that you will need to...
https://youtu.be/XM8xXL-y8ZE Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson talk about the five things they wised they knew before coming out. Day one is how to find community! Lots of great suggestions and...
This December it was six years ago I left my marriage of twenty-seven years to my now ex-husband. My life has changed in so many ways since that time. For the last four and a half years I have...
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...
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...
This Tuesday, October 11, 2022, is National Coming Out Day. As a coming out coach I get a lot of questions about this day. If you don’t know the history of this day here is a great...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...