Posted on March 31, 2022
by Janna
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Every American politician who’s currently trying to take away transgender rights, with special vitriol aimed at our youth, needs to sit face-to-face with a well educated mom who affirms her trans kid. Let them try to look in her eyes, on her turf, maybe… Continue Reading “Trans Youth Affirmation is Not Abuse”
Category: Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: affirmation, ally, child abuse, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, gender dysphoria, mama bear, neglect, psychological abuse, trans, trans parent, trans rights, trans youth, transgender identity
Posted on March 20, 2022
by Janna
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What’s your relationship with approval? I ask because I had an epiphany this week. To summarize its cause, I finished Will Smith’s autobiography, WILL, wherein he wrote about his decades-long struggle to gain the approval of others: in his most personal relationships, among friends,… Continue Reading “Whose Permission Do You Need?”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Books & Resources, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse survivors, affirmation, approval, autobiographies, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, gaslighting, healing, intimate partner violence, love languages, manipulation, narcissistic abuse, permission, starting over after abuse, survivor, validation, Will Smith
WOMAN, DETERMINED 