️‍🌈 In honor of pride month - Recognizing LGBTQIA+, People of Color and ​People with Disabilities

Coming Forward

I hope this opens the door for many more LGBTQ episodes to come for the month of June and beyond. Thank you to this guest for bring your family photo, for sharing poetry, for sharing your story and for simply being you. Honoring this guest and making this experience their own. You shine so bright.

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High level mentions:

• Workplace discrimination
• Destigmatizing therapy
• Importance of LGBTQ inclusive therapists
• Poem shared: Blank Page, within Limitless book of poems by Danna Faulds
• New York Insight OUT Refuge: LGBTQI Sangha (4th Wednesday of each month | 6:30-8:30pm)

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**Support and resources from NAMI (more within articles):

• The American Psychological Association (APA) provides countless educational and support resources on a range of LGBTQ topics
• The Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues in Counseling delivers educational and support resources for LGBTQ individuals, as well as promoting competency on LGBTQ issues for counseling professionals
• The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists offers numerous resources for LGBT individuals experiencing mental health conditions and psychiatric professionals with LGBT clients
• The National Center for Transgender Equality offers resources for transgender individuals, including information on the right to access health care
• The Trevor Project is a support network for LGBTQ youth providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention, including a 24-hour text line (Text “START” to 678678) -
• The LGBT National Help Center offers confidential peer support connections for LGBT youth, adults and seniors including phone, text and online chat
• The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's Provider Directory is a search tool that can locate a LGBTQ-inclusive health care provider

ALL mentioned above here: https://www.nami.org/Find-Support/LGBTQ

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Articles mentioned and more:

• Trauma-Informed Care: Addressing Mental Health Risk Factors (National LGBT Health Education Center) http://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/wp-content/uploads/Trauma-Informed-Care.pdf
• Trauma and PTSD in LGBTQ Individuals (Trauma Psychology - American Psychological Association) https://www.apatraumadivision.org/files/56.pdf
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  https://www.nami.org/Find-Support/LGBTQ
• Sexual Assault and the LGBTQ Community (Human Rights Campaign)
  https://www.hrc.org/resources/sexual-assault-and-the-lgbt-community
• LGBTQ Youth (National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
  https://www.nctsn.org/what-is-child-trauma/populations-at-risk/lgbtq-youth
• Survivors of the Sexual Revolution the Media Will Ignore During Gay Pride Month
  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/02/survivors-of-the-sexual-revolution-the-news-media-will-ignore-during-gay-pride-month/
• Does Maltreatment in Childhood Affect Sexual Orientation in Adulthood?
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535560/
• When Religion Leads to Trauma (The New York Times)
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/well/mind/religion-trauma-lgbt-gay-depression-anxiety.html
• Sen. Kaine introduces bill to protect LGBT kids from child abuse
  https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/04/09/sen-kaine-introduces-bill-to-protect-lgbt-kids-from-child-abuse/

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