Investigations, Illuminations & Inspirations

 

Stephanie Winn, aka some therapist, muses about the inner wilderness, relationships, social issues, personal transformation – and suddenly finding herself a maverick in the spotlight.

 
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Is Therapeutic Neutrality a Thing of the Past?

Only within the container of a society in which we mostly agree on the boundaries to what constitutes basically acceptable human behavior within some normative range can there exist enough freedom to play with choices that can be viewed as equally morally acceptable.

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The Breast Binding to Mastectomy Pipeline

To better understand the harms of breast-binding, we need to understand the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions — and why modern gender dysphoria is a whole lot like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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ROGD Awareness Day: Welcoming Home the Girly-Girls

Some of us have been witnessing this trend: a growing number of quite-young women, sometimes even minors under 18, are coming out as detransitioning or desisting, who are straight, and quite feminine, or female-typical, by nature.

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A Representative Exchange

As U.S. Citizens, we reach out to our representatives in hopes we may have an open dialogue with them. Sometimes, a representative exchange falls on deaf ears. Recently a concerned mental health provider experienced the uncomfortable feeling of her voice being shut out

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Waiting for Love

Taking care of your heart and cultivating your character when detransitioned and single

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Dear Laura, part 2

On navigating new relationships as a detransitioner when you’re still quite vulnerable

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Dear Laura, part 1

How can a detransitioned woman grieve the loss of her breasts while reclaiming her relationship with femininity and womanhood?

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What’s the Harm in Affirming?

Therapy trainees are inundated with messaging about the supposed virtues of “gender affirming care.” But where can therapists go to learn about the drawbacks of this model, and the unique needs of those who have been harmed by it?

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