LGBTQIA+ Stories and Insights

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This is a curated collection of recent interviews, stories, and insights from the LGBTQIA+ community, including expert advice and personal stories, so you can feel seen, heard, and inspired to live your best life despite the obstacles you face everyday.

Only the most recent and popular stories are listed here. If you’d like more, check out the entire LGBTQIA+ playlist.

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Health & Wellness

How Trauma Shapes Identity: From Shame and Survival to Healing and Integration

Health & Wellness

How much of your identity was shaped by who you are, and how much by what you had to do to survive? Psychotherapist Lisa Arrigo explores trauma, shame, the nervous system, gender, addiction, relapse, and what healing and integration can look like when you begin reconnecting with yourself.

Health & Wellness

Personal Development, Society & Culture

When Assimilation Isn’t the Goal: Finding Your Own Identity

Personal Development, Society & Culture

What if belonging doesn’t require becoming someone else? Delanyo Mensah explores growing up between cultures, the pressure to meet expectations, and the difference between adapting to the world and losing yourself in it.

Personal Development, Society & Culture

Relationships

Surviving Narcissistic Abuse: What It Feels Like, How You Leave, and What Comes After

Relationships

What happens when compassion turns into self-abandonment? Saige Whitney shares how manipulation, guilt, and coercive control pulled her into an unhealthy relationship, and what helped her finally leave, reclaim her boundaries, and begin healing from narcissistic abuse.

Relationships

How to Leave Toxic Relationships and Rebuild Your Life

Relationships

What do you do when someone you love is the person causing you the most harm? Kim Daigle shares how she learned to recognize manipulation and walk away from toxic relationships.

Relationships

Society & Culture, Health & Wellness

Why Sex Workers Need Judgment-Free Therapy

Society & Culture, Health & Wellness

Many sex workers aren't looking for advice about their jobs. They're looking for a therapist who can see them as a human being first. Dr. Miro Gudelsky discusses mental health, stigma, relationships, and the unique challenges sex workers face when seeking support.

Society & Culture, Health & Wellness

Society & Culture

When Gender Transition Doesn’t Fit the Expected Story

Society & Culture

Winter Breedlove opens up about gender transition, religious trauma, HIV stigma, heartbreak, addiction, and learning how to feel comfortable in her own body after decades of shame and survival.

Society & Culture

Feeling Seen in a World That Wasn’t Built for You

Society & Culture

What does it mean to feel seen in a world that wasn’t built for you? We explore identity, belonging, and why feeling seen can feel complicated, risky, and deeply personal.

Society & Culture

Social Justice Movements and How We Can Show Up

Society & Culture

Social justice movements aren’t separate from everyday life. They’re shaped by it. Timothy Hughes explores how history, empathy, and daily choices influence real change and what it actually means to show up.

Society & Culture

The Rule of Law is in Danger

Society & Culture

Brandi Fleck and Emerson Wright unpack the chilling realities of today’s political and legal climate, from targeted executive orders and academic freedom under threat to the quiet erosion of civil liberties and legal protections. They explore how lawyers actually work behind the scenes to uphold society—and why now more than ever, everyday citizens need to pay attention and take action.

Society & Culture

Why Practicing Law Doesn’t Feel the Same Anymore

Society & Culture

For years, many people believed the law was steadily moving us forward. That assumption is getting harder to defend. A law professor shares what’s changed, what still matters, and how they think about the role of the legal system now.

Society & Culture

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LGBTQIA+ Stories and Insights

Collection

This is a curated collection of interviews, stories, and insights from the LGBTQIA+ community, including expert advice and personal stories, so you can feel seen, heard, and inspired to live your best life despite the obstacles you face everyday.

Collection

Personal Development, Society & Culture

Understanding Your Emotional Patterns with the Enneagram

Personal Development, Society & Culture

If you’re familiar with the Enneagram through pop culture, you might be using it as a personality test to gain more insight into what makes you tick and how you act. However, guest Micky ScottBey Jones shares that it’s not just a personality test. We're talking what Enneagram really is, it's impact, rise in popularity, how it helps you feel seen, and how to practically apply it to your life.

Personal Development, Society & Culture

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