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Life and Love In the Q Podcast Silenced Stories: The Ones We Don’t Tell & The Ones We’re Silenced from Sharing

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Jillian Abby

We ALL have a story to tell. We all have life experiences that need processing through sharing and finding connection. Sometimes we silence our own stories– hiding them from being told out of fear, shame, or judgment. And sometimes others silence ou…

Life and Love In the Q Podcast Internalized Homophobia and Identifying our Biases

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Jillian Abby

This is a conversation about internalized homophobia (or heterosexism). It’s the internal biases we carry that shape the way we view ourselves and others. This conversation did not go in the direction Jillian Abby and Treisha Peterson, PhD, originall…

Life and Love In the Q Podcast The importance of knowing your (LGBTQ+) history

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Jillian Abby

October is LGBTQ History Month, which leads to the most common question Jillian Abby hears, “Why is that even a thing?!” This episode is NOT a history lesson. It’s a discovery of why knowing LGBTQ+ history is an important part of growing tolerance, l…

Life and Love In the Q Podcast Coming Out Ain’t Easy

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Jillian Abby

Jillian Abby shares her experience of coming out as a lesbian that stretched nearly a decade. Treisha Peterson, Ph.D. shares her own coming out experience as the parent of a queer child, where her primary community was her religious community. Very d…

Life and Love In the Q Podcast Why Everyone Needs to Know About the Identity Discovery Gap

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Jillian Abby

Dr. Treisha explains the concept of the Identity Discovery Gap and the impact it has on our physical and mental health. Jillian Abby shares how her Grand Canyon-sized identity gap led to self-destructive behavior (and how she closed the gap and recov…

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Is Being Queer A Mental Illness?

Leave a Comment / Allyship, General LGBTQ+, Guidance, Parenting / By Jillian Abby

Is Being Queer a Mental Illness? Dear Queer Abby, My daughter and I are curious about the correlation (or lack thereof) between mental illness and sexual orientation or gender questioning. We have already begun to stay away from people in our family who believe these things are a “sin” (and there were many). However, we …

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