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"Recognition of Humanity should be the central focus of Human Existence" ~ Paulo Freire
"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
Or Click Here for a link to their website and talk/text links or click the logo at left.
WARNING!!!
The Trump Administration cut funding for the
specific LGBTQ+ part of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Beginning in JULY 2025
If you are LGBTQ+, you will not receive the quality of the previous (specialized and appropriate) support through the 988 line and will be better supported by calling or texting other crisis support lines
Here are some options for other LGBTQ+ Suicide and Crisis support:
The Trevor Project: Offers crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ young people (ages 13-24). They provide a lifeline (1-866-488-7386), text support (Text START to 678-678), and online chat, available 24/7.
Trans Lifeline: A peer support hotline run by and for transgender people, offering direct emotional and financial support, available 24/7. The US number is 1-877-565-8860 and the Canadian number is 1-877-330-6366.
LGBT National Hotline: Provides peer counseling, information, and resources for callers of all ages. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-888-843-4564.
LGBT National Youth Talkline: Specifically for youth up to age 25, offering information, support, and local resources. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-800-246-7743.
5 Tools for Identity Shifts
5 Tools for Identity Shifts
What Can Neuro-Tools do for YOU?
What Can Neuro-Tools do for YOU?
Working with a Therapist is extremely helpful when going through Identity Shifts
Working with a Therapist is extremely helpful when going through Identity Shifts
To find and maintain stability when experiencing identity shifts it is imperative that you work with a Therapist's guidance, support and monitoring. Click HERE to find one in your area.
Created and Verified by Psychology Today.
This website has SO many AMAZING resources, which are broken down in clear and usable ways, to help you that is safe and inclusive.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info, but also has more info if you scroll up. There you will find links to finding whatever resource you need.
Toxic Positivity: What is it & How to Avoid it?
Toxic Positivity: What is it & How to Avoid it?
What is toxic positivity? How do people engaging in toxic positivity impact people who are struggling with any issue? Learn how to identify and avoid toxic positivity in yourself and in others. Additionally this discusses what to say to people who approach you with toxic positivity.
Beware the Grifters!
Beware the Grifters!
Grifters abound in the "healing" profession and community. Watch this video for some information on how to avoid those who are preying on your vulnerability, pain, suffering, difficulty and/or struggle. Be CAUTIOUS with your heart, mind and psyche - treat it with the care it deserves with choosing who you work with.
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
The current administration is making choices that make all LGBTQ+ people LESS safe. This is my advice for his second term.
From a Mother Who Knows the Risk: My strongest recommendation for parents of LGBTQ children
From a Mother Who Knows the Risk: My strongest recommendation for parents of LGBTQ children
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children in Conservative Areas & Those Who CARE About Protecting Them
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children in Conservative Areas & Those Who CARE About Protecting Them
NeuroMeditations for Identity Shifts:
*BE = Brain Exercise
SAFETY must come FIRST
Preparation for the Cave of Safety - How to Create YOURS
Preparation for the Cave of Safety - How to Create YOURS
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This practice increases feelings of inner safety, and is helpful when you need a buffer from the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work.
Music: Safe and Loved by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
What is Safety REALLY?
What is Safety REALLY?
For more information, go to the SAFETY page
Interrupt Activation of Distress
BE = Brain Exercise
Molly's Dancing the Cingulate NeuroMeditation
Use this practice to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Limitless Focus - 40 Hz by Study Sonic Focus on YouTube
This practice guides you through shifting your attention inward to build connection with and awareness of what is happening in the body (interoception), to increase awareness of nervous system state, which can help you determine which tools, or interventions, to turn to. Regular practice increases your ability to listen and notice.
Music: Beyond by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Anchoring Bi-Lateral NeuroMeditation
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Breathing with the Tree of Life NeuroMeditation
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Basic Info on Focus Neuro-Tools & When to Use Them
Basic Info on Focus Neuro-Tools & When to Use Them
Focus practices interrupt the amygdala and the cascade of activation. Then we can restore calm to the system. Focus also balances the mind and lifts us when we are low - especially when using AWE as focus.
Increase Sense of Being Anchored and Grounded
BE = Brain Exercise
Anchoring Bi-Lateral NeuroMeditation
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Connecting with AWE NeuroMeditation
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Being the Mindful Mountain NeuroMeditation
This practice anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Body, Mind Soul 6 by Paradise Tonight on YouTube
Breathing with the Tree of Life NeuroMeditation
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Watch for the GEMs
Watch for the GEMs
Increase Connection with and Compassion for Self and Others
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
Weave Yourself INTO Life
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Open Heart: Being the Tree & the Forest
Weave Yourself INTO Life
This practice uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection. Weave yourself into life.
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Mind, Body, Soul 6 YouTube
Connecting with AWE NeuroMeditation
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Using Neuro-Tools for Connection
This practice is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for the self and for all others sharing existing on the planet right now.
Music: Let Your Soul Speak by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
The Law of Kindness for Connection and Compassion
The Law of Kindness
The Law of Kindness
Living by this law increases your connection with, and compassion for, yourself and others. If you choose one law to live by, let it be this! Helps you and helps the world.
To Quiet the Mind and System for Sleep
BE = Brain Exercise
Quiet the Mind for Sleep NeuroMeditation
This practice uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep.
Music: Peaceful Mind Meditation 7 by Paradise Tonight on YouTube
Other Helpful NeuroMeditations
** These are being reworked - will be up again soon!
Accepting What IS
Accepting What IS
This meditation helps you to gently stretch into acceptance of things that may be difficult
Music: Dive into Tranquility - Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Mindfully Holding the Unknown
This meditation aids you in accepting and facing the unknown through connecting with your core immovable self and anchoring into your strength.
Music: Calm Mountains by Fantasia Echoes
Holding Both When You Feel Conflicting Things
Holding Both When You Feel Conflicting Things
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Music: Krishna’s Harmonious Flute by Buddha’s Lounge
Ouroboros for Letting Go & Shedding the Past
** Caution: This Meditation is not suitable for people living with, or experiencing, suicidal ideation **
Using imagery of Ouroboros, this meditation supports you through times of great change, growth and/or transformation. It assists you through your process of, and your acceptance of, letting go and shedding the past - moving you forward into this new life phase.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
When Identity Shifts Lead to Depression
5 Tools for Working with the Ebb & Flow of Depression
Meditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
Meditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
Being reworked - will be up again soon!
This meditation assists you in moving through the waters of Depression which ebb and flow.
Music: Bamboo Garden by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Go to the Depression page for more information on Neuro-Tools for working with depression and depressive cycles
Meditation for When Grief Shatters Your Sense of Self or Identity -
Being reworked and will be up soon!
Open Heart Meditation for When Grief Rocks Your World
Open Heart Meditation for When Grief Rocks Your World
This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
Holding Joy AND Sorrow
Holding Joy AND Sorrow
This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
When Guilt or Regret are Connected to Your Identity Shifts
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
Being reworked and will be up again soon!
This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
My Favorite Meditations from the NeuroMeditation Institute for Identity Shifts:
If your Identity Shift is a result of your life changing radically as a result of Loss, go to the GRIEF and LOSS page for more helpful info specific to the impacts of Grief/Loss.
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory & Why do they Matter to YOU?
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Go to the Safety, Know Thyself, Connection and NATURE pages for other helpful Neuro-Tools
Get Into NATURE
Go to the NATURE page for more information and meditations for connecting with NATURE
The Power and Impact of Nature
The Power and Impact of Nature
Finding Special Spots in Unlikely Places & Being SAFE in Nature
Finding Special Spots in Unlikely Places & Being SAFE in Nature
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Temperament, Personality and Perception
Why Understanding Your Personality is Helpful
Why Understanding Your Personality is Helpful
Take time to answer the questions slowly and honestly for accuracy. They offer a breakdown of a buttload of very interesting and helpful information that can help you gain insight into yourself.
What Is Your Temperament?
What Is Your Temperament?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
I am currently focused on creating the following self-paced online courses:
Neuro-Tools for Vagus Nerve & Nervous System Regulation
Adaptive Resilience: Neuro-Tools for Stress Regulation
Interrupting Anxiety: Neuro-Tools for Calm State Regulation
Shifting State: Neuro-Tools for Depressive Cycles
Reach out to me if you would like to be notified when they are ready, or to request one of the other courses listed on the available courses page.
Learn more about the ways each style of NeuroMeditation impact the brain, or how to determine which style is right for you!
They have a free survey, free short classes and longer courses, trainings and certification available.
Remember to go to the BEGIN HERE page and the Other Helpful Resources page for more information and tools which can be helpful for people living with Identity Shifts. Go to the Mindfulness and the Quiet Mind page for more meditations to calm the racing mind that can come with Identity Issues.
If you have a transgender child this show is a must watch. Also connect with the Transparent groups in your area or online!
Transparent
Transparent
Currently on Amazon Prime
Also if you are a parent of a transgender child - connect with Transparent groups in your area or online! They offer support and resources that no other group can!
THIS is a Critical Resource for All LGBTQ+ People - Young AND Old!
"The internet paved a great medium for LGBTQ+ people worldwide to connect and share their stories. Sadly, the digital world isn’t the safe space people hoped it would be. LGBTQ+ members are at an increased risk of cyber threats and online harassment."
A Couple of Helpful Books for Identity Shifts Associated with Gender
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
ISBN: 0312224796
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender and Archaeology
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender and Archaeology
by Rosemary Joyce
ISBN: 9780500051535
Videos on the Science and NeuroBiology of Gender
The Facts About Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
Brain Gender
Neurobiology of Trans-Sexuality
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