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Sexual orientation sometimes gets defined solely by who you enjoy sleeping with. Rather than reduce queer identity down to something about sex or body parts, I want to recognize it as the huge, beautiful, expansive, all-encompassing experience of being in the world it is. So I’m going to focus on what I love about being gay that has nothing to do with actual gay relationships. And it’s still a long, fun list.

My primary job as a therapist is to teach awareness and compassion. Awareness and compassion are the paving stones of all great religious paths; these are fundamentally spiritual capacities.

Here are twelve somewhat unrelated lessons or ideas I've been musing on during the past month, when I've been out of work due to a chronic illness flare. 1 - There is a difference between resting for productivity and resting for healing. Resting for productivity—the kind of rest that garners a terse, grudging approval from our late-stage capitalist culture—is stolen in tiny bits and pieces; the goal is to restore the body-machine to a functional capacity so the work can conti

I have been resting. I have been resting hard, resting audaciously, resting with gusto. I have been giving myself permission to do less....