When you hear intimacy, what’s the first image that comes to mind? Two bodies intertwined between the sheets? Stop-everything moments of soul-gazing?

We’ve all been there. Feeling as if you are being pulled in 20 different relational directions while juggling five sticky life circumstances all the while trying to appear as if you don’t have a care in the world.

We’ve all been there. The heat of the moment. The push-all-the-buttons confrontation that makes you want to yell, cry, run and hide (or maybe all the above).

Not enough of something. Too much of something. Why can’t you be more this, that or the other?

“No might make them angry, but it will make you free. If no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger.”

As an LGBTQ+ affirmative therapist, I am often asked: “What does that look like in respect to other forms of counseling?”

Coming Out: A metaphor used to describe the oftentimes complicated, multilayered and lifelong process of acknowledging, accepting and/or sharing one’s LGBTQ+ identity with friends, family and others.

“If you put blue and red together, it makes purple. Purple is not referred to as half red, half blue. Purple is its own color. The same applies to bisexuality.” –Unknown

Imagine This: ​You wake up tomorrow morning, and everyone you encounter is suddenly calling you the wrong name.