Ideas for normative culture misfits …and everyone else.

Month: June 2024

  • Queer Affirmation

    Queer Affirmation

    By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ June 2024 Actively Affirming Your Queer Identity I’m rounding out pride month this year with some thoughts about queer affirmation. With the amount of hatred and harm we continue to witness against the LGBTQIA+ community, we need to counteract it with fervid affirmation.   Affirmation of queer identity… Read more

  • Queer NRE

    Queer NRE

    By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ June 2024 Managing New Relationship Energy in Queer Relationships New relationship energy aka NRE describes the initial “honeymoon phase” of relationships. Often it’s characterized by intense joy, euphoria or excitement, and it can become all-consuming rather quickly! We may find ourselves growing more and more infatuated with the… Read more

  • Conscientious Pride

    Conscientious Pride

    By Melisa De Seguirant, LPC, LMFT ~ June 2024 Approaching Pride Month Conscientiously Pride is a wonderful time for queer people to congregate, affirm and celebrate the marginalized parts of ourselves. It’s more than just a party, though, it’s an activist movement. Martha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera were both key figures in the gay… Read more