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I’m Transgender. But Trust Me, I’m Just As Surprised As You Are.

February 11, 2018 Sam Dylan Finch 12 Comments

I remember being wheeled into the operating room and thinking, "Am I seriously doing this?"

LGBTQ/LGBTQIA/transgender

In 2018, let’s stop pretending cis women are the only ones having periods. Seriously.

December 30, 2017December 30, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 9 Comments

We need gender inclusivity when we're talking about menstruation.

Mental Health/self-care

15 Mental Health Resolutions For The New Year

December 29, 2017December 29, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 6 Comments

It's powerful to begin a new year by saying, "I'm choosing me." 

LGBTQ/Mental Health/self-care/transgender

For The Mentally Ill Folks Who Didn’t Think They’d Make It This Year

November 30, 2017December 2, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 19 Comments

I'm hoping the person who needs this will read it.

transgender

Maybe being transgender wasn’t a mistake.

November 30, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 4 Comments

Maybe the pain of being transgender is not random chaos in the universe, but the pangs of a deeper awareness.

Mental Health

I was misdiagnosed as bipolar for 6 years. I’m only now getting my life back.

November 26, 2017January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch 19 Comments

Some people have the impression that once a mentally ill person seeks out help, it's only a matter of time before things get better. But that's not always true.

Mental Health/self-care

You can care about social justice and care about your own happiness, too.

November 11, 2017November 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 9 Comments

I've shared the "self-care isn't selfish" memes countless times, and yet here I am, struggling to give myself permission to be happy.

transgender

No, Cis People, Being Trans Is Not a Self-Esteem Issue

November 9, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 5 Comments

“I get it! Sometimes I hate my body too."

Mental Health

5 Awesome, Immediate Self-Care Resources For When You Feel Like Actual Garbage

November 4, 2017November 4, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch 17 Comments

Hi, do you feel like garbage? I have some suggestions for you.

Mental Health

7 Signs That Online Therapy Might Be Right For You

October 15, 2017January 1, 2019 Sam Dylan Finch 9 Comments

Somehow, in just a couple of weeks, I'd disclosed more to my online therapist than I had with my previous therapist that I'd worked with for over a year.

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Sam Dylan Finch

Sam Dylan Finch. I’m a writer and positive psychology practitioner that’s passionate about queer joy — with none of the self-helpy bullsh*t. I wrote that thing about people-pleasing that you showed your therapist. I’m much weirder in real life.  ✨ He/they. More?

 

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Pausing our usual programming because I couldn’t not share this. Please enjoy this photo of Cannoli getting the best scritches of his life. 🥰
I restarted testosterone this week, and I want to talk about it. 🏳️‍⚧️
I am on five different medications. It used to be hard to share that with anyone, because I thought that something must be wrong with me to need so many. I worried that my needs confirmed how broken I felt for such a long time.
Does this cycle look familiar to you? You’re anxious about a task, so you avoid it or procrastinate... but that just makes it more overwhelming with time. And just when you need to summon the motivation and get it done? You freeze — the overwhelm becomes so big, you can’t seem to move.

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