You're young, you're striving for perfection at school or work, or trying to look the way others think you should. It's taking a toll on you physically, even if you don't know it. This post talks about the anxiety that breeds in mind and body.

Grief overload is from multiple deaths in a short amount of time. You don't get a chance to process each loss because it just keeps coming. It affects your body and you have built up stress; learn how to release it.

Were you raised with affirmative spiritual leaders? Photo: Marek Studzinski If you grew up LGBTQ+ in a religious community, you know that the harm wasn't just theological. It was relational; it was physical. It was the way your body learned to brace itself before you even knew why you were tensing up. Besides the ignorant, insulting message to "pray the gay away," there's a lingering tension that lives inside a person who has to pretend and mask. Religious trauma shows up differently for...