What the LGBTQ+ Community Already Knows About Relational Health So proud of this webinar with Lisa Rivers and Martin Lehman-Waldau. Thank you Relational Life Foundation for hosting this and other Community Conversations. Years ago, when I create Todo Mejora Foundation in Chile, I watched queer children and teenagers build the kind of relational skill most adults spend a lifetime avoiding. They named harm without flinching. They chose their families. They negotiated intimacy

Most of the people who come to see me are very good at managing their feelings. That is often part of the problem. Somewhere early, many of us learned that grief is something to get over, that fear is weakness (particularly for men), that despair is a malfunction to be corrected with the right mindset or supplement. These clients are competent. They cope. And underneath the coping is a thick layer of their life they have never been allowed, or allowed themselves, to actually