How to Heal the Three Breakup Mistakes That Cause Suffering, Steal Joy and Prevent Future love
Most of us have experienced a breakup at some point in our lives. Sometimes that breakup was our decision and sometimes not. For those of us who have had a breakup that we haven't quite healed from, this free online seminar may be something you want to check out.
I am not in partnership with the company putting on this seminar (Evolving Wisdom), nor have I attended one of their seminar in the past. I received an email and I liked some of the ideas they had, and I figured it's free, so nothing to lose. If it sucks, well, you can just turn it off.
If you want to sign up, here is the link, if you want to know more about it, check out the information below.
Here are some of the details:
There are few things in life that are as devastating as going through the painful breakup of a relationship.
If you’ve been there—or are there now—you know what I’m talking about.
Those long, restless nights not knowing how you’ll get through it . . . going over the relationship (and especially the breakup) in your mind again and again, wondering if you could have done something different that might have made it last, or at least not end so badly.
I can imagine how you probably feel when a well-intentioned friend tells you that you just need time, and that you’ll get over it eventually.
It can make you want to break something. Or break down crying.
Bitter endings to love relationships can ravage every aspect of your life. It can often feel like your whole world has shattered, and you’re not even sure where all the pieces are to try to put it back together.
So you try not to think about it. You try to put it behind you and move on with your life . . . but just moving on doesn’t really work.
The good news is, there is a way to put the pieces together again, and the conscious completion of a relationship—even one that ended decades ago—can liberate you beyond the patterns of your past, heal potential toxic residue, and catalyze a journey of healing and transformation. Read more
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Free Seminar: How to Heal from a Breakup - November 20, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Girl on Girl Documentary - The Invisibility of "Femme" Lesbians
Girl on Girl is an original documentary film that features the stories of feminine lesbians who, even after coming out, feel invisible and stigmatized.”
Unlike any documentary film to date, Girl on Girl focuses its lens on the lives of feminine lesbians, and invites the audience to discover what life is like for women whose identity is incessantly trivialized and stigmatized, both outside of and within queer spaces. Girl on Girl challenges assumptions of what society imagines a lesbian to look like and, for the first time, addresses the issue of feminine lesbians feeling invisible even after coming out
Girl on Girl: An Original Documentary -- Official Trailer FALL 2014 from Jodi Savitz on Vimeo.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Women's Weekend 2.0 Schedule of Events - Sept 12-14, 2014
Monday, June 30, 2014
Women's Weekend 2.0, Sept. 12 -14, 2014
Women’s Weekend 2.0 will take place on the Russian River with Saturday and Sunday being an outdoor festival at the Monte Rio Amphitheater. The lesbian entertainers will include Beverly McClellan of NBC's "The Voice", and Suzanne Westenhoefer and Julie Goldman from Logo's "Big, Gay Comedy Sketch Show". There will also be a crafts fair, color drop, flash mob, concessions, golf tournament, single’s mixers, wine tasting, a Jazz and Blues day on Sunday and much more. Evening DJ dances and live bands will be held at the River Theater in Guerneville.
WW2.0 offers events that will appeal to all ages over 21 – Baby Boomers are invited! WW2.0 is designed to allow women to play full-out and have the kind of fun we thought was left in childhood. There is a deep thrill in seeing one’s own beauty reflected in the open hearts of others with a backdrop of the gorgeous Russian River scenery. It’s breathtaking fun, is what it is! WW2.0 is structured to enable women to really connect in a way that inspires them not to hide out in cliques, right?
There will be a variety of accommodations available to suit everyone's taste, with everything from tent camping to 5 star hotels.
Tickets are now on sale, so visit their website to get all the 411.
Victory for California LGBT Youth
Equality California Press Release - June 30, 2014
(Los Angeles)—Today, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to
review a 2013 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit upholding California’s Senate Bill 1172, a law that
prohibits licensed counselors and therapists from engaging in dangerous
practices to try to change the sexual orientation or gender expression
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children. Known as
“conversion therapy,” “reparative therapy,” “ex-gay therapy,” or “sexual
orientation change efforts,” the practices have been condemned by
medical and mental health organizations across the country because they
are known to lead to extreme depression and suicide.
The Supreme Court’s decision today clears the way for enforcement of
California’s law—signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2012 and the
first of its kind in the nation—that provides that state-licensed
therapists who engage in the prohibited practices with minor patients
may be subject to professional discipline by California licensing
authorities. The constitutionality of the California law was challenged
in October 2012 in two lawsuits filed by anti-LGBT groups, primarily
representing therapists who engage in the prohibited practices. In the
fall of 2012, Equality California filed a successful motion to intervene
in one of the lawsuits to defend the law alongside California Attorney
General Kamala Harris, who represents the State of California
defendants. Equality California is represented by the National Center
for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson
LLP.
On August 29, 2013, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals unanimously upheld the law, ruling that the plaintiffs in two
legal challenges could not succeed on their claim that the law infringes
the free speech rights of therapists who wish to engage in these
dangerous and long-discredited practices.
The full Ninth Circuit court declined to further review that decision,
and the plaintiffs in the two lawsuits then asked the Supreme Court to
review the cases. The Supreme Court denied those requests today, meaning
that the Ninth Circuit panel’s decision upholding the law will be the
final decision on the plaintiffs’ free-speech claims and the California
law may be enforced.
Senate Bill 1172 was authored by Senator Ted Lieu and sponsored by NCLR,
Equality California, Gaylesta, Courage Campaign, Lambda Legal, and
Mental Health America of Northern California, and supported by dozens of
organizations, including the California Psychological Association, the
California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and
the California Division of the American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy.
NCLR Legal Director Shannon Minter said: “This life-saving law has
cleared the final hurdle and will now protect California youth from
harmful practices that have been rejected by all leading medical and
mental health organizations. This important legislation will permanently
improve the health and well-being of California’s most vulnerable LGBT
young people. We look forward to more states joining California and New
Jersey in preventing state-licensed therapists from engaging in
discredited practices that offer no health benefits and put LGBT youth
at risk of severe harm, including depression and suicide.”
Added Equality California Executive Director-Elect Rick Zbur: “The
Supreme Court’s decision to let Senate Bill 1172 protect our LGBT youth
is a major step forward for California and our nation. We are proud to
live in the first state to protect young people from the lifelong damage
caused by these horrific practices. We thank Sen. Ted Lieu for
authoring this bill, Speaker Emeritus John A. Pérez for his bold
leadership in helping to get the law passed, and Gov. Jerry Brown for
signing it into law.”
NCLR recently launched #BornPerfect: The Campaign to End Conversion Therapy,
a national effort aimed at protecting LGBT kids from conversion therapy
and ending the practice across the country in five years.
Equality California (EQCA) is the largest statewide lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender advocacy organization in California. For more
than a decade, Equality California has strategically moved California
from a state with extremely limited legal protections for lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender people to a state with some of the most
comprehensive human rights protections in the nation. Equality
California has partnered with legislators to successfully sponsor 96
pieces of pro-equality legislation. EQCA continues to advance equality
through legislative advocacy, electoral work, public education and
community empowerment. www.eqca.org
www.eqca.org
Friday, May 23, 2014
2014 US Gay Pride Festivals & Celebrations
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Oregon Marriage equality lawsuit: Judge to issue a decision Monday
The federal judge in Oregon’s marriage equality lawsuit said he plans to issue an opinion at noon on Monday.
If judge Michael McShane strikes down Oregon’s law excluding same-sex couples from marriage, all loving and committed couples in Oregon could be granted the freedom to marry.
“We don't know which way the judge will rule, but we are hopeful that Oregon is on the verge of making history—and that by next week, all of Oregon's loving, committed couples will be able to wed in our state,” said Amy Ruiz, deputy campaign manager for Oregon United for Marriage.
Oregon United for Marriage launched a “Decision Day Resource Page” last week, for Oregonians anticipating the ruling.
On April 23, Judge McShane heard arguments on motions for summary judgment in the case. On Wednesday May 17 the Judge heard oral arguments from the National Organization for Marriage, which filed their motion to intervene in the case at 11:04 p.m. two days before oral arguments.
So far, more than a dozen judges have ruled for the freedom to marry since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act last year. Once Oregon wins marriage equality, Multnomah County has said that it plans to start issuing licenses right away to gay and lesbian couples.
BACKGROUND ON THE CASES:
Attorneys filed two lawsuits last year in the federal court in Eugene to challenge laws that exclude same-sex couples from marriage in Oregon. In October, attorneys Lake Perriguey and Lea Ann Easton filed the first case, Geiger v. Kitzhaber, on behalf of two couples. In December, staff attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Oregon, and volunteer counsel Misha Isaak and Tom Johnson of Perkins Coie, LLP, and Jennifer Middleton of Johnson, Johnson & Schaller, PC, filed a second case, Rummell v. Kitzhaber, on behalf of two same-sex couples who wish to marry in Oregon and Basic Rights Education Fund. In January, the judge, Michael McShane, consolidated the two cases.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced in February that Measure 36 is indefensible. “Sexual orientation does not determine an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and enduring relationship,” she wrote in a brief filed with the court. “The ban cannot withstand a federal constitutional challenge under any standard of review.”
The National Organization for Marriage in Washington D.C. filed a motion to intervene in the case, and now the judge is hearing arguments about how to rule.
