by jessekahn | Mar 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hi! Thanks for visiting my website and blog! If you’re wondering why I haven’t written since 2017, you may be excited to learn that I have been! I’ve just been posting them on The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center’s website! Please take a...
by jessekahn | Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
To be LGBTQ+ and LDS is a complicated experience, especially after November 2015. The bravery and resilience LGBTQ+ mormons embody in the face of suffering, institutionalized cis-hetero-supremacy, and rejection is both saddening and inspiring. The Mormon church claims...
by jessekahn | Apr 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
A lot of the people I work with feel that they didn’t learn how to soothe their feelings, express their feelings and have a constructive relationship to their feelings. I find this particularly true when it comes to anger. A theme I’ve also seen is that...
by jessekahn | Mar 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Relationships, intimacy and vulnerability can be scary and many folks I’ve worked with struggle with trauma, negative self narratives, beliefs of being undeserving, unloveable and other narratives that keep us feeling distant or fearful of relationships. This...
by jessekahn | Jan 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Language and labels can be incredibly meaningful. In a lot of my work I find people often resisting labels, defending labels, finding connection in labels and finding meaning. While sometimes harmful and limiting, labels can also be connecting and liberating. They can...