Sasha Ayad, LPC
@SashaLPC
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I’m a therapist who believes “gender” is actually a metaphor. I don’t care about your politics. I try to hold an ideology-free perspective on personal identity
Joined November 2016
📽️ New Video: The Hidden Roots of Gender Dysphoria (Intro). We know that.- gender dysphoria isn’t just one thing.- the diagnosis only tells a part of the story. So what are the different factors that might be underneath this condition?. In this new video, I’m introducing a 7-part.
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On Guilt in Parents of Trans-Identified Children . You get the point - parents (and especially mothers) can feel guilty about anything and everything. Read the rest of the book excerpt below and consider joining us for our very last Wider Lens parent retreat this November.
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And in her second video she says she's not trying to blame anybody for her steroid use. She takes full responsibility. And even if the coach had been honest with her about the side effects and risks, there's a good chance she would have taken them anyways. Because she.
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"What Steroids Did To My Body". Female bodybuilder explains that her first biggest mistake was "listening to the wrong people.". Early in this video, she makes a note about her voice, calling it the "elephant in the room". She says "I'm not trans, though there's nothing wrong
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When all things LGBTQ are celebrated, almost to an exhausting level these days, why would same-sex attracted adolescents struggle to accept themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual?
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My favorite moments from Patrick’s podcast:. - you’re not a thing, you’re a person (in reference to his brilliant notion of the “Broken Rolex Fallacy” - sounds obvious, but a lot of pop psychology operates under the pretense that we are like machines - so this is such an.
Link to episode 27:.
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🧐 Sexuality, nonconformity and gender dysphoria. Social pressures to act more "normal" can make gender nonconforming kids question their behavior and their identity. This can can create and shape gender dysphoria. You might ask, then:. Why do some gender nonconforming kids
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Anyone know of a psychoanalytic analysis or paper on hoarding behaviors?.
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Sometimes the harassment, abuse or difficulties we experience are specifically related to our biological sex. A transgender identity (or cross-sex identity) may be an attempt to protect oneself from extreme vulnerability. Watch the full video here:
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Either I'm getting really good at spotting ChatGPT "writing" or ChatGPT is really bad at varying it's style, sentence structure and vocabulary. Or rather bad at humanizing it. In all honesty, there were a few weeks when I got really excited about ChatGPT. A very techy friend.
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"Social Contagion" has gotten a bad rep in some circles. So, I'd like to offer a translation:. Human beings are social creatures. It's normal, healthy, and in fact, necessary for us to build bonds with each other, relate to shared experiences and to identify and build upon
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Some people come into the world breaking gender stereotypes without even trying. This is organic, spontaneous, and natural gender nonconformity:.- highly feminine little boys.- extremely tomboyish little girls. But why do some people like this develop gender dysphoria?. While
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We'll look back at our Nonbinary Identities episode from Sept 2021. Is NB still and on- and off-ramp to a cross-sex identity?.Is NB still a form of political protest?.Is NB a type of gender nihilism? . Join us on Saturday and tell us what you think - details below.
Does a nonbinary identity break free from restrictive stereotypes, or is it a form of "gender nihilism"?. Analyze our 2021 Episode and come chat with us this Saturday at 10:00 am ET! (all paying subs welcome). EP 39: Join us:
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As we prepare for our final parent retreat in November, I’ll be releasing an excerpt from our book each week. These come from the chapter on parental self-care and they address the emotional toll that is often suffered privately by parents of trans-identified children. Read:
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How do activists maintain the illusion that "transition always works for trans people"? . By redefining "trans" the moment transition DOESN'T work. It's a No True Scotsman Fallacy and I explain it here:. Watch the full vid on The Metaphor of Gender:
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RT @TherapyFirstOrg: SASHA AYAD: "It's so challenging to work with people who have such extreme versions of a story". This clip is from o….
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Always great to speak with you. Thanks Benjamin.
Today, on Calmversations: channel favorite @SashaLPC returns to discuss all she’s learned over a decade of working with gender distressed adolescents (and their parents). Link below!
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It creates major blind-spots when we use a one-size-fits-all approach to gender dysphoria. I lay it out in this clip from The Metaphor of Gender. Watch the full vid:
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🤔 Have you noticed that for some people a trans identity can make them feel more visible, more recognized, and more confident. While for others, a trans identity helps them blend in, go unnoticed, or seem more "normal"?. When people are achieving completely different outcomes
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📘 Even formal diagnoses from the DSM-5 are simply a cluster of symptoms and experiences that occur together. They tell us very little, on their own, about the particular person who has the symptoms, or the context in which the symptoms developed. The same is true for gender
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