Why so many women who come out later identify as people pleasers…
Many women who come out later in life have lived their lives as people pleasers. This blog explains some of the emotional intelligence behind people pleasing and also its limitations.
Are you coming out in mid-life?
Exploring your sexuality in mid-life takes resolution and fortitude. It may seem as if the “normal” time for you to develop your sexual identity has long passed. As adults, we don’t give ourselves much space for experimentation and questioning around our sexual identity.
Are you married to a man but in love with a woman?
Waking up to your sexuality and attraction to women while in a heterosexual marriage, possibly with children, can be one of the most confusing and conflict filled times in one’s life.
What do they say about your same-sex desire?
For those of you that find your source of grounding and strength in your families-of-origin, ‘coming-out’ with your same-sex desire may be one of the first times you face the prospect of being truly stigmatized or disappointing to your loved ones.
Are you questioning your sexuality?
While some of us know about our same-sex attraction from our earliest childhood sexual stirrings, many women do not find they are open to these feelings until they enter their mid-twenties or early thirties, and some even later than that.
Female Identity and Sexuality
How has our society, by asking women to be quiet and good, shaped our identity and sexuality?
Are you ready to stop living by “shoulds”?
Perhaps a few of these statements resonate with you…
I “should” be more accomplished by this point in my life.
I “shouldn’t” be resting and reading this weekend.
I “should” be out and social.
He “should” know how I feel.