S4 E9: Gender Awareness & Creativity as Self-Love

Fearless Self-Love

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Quotes:

"So now I'm a therapist, after being a photographer for all these year, and being a man for all these years. Now I'm a therapist that's a woman!" - Kimberly Anderson

"I don't have a lot of time for art that doesn't mean anything, but I do have a lot of time for art that means everything." - Kimberly Anderson

"Letting go of that control, that need to control, that has probably been the biggest lesson for me.It's that I've really had to force myself to relinquish any expectations of how this thing called life is going to go, and really just embrace life in the moment, and not only be ok with that, but celebrate it and cherish it as it unfolds." - Kimberly Anderson

"The greater the distance between where we are and where want to be, the greater the pain...if we can narrow the gap, we can reduce the pain." - Kimberly Anderson

"Don't set yourself on fire in order to keep other people warm." - Kimberly Anderson

Links:

Mama Dragon Project - support for mothers with LGBTQ children

Meet Kimberly:

Kimberly Anderson is a transgender woman embarking on the second half of her life reinventing nearly every aspect of who she is. She was raised in an orthodox Mormon home, living as a boy on a horse-farm in rural Northern Utah. Anderson has both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University. For over twenty-five years she was a practicing documentary and fine-art photographer and was a university lecturer for ten years in Utah. She has worked all over the world with an emphasis in Asia and Scandinavia. She was married for twenty years to a woman and together they have raised two children. Currently Anderson is a recent graduate of the University of San Francisco with an MA in Counseling Psychology. She has been practicing as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas with concentrations on Native American populations, adolescents, eating disorders, and trauma. Her particular specialty is working with LGBTQ+ youth and their families transitioning through various journeys of faith and spirituality. Anderson is the photographer and author of the Mama Dragon Story Project, an ethnographic study which features portraits and autobiographical essays from over 135 Mormon moms who have decided their love for their LGBTQ+ child is greater than religious dogma. Anderson has pursued a new spiritual path based on truth, science, and love.

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