Letter: you don’t always have to do something
You don’t always have to do something. When I left negative beliefs and toxic relationships behind, I realized I was feeling a lot more peaceful. One of the things that religion likes to do is pound it into our heads that we have to change. You have to change the...
Letter: Hanging Out With TLS-types
This last weekend Lisa and I were invited to a community is Chessetcook, Nova Scotia, to give a talk Saturday night. We have known many of them for years. We were there five years ago. So it was refreshing to see them again. The community meets at the house of John...
Letter: How to Speak Compassionately
Good day my friends. Today I want to talk about compassionate speech. It was inspired by one of our members posting this quote of Domo Geshe Rinpoche: ”There are many who are interested in gender-neutral language, as well as practicing open-ended statements in...
Meet a Member Podcast: Timothy McPherson
Today's Meet a Member podcast is with Timothy McPherson, who is married, has 3 sons, and is a Salvation Army officer. There are some pretty interesting twists to his remarkable story! Thanks for being so vulnerable, honest, humble, and kind Tim! If you want to have a...
Letter: How to Deal with Family
Last week, someone in our Facebook group brought up a question about how to deal with family and coming out to them theologically. (*** If you’re not in our Facebook group, please just reply to this letter and ask me to get you in. That’s where a lot of the...
Letter: A Quick Way to Self-Approval
So, you are totally confused. Your journey does not make sense. You have difficulty understanding where you are and therefore even greater difficulty in loving yourself and articulating yourself. You’re feeling a mixture of shame, frustration, and maybe even guilt....
Letter: How Do I Deal With Loss?
How do I deal with loss? Not very well. I’m human. When I experience loss, I don’t pull out my trusty roadmap for suffering and loss and follow the guidelines. No one has written such a book because each and every response to loss is unique to that individual. There’s...
Letter: My Trap of Self-Pity
I want to share with you all a very personal story of mine. Please bear with me. I think this will be a short but to the point letter. As many of you know, I’ve had a very tough couple of weeks. It’s been grueling actually. It threw me into a funk that was very...
Letter: 3 Steps to Take when you’re Misunderstood
I want to talk today about being misunderstood. There have been many people on TLS who have felt misunderstood. I have felt misunderstood. In fact, we are all misunderstood at some time or another. I won’t attempt to describe how someone else felt misunderstood. I am...
