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A new blog, on average, is published about 3-8x a month, tending to offer ideas and perspectives on psychological aspects of current events, an introduction or deepening of how Dr. Denise Renye works with people, and some practices you can do blending psychology, sexology, spirituality, embodiment and art.
Dr. Renye’s Psychology Today column Between Insight and Instinct can be found through Psychology Today.
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When Religious Trauma Follows You Into Your Relationships
Early in my career, I worked with an LGBTQIA+ nonprofit that collaborated with interfaith communities and congregations. As a liaison counselor, I worked with congregants who had been excommunicated from their faith communities while also consulting with clergy and faith leaders.
I Thought I Was Attending a Conference on Sexuality
Throughout my career as a psychologist and sex therapist, I've become increasingly interested in what happens when we widen the frame through which we understand people. I've found that the questions people bring into therapy often make the most sense when they're understood within the larger contexts of their lives.
The conference didn't introduce me to that perspective. It reinforced it.
When a Person Transitions: The Complex and Beautiful Work of Staying Together
The love that remains is no longer based on assumptions or inherited scripts about gender and partnership.
It becomes a conscious choice.
And in that choice, couples sometimes discover a form of relational depth that few people ever have the opportunity to experience. A partner’s transition can feel like the ground beneath a relationship is shifting. In many ways, it is.
But it can also be an invitation for couples to move beyond inherited assumptions and into a relationship built on authenticity, courage, and conscious commitment. And sometimes, if both partners remain present to the process, there is a rare privilege waiting on the other side:
the joy of witnessing your beloved become who they truly are.
When Violence Is Followed by Denial: Collective Trauma, Queer Loss, and the Killing of Renee Good
Collective trauma requires collective care. Healing begins when we witness harm honestly, tend to its impact in the body, and remain in relationship with one another rather than retreating into silence.
If you are part of the LGBTQIA+ community and this …