Natalia's Therapy and Breathwork

15/11/2025

https://jbilek.substack.com/p/when-non-binary-entered-my-home-a?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b4013f-2e5b-43d4-b30a-b46bcb5c2153_944x628.png&open=false

By SheBearSky

15/10/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/bearskyshebearsky/p/the-silent-grief-of-trans-worried?r=3yt7pc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Creating space for healing, breath, and truth in a world that refuses to see our pain

15/10/2025

🇸🇪 In May of 2021 Sweden changed their policy regarding the medical and surgical transition of children.

This change occurred in the wake of the Trans Train Documentary Series exploring the medical treatment of children experiencing gender dysphoria in Sweden and Europe.

The films examined the evidence base of the protocols, the ethics of treating children and the degree of oversight and accountability that clinics held for their patients.

They include nuanced interviews with parents, detransitioners and clinicians overseeing the medical treatment of gender dysphoria.

Part 4 explores the story of Leo, a biologically female child who experienced gender dysphoria, was socially transitioned to a boy and began puberty blockers at the age of 11. Leo experienced painful and serious complications around bone density and fractures, as well as ongoing emotional distress.

Watch the film via the link in the first comment on this post.

08/10/2025

https://bearskyshebearsky.substack.com/p/grieving-children-who-are-not-gone?r=3yt7pc

The Isolation of Parents with Trans-identified Children

07/10/2025

✨Therapy First's executive director, Paul Garcia-Ryan, is interviewed in this new essay by Jennifer Block for The New Atlantis : "What Comes After Gender Affirmation?".

"In the United States, every professional organization in the mental health field — the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the corresponding groups for psychoanalysts, therapists, counselors, and social workers —all continue to stand behind the affirmative model: accept a patient’s gender identity as innate and off-limits for exploratory discussion, regardless of the patient’s age or general mental health.

"This, says Paul Garcia-Ryan, executive director of a small but growing organization for mental health professionals called Therapy First, has put his colleagues in an unprecedented — and unfortunate — position, asking them to treat trans patients in an exceptional way that precludes the precepts of therapy itself: asking questions and exploring emotions so that their clients may better know themselves.

"In the context of young people, he says, the model disregards the fluid nature of adolescent identity formation. “I was trained in a gender-affirming way and practiced in a gender-affirming way, and you don’t really get much discussion around developmental considerations” he says. “We have younger therapists coming in and expressing real concerns about how this is taught to them".

Thank you Jennifer Block and the New Atlantis for including us in this detailed and compassionate analysis.

04/10/2025

https://bearskyshebearsky.substack.com/p/why-your-child-sees-you-as-the-enemy?r=3yt7pc

Understanding Trans Identity as a Coping Mechanism

03/10/2025

https://bearskyshebearsky.substack.com/p/how-to-create-the-conditions-for?r=3yt7pc

Why logic doesn’t work — and what to do instead when your child is stuck in identity thinking.

07/09/2025

Don't suffer in silence or stay in the dark. Grab your FREE consult today.

04/08/2025

https://www.pittparents.com/p/to-my-daughters-therapist-you-were?r=3yt7pc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

To my daughter’s gender therapist: you were wrong.

30/07/2025