Jen Moore Counseling Services

04/12/2022

The legislative session took a lot out of folks, and we know folks are still feeling the consequences. Add The Words, Idaho and Legal Voice are teaming up to pour back into community and are holding a space for restoration and grounding in community.

Join us for a day of nourishment and connections, based on your own comfort level. In addition to meals and snacks, we will be hosting a variety of healing practitioners in both group and solo settings, including but not limited to: Crafting, Games, and Meditation. Licensed Therapists Gabby Davis and Jen Moore will be present to help hold legislative listening sessions. (More information below).

Child care will also be provided at no-cost. There are no speakers, no programming, no tabling from organizations. This will strictly be a community centric space for healing and restoration.

🎟 RSVP here: https://secure.everyaction.com/uVJh7ly_3kmg61E0InWErA2

✨ADDITIONAL INFORMATION✨

💐Legislative Listening Sessions are 30 minute group or individual listening sessions that acknowledge the present and make space to talk about what is happening to us + in us as we live through the experience of the Idaho legislative session and seeing ourselves, our communities, and our human rights under attack.

When these collective and traumatic experiences happen, it affects us internally - and yet we so rarely have space to process or listen to what's going on, without judgment or problem solving.

In these 30 minute sessions, your facilitators will ask questions and hold space for whatever is coming up as we sense what's going on with and within us amidst our individual and collective experiences.

💐 This is a strictly gun-free zone.

04/01/2022

Save the date, y'all!

Save the Date: Sunday, April 24th 10amMT-3pm

We know the legislative session took a lot out of folks, we know it still is. We are teaming up with Legal Voice to pour back into the community and holding a space for restoration.

Join us for a day of nourishment and connection based on your own comfort level. In addition to food we’ll be hosting a variety of healing practitioners in both group and solo settings; licensed therapists Gabby Davis & Jen Moore will be present! In addition to: reiki, crafting, games, mediation and more details to come!

No programming, speakers or organizational tabling- just community centric connection and healing.

If you have an offering you’d like to explore providing OR you’d like to make sponsor a particular offering, please reach out to Chelsea at cgaonalincoln@legalvoice.org

Any size contributions towards the event can also be made at www.addthewords.org/contribute

**Stay tuned for more details and registration opportunities next week!

03/31/2022

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, or . I have mixed feels all about it. For transgender folks to be visible in a world that has tried and keeps trying to erase us has been revolutionary… AND I want to offer Trans folks options and my own reflections:

— Be visible, or don’t. Remember, you don’t owe that to anyone.
— What about a Transgender Day of Ease? Or of feeling protected? Or of joy? Or of having access to resources?
— Encouraging trans folks to be visible puts all the labor on us. What about liberating this world and spaces so that we don’t have to struggle so much, or experience so much harm, when we’re visible? How about cis day (or days) of unpacking your harmful behavior and binary systems?
— Remember my transgender, questioning, and beyond the binary lovelies, you get to decide what support means to you and what environments feel safe for you to be visible within… and how you feel supported and where you wish to be visible can be fluid.
— To my fellow trans fam, I offer you love. Everyday. Visible or not.

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03/26/2022

You ever get caught up in those internalized binaries? I’m good or bad at this? I’m okay or not okay? I’m healing or I’m not?

The thing is, binaries are garbage. They distract us from the fluid and present nature of life and our experiencing of it. They come in the ways of judgments, of rigidity, of only one truth being possible at a time… we might never get started on something new (job, relationship, outlook on life) bc the binary keeps us stuck.

But jiving with more of your flow, checking in with where you’re at, and embracing the process of things helps ya . It lets you be both scared and brave. Tired and giving your best. Healing and struggling sometimes. Owning your s**t and getting better by the day.

Hoping you’re able to bust out of those binaries around ya and inside of ya. Break free, y’all ❤️❤️❤️

03/22/2022

Repost

My wish for you is to choose you. Love for you. Joy for you. Rest for you. A momentary break (or longer!) for you. Protecting your peace for you. No more educating others for you. Laughter for you. Ease for you.

However it looks, in whatever ways are accessible: choose you.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

03/17/2022

This is a different kind of post. It’s a gratitude post. A love letter. An appreciation for community. It’s the joy of working with and celebrating my people, many forced to be more resilient than they should ever have had to be. It’s my framily who help me feel soft and loved in a world that require us to put on coats of armor so crusty and crispy and hard. It’s the folks who show up — really show up - for transgender youth. It’s the reminders from beloveds to nourish and love on ourselves. It’s the collective and the marathon we’re running together, taking breaks as needed, all the while moving towards liberation. I have deep love for you. For us. Thank you. Always.

03/15/2022

Such deep LOVE ❤️ ❤️❤️ for the community of folks who showed up and out and worked to get harmful anti-trans legislation stopped. Community celebration plans are in action — follow Add the Words and get ready to share space and joy, y’all 🥰

✨ This moment belongs to community, relish in this moment of joy. While it’s not the first or last fight where LGBTQ+ folks have to defend their humanity- today- we hope our transgender siblings and their families can breathe a heavy sight of relief.

Celebration planning is underway! Stay tuned!

03/14/2022

Thank you for using your voices, Dr Pennings and Dr Flynn.

Idaho's House Bill 675 will cause harm to transgender children and families seeking medical care, write Kelly Pennings and Daniel Flyyn.

03/14/2022

There might be speculations of the horrendous bill banning gender affirming health care for transgender youth being dead- but we don’t leave room for speculations.
Add the Words along with our friends at Legal Voice, Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates West and more then a dozen local and national organizations are keeping the pressure on Senate State Affairs to hold HB675 in committee without a hearing.
Use bit.ly/NO675SSA to send them a message now!

03/09/2022

Gender affirming care is:
✅ medical best practice
✅ age appropriate
✅ patient led in collaboration with families & doctors
✅ endorsed by every major medical association
✅ proven to help mental health & improve physical wellness

Facts are facts!

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