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You can now access all my T4T meditations on my website using this link.
As trans and gender expansive folx, we already know how to listen to our truths and our bodies’ needs. Now it’s applying this magic to meet this emotional moment.
This is part 3 in a new series about something very real for so many trans and gender expansive folx: Waiting for gender affirming care.
This week, I’m talking about how we as trans folx can support ourselves and each other when we encounter medical gatekeeping to access gender affirming care. But first, a note about what this series is, and what it is not. I’m not going to be giving you hot takes, “hacks” for your nervous system, or telling you how you should be navigating this time. Why? Because your internal system of parts is unique to you. What my system needed for my gender journey isn’t necessarily what your system needs. That’s the beauty of this practice - it allows us offer consent-based support to our systems.
If we try and meet our systems with someone else’s idea of what they think we need, the tools are likely going to miss. If we start to cultivate the ability to tune into our unique system of parts, the greater the chance we have at finding tools and affirmations that actually land. And our system begins to feel understood, sometimes for the first time. Which leads us into medical gatekeeping.
Supporting ourselves through the roadblocks
As trans folx, we know what our bodies need to feel aligned. We are the experts in our own gender journeys. Unfortunately, the medical system, which includes psychotherapy, continues to cause harm to trans and gender expansive bodies by gatekeeping access to care.
It happens, and it shouldn’t. And when we as trans folx encounter it, it can throw not only logistical roadblocks our way, but emotional ones. Today’s T4T meditation focuses on slowing down, noticing where your body and internal system of parts go when they encounter medical gatekeeping, and finding an anchoring set of affirmations that meet those parts exactly where they are. Nobody can tell you what affirmations are going to land for you, because nobody else has your unique system of parts. The goal here is starting to listen to your own truth, and your own body, for the answers. As trans and gender expansive folx, we already know how to listen to our truths and our bodies’ needs. Now it’s applying this magic to meet this emotional moment. Access the recording here. (You can now access the entire library of T4T meditations on my website!) You’ll be guided to slow down, get in touch with what arises when encountering medical gatekeeping, listening to those parts, and from there finding an affirmation your system needs in the moment to be seen and understood. I’ll invite you to repeat the affirmation three times, and notice the shifts that occur in your system as you do so. As always, this is a practice. You might do this practice every day and come up with a different affirmation each day. That’s ok, because it means you’re listening to your system moment by moment. In care and solidarity, Eula ——
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