Learning to heal - gender
Season 2, Episode 7, Jun 10, 2022, 10:00 AM
Nicky Burr, GoHealth community member, talks with Gillian about her healing journey as a transgender woman. This is an episode rich with insights and honesty that you will not want to miss listening to, the many topics covered include:
- Healthy Healing Hubs project of the Guild of Health and St. Raphael and how Nicky first connected with the GoHealth community.
- Gillian shares her honest discomfort about the conversation and fear of saying the wrong thing.
- Nicky clarifies that we approach the topic of transgender first and foremost as being humans together.
- Nicky shares something of her experiences growing up not knowing what Transgender was.
- Nicky describes the deconstruction journey she and her family went on.
- Identity is something at the core when the outer shell is removed.
- Contemplative spirituality as a means of coming back to the original self.
- Nicky describes the journey she went on before identifying as Transgender and how her family reacted to her transition.
- Gillian and Nicky describe the significance of names and the importance of names in the process of transition.
- Challenges of medical waiting lists for someone wanting to transition.
- The terror of transition at the beginning. And the continual fear of being called out in public places.
- The Equality Act of 2010 means it is unlawful to discriminate against transgender people.
- Nicky explains why people transition and the different forms of transition.
- Gillian and Nicky reflect on the incredible experience of community that connected on WhatsApp when Nicky journeyed through gender reconstruction or gender confirmation surgery.
- Complications from surgery.
- God’s presence throughout each stage of the transition journey.
- Prayers of the Guild of Health and St. Raphael working in the back of an ambulance in November!
- Nicky shares what she perspective she gained when walking along a beach in Bradwell, Essex.
- Nicky shares some key questions and things that cisgender people might do to be sensitive to and inclusive of transgender experience.
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