The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives may strike as a complex portrayal of faith, relationships, and personal identity. While the show attempts to shine a light on the hidden struggle of women within this unique religious framework, it raises more questions than answers.
Overall, this show was a fascinating depiction of how creative people in high control religious institutions can be...I understand how it feels to try to make sense of your very human emotions and needs of desire, want, belonging but then feeling the constraint of religion and the fear of what might happen if you leave. It takes creativity to stay in the box. Because once you start questioning and doubting, the box disintegrates. 

After a long day all I really want to do is listen to music. It is an unmatched, easily-accessible form of self care that helps me to both move towards and away from my feelings.

Your soul does not need habits. Your soul needs play and imagination and pleasure!

Enter in what I hope to persuade you into reading more of: smut. You may have heard of smut because it’s a growing category of popularity in the Bookstagram and #BookTok areas of the internet.

I think that the pathway to creating loving men is through showing men the love, care, and open embrace of all parts of their humanity. It’s important to remember that nothing about masculinity is inherently toxic. Masculinity can be beautiful, generative, and nurturing when it isn’t strangled by sexist ideals.

If you grew up similarly to how I did, I’m sure you can recall a lot of cheesy, poorly-produced shows and movies about white, straight, high schoolers being the outcasts of their friend groups because they “chose God instead of earthly desires.” But here, there were two real teenagers (well, I think both actors are in their 30s, but regardless), sharing their desires to be accepted by the church—not by their friends. Eric and Abbi had many friends, but it was their churches (those places that preach “love your neighbor as yourself”) that could not accept them.

At Kindman & Co., we are working towards building a society that recognizes and addresses the diverse needs of all individuals. Today, we want to shed light on an often overlooked but important aspect of social justice: Disability Justice. Disability Justice encompasses both understanding and advocacy for the rights, needs, and dignity of disabled people. Read on for more info on what Disability Justice is, why it’s so important and for resources and organizations to start taking action.

Kindman & Co. Therapists, Dani, Steve, and Caitlin, discuss their thoughts on summer topics, and then share their own takes on how Hot Girl Summer should be remixed. The group shares some of the history of Hot Girl Summer, who coined the term, what it has become today, and discusses the phenomenon of cultural appropriation. Enjoy a playful episode of therapists talking all things pop culture!

Read our thoughts as relational, systems focused therapists about this escalating crisis…Our liberation is bound together—both Israelis and Palestinians will not be safe and violence will continue to escalate while Palestinians remain oppressed…Never again means never again for all of us.

This post explores how a variety of cultural differences and power imbalances show up in interracial relationships and how couples can increase their awareness of these challenges and address them together to create more empathetic, authentic connection.

This post explores how a variety of cultural differences and power imbalances show up in interracial relationships and how couples can increase their awareness of these challenges and address them together to create more empathetic, authentic connection.

Barbie is not perfect. Good. We don’t need perfection. We need to mess up and we need more examples of people trying to explore identity, feeling, and pink. We need room to make art that starts conversations on our experiences, childhoods, and overall desires.

This is a transcript from an Interview with Jose Vidrio of Highland Park Training on our Podcast, Out of Session with Kindman & Co. Read on for a discussion about new parenting—especially fatherhood, the importance of gentleness and sitting with discomfort, building new versions of masculinity, and cultivating accessible and inclusive gym culture that contradicts stereotypical forms of masculinity.