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.

On our podcast episode in “Out of Session with Kindman & Co.”, Dani, a lesbian Latina woman, and Amanda, a nonbinary Chinese American, chat about having a speaking platform for people of color. They’ll dive into why the two of them launched this podcast, how it feels to establish a platform to speak, to take up space and freely speak about lived experiences given the history of feeling silenced. Read more!

Lunar New Year is fast approaching! This holiday is important to many Asian families, and our care coordinator Amanda shares their personal connection to the holiday. Here is the background on this celebration and how it’s changed since they come out. 

Amanda, our care coordinator, is back with 5 things they wish their therapist knew - Lunar New Year Edition! Finding a culturally competent therapist is important. These are just a couple of thoughts to consider if you are Asian and / or in the world of therapy.

In honor of Hispanic* Heritage Month, we’re highlighting a conversation between Dani Marrufo and Gaby Teresa, who are both queer, Latinx therapists. They speak on this specific intersection of identity and how being queer and Latinx/e/o/a affects the work they do, the clients they see, and just finding a therapist in general. Click to read more!

If you haven’t watched Turning Red yet, it’s on Disney+ and is a great animated film with diverse Asian representation! Amanda Lam, our care coordinator, dives deeps into the themes of puberty, intergenerational trauma, and more in this blog. Click here to read more about how Turning Red depicts generational differences within Asian families.

In a time where TV show options are overwhelming, it takes something for a show to be popular. Euphoria seems to have it. It’s provocative, chaotic, sexy, full of drama and feels; it is akin to a car crash dressed in an extensive eye makeup look; we cannot look away. In this blog, Caitlin, Gaby, and Anna will discuss how sexuality is presented through the character of Kat, how the lens of socioeconomic status, oppression and privilege impacts the characters of Euphoria, and how grief is portrayed in this show.

Courtney invites you all into her past year of reading! Warning: Since the beginning of the pandemic, she’s found herself gravitating towards a genre that she has never explored before–romantic comedies (she have a feeling she's not the only one who needed a guaranteed happy ending these past few years). Here are some of her favorite books which made her feel feelings from 2021.

“Purity culture” is a term that encapsulates both a movement and a period of time in which the evangelical Christian, and mainly the White Western American Christians, doctrine focused immense energy onto promoting the biblical view of purity (through one interpretation) and virginity before marriage. This blog will explore some more of the history of this culture, how it has been pervasive in its impact, and some ways to begin healing the relationship between yourself and your body.