The pre-modern Hawaiians acknowledged 8 different forms of gender; our high tech world is only now beginning to catch up. Over the past 20 years, trans awareness has spread from continent to continent with the expansion of the internet as cyber brothers and sisters recognized themselves in one another. And in the last 10 years, our understanding of gender has become so much richer; the space between the binary is now being filled by the extraordinary range of identities f

I work with the long-term wounded every day in my job as a psychotherapist; one of my clients described herself as “the walking dead.” Nowadays we know that trauma is stored in the body, that the long-term consequences of trauma are often crippling physical illnesses and premature death. We know that the practice of yoga and meditation can really help survivors of abuse, that energy work such as reiki and craniosacral therapy can clear neural pathways and advance healing of t