Ep. # 253: Gender Journeys & Tarot as Support for Gender Exploration with the Gender Doula Eli Lawliet

Eli is a gender doula - supporting folx as they question, explore, and transition their gender. In this episode, Eryn and Eli talk about:

• Eli’s journey with sexuality, gender, and spirituality
• “Is it my gender or sexuality, or is this just my trauma?”
• Queerness as a dream outside of the realm of our existence as kids
• His work as a gender doula
• Tarot’s role in his gender journey
• What Eli wants to tell people who are on a gender journey of some kind
• Why Eli thinks everyone should go on a gender journey
• Fluidity and changeability around identity and labels
• Labels & how they can constrain us
• Holding our own complications & other people’s complications, too
• Transness and queerness as vectors of spirituality and connection to nature, land, and community
• Different timelines for queer and trans people
• Tarot as support for gender exploration
• Grief as part of gender and sexuality journeys
• Ritual in gender journeys

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/eli-lawliet

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