My Transgender Life The Blogs from HuffPost 2015-2017: Recent Episodes
Grace Anne Stevens
My Transgender Life, The Blogs from HuffPost 2015-2017 are my recordings of the 100+ blogs I published 5 years ago on a weekly basis. The stories are much more than just about my being transgender, and each has a lesson on acceptance for all people in addition to help everyone better understand at least one transgender experience. I believe that their messages are timeless.
Project Hellfire is a short story of speculative fiction that I wrote in April 2020 and published on Medium.com At the beginning of lockdowns and quarantines adn presidential primaries, I looked into one of my crystal balls. This story came out of it.
Episode 36. Sometimes we do not even recognize the we ourselves are changing, but most certainly this is something that is always occurring.
Episode 34; The results of a cvisit with a dermatologist and some invasive surgery made me consider my journey.
Episode 33: Is stress good or bad? How living my truth helped me deal with stress adn allow me to understand love a bit more.
Episode 32 A rose by any other name. There is more than just make and female in this world , and learning to say, "I understand."
Episode 31: My view of the Meaning of Life, with reference to Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Episode 30 I went inside and found the lost box of all my feelings that were buried so deeply. A discovery that save me, on so many levels..
Episode 29: We all have monsters in us. The challenge is learning how to tame them and make them our companions.
Episode 28 We never transition alone. Sometimes the journeys of who we are close to can be harder than ours.
Episode 25: A return to the Jenner Journey, but appropriate to our lives today in the time of a pandemic.
Episode 23: Listen to how I answer the classic riddle of "What Comes First, Understanding or Acceptance"
Episode 22: I was invited to attend a panel on Trans inclusion in sports at ESPN, This is a summary of what the presenters taught us.
Episode 21: My annual reissue of my Father's Day Blog, "I am Still (a) Dad" that I originally wrote in 2013. With a little extra.
Episode 19: My response to the Jenner coming out on Vanity Fair. So many mixed feelings!
Episode 18: I wrote this a week before the Vanity Fair cover and the I am Caitlin announcement.
Episode 17. The first of 4 blogs about the Jenner transition in June of 2015. What a month for the trans world!
Episode 16; I once dreamt that I was giving a commencement speech. You can listen to the speech I gave, even if it was only in my dreams.
Episode 15: It is hard to accept your truth and then decide to live it, no matter who you are. This is my story.
Episode 14. How many Facebook "friends" have you met in real life? Here is a story about a few I have met.
Episode 13: I surprised myself with this one. I wrote my story as if I was a house. Check it out.
Episode 12: This was written after the famous Bruce Jenner interview but before Caitlyn Jenner appeared in the world.
Episode 11: How I have come to align the reflections in the mirror that come from both my external and internal selves.
Episode 10: Sometime I get my dreams and memories a bit confused. Although this is not a problem, I do not to figure out how to stay in the present moment.
Episode 9: Grace shares how she moved from opening only out of her head to out of her heart. Another major , unexpected, transition!
Episode 8: Discrimination..Religious Freedom..The Holocaust.. Dachau.. all come together in the only blog rejected by Huff Post. Maybe to political but clearly too important!
Episode 7: Grace shares how "Beginner's Mind" allows children to accept gender transition, if their 3 questions are answered correctly.
Episode 6: Grace speaks to the partners of trans folk about the pain they may have caused them.
Episode 5: Memories from when I was a young girl and when I was a young boy. This episode may bring a tear to your eye.
Episode # 4: My personal view on God, religions and free will. Choosing the path of love over the path of fear
The impact of transition on all those around you.
Sharing some of the thoughts from my son.
After the first blog, I did not know what I would do next. This is another baby step in my progress as a writer/blogger.
Episode 1: The very first blog that I published on Huff Post on 2/6/2015. It went viral and I heard from people worldwide.
This is a short 5 minute intro to this show. Here I will be recording the blogs from 2015-2017.
Each episode will be created in the order they were published on Huff Post.
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