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Transforming Perspectives with Dr. Alex Iantaffi
Systemic thinker, sex and relationship therapist, creative educator, writer, podcaster, and speaker working at the intersection of embodiment, creativity, healing, sensuality, and spirituality.
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Alex Iantaffi
Alex Iantaffi
@transformingperspectives
Systemic thinking for collective change and liberation. Author, sex and relationship therapist, poet, creative educator, podcaster, and speaker working at the intersection of embodiment, creativity, healing, sensuality, and spirituality.
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Alex Iantaffi
Jun 9
This essay made me feel so seen and also helped me to better understand some past situations. I am so grateful that one of my nesting partners encouraged me to trust my own pattern recognition over the past few years.
Decoding Psyche
How Associative Thinkers Are Misread in Linear Systems
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Alex Iantaffi
Jun 9
This feel so painful and so real. Grateful to have so many disabled folks in my life who remind me we can be tender with ourselves and one another 💖
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Jun 8
Chronic illness forces you to confront how quickly society withdraws tenderness from people who can no longer perform normalcy.
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Alyssa 🌿💫Jun 7
I don’t trust any feminism that expects disabled people to be endlessly productive in order to be considered liberated.
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Alex Iantaffi
Jun 6
Such a vital article by Christabel Mintah-Galloway! I love this quote in particular.
You cannot relate across cultures from a place of cultural void. You will either make yourself small to prove you are a good ally, or you will disengage completely. Neither of those routes leads to collective liberation. Find yourself first
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Alex Iantaffi
Jun 5
I am practicing sharing more of my poetry and maybe, eventually, I might share pieces from the memoir and fiction pieces I am writing. For now, this is a poem I wrote a month or so ago…
To live in spite
I wrote this poem after reading Nina McConigley’s wonderful debut novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder. Despite the main character and I having few, if any, positionalities in common, I resonated with the descriptions of her inner world and the impact of CSA. I hesitated to share this, as I often do with my more personal writing. After a few weeks…
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vōxJun 4
A society obsessed with productivity will always treat disabled bodies like a moral problem instead of a human reality.
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Alex Iantaffi
Jun 3
I wrote a slightly shorter version as a note yesterday but decided to turn it into a proper post. I would love to know what you think. Thank you!
It's time to let go of sanist language if we truly care about mental health
As we shift into June, I’ve been reflecting on something that I notice every May, especially from providers, during mental health month: the paradox of advocating for mental health, while casually using sanist language. Words like “crazy”, “insane”, “mad”, “nuts”, and even “psychotic” and “delusional”, fly around unchallenged, but they’re not neutral. W…
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Brittani James, MD
May 19
The modern patient is expected to be simultaneously sick, employed, organized, emotionally regulated, financially literate, technologically competent, and endlessly resilient.
And when people inevitably struggle under that weight, we call it “noncompliance”.
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Dr. Jen WolkinMay 16
Trauma did NOT make you stronger.
It traumatized you, broke your heart, dysregulated your nervous system, gave you PTSD, sleepless nights, trust issues, connection difficulty, almost killed you, and stole your will to live. @drjenwolkin
YOU made + make yourself stronger…by showing up for yourself after all you’ve been through. XO, Dr. Jen
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vōxMay 28
One thing I wish more non-disabled people understood: mobility aids are not declarations of total incapacity.
They are tools that make participation possible.
Using a wheelchair at an airport may be the reason I can still walk through parts of a trip later. Sitting down before my body crashes is often what prevents a more dangerous crash entirely.
But our culture sees accommodations as something you earn only after complete physical devastation.
There’s very little room for preventative care. Very …
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