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“We need our most weird parts to be our most wonderful selves. And as we become more wonderful, we become more weird! And that’s kind of what flourishing looks like in the universe.”

— Dominic Longo

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This Pride Month we are thrilled to welcome back Dominic Longo, founder of Flourishing Gays and author of Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults. Dominic’s work is devoted to catalyzing and cultivating the transformational journeys of other LGBTQ+ leaders, helping them leverage their unique experiences as queer individuals into strengths that foster courageously authentic and highly-effective leadership. Queer Flourishing is a field guide for those who want to flourish in every aspect of their lives; a pioneering work that fills in the gaps in the self-help landscape where queer identities are often overlooked.

Dominic sits down with Andy to discuss “queer superpowers,” 10 adaptive patterns and capabilities developed in response to the unique adversities queer individuals face, and shares how tending to the woundedness of the most powerful parts of ourselves with a trauma-informed approach can help us live our best lives as flourishing, queer adults.

"Self-Portrait as So Much Potential" by Chen Chen 

Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango.
As friendly as a tomato. Merciless to chin & shirtfront.
Realizing I hate the word “sip.”
But that’s all I do.
I drink. So slowly.
& say I’m tasting it. When I’m just bad at taking in liquid.
I’m no mango or tomato. I’m a rusty yawn in a rumored year. I’m an arctic attic.
Come amble & ampersand in the slippery polar clutter.
I am not the heterosexual neat freak my mother raised me to be.
I am a gay sipper, & my mother has placed what’s left of her hope on my brothers.
She wants them to gulp up the world, spit out solid degrees, responsible grandchildren ready to gobble.
They will be better than mangoes, my brothers.
Though I have trouble imagining what that could be.
Flying mangoes, perhaps. Flying mango-tomato hybrids. Beautiful sons.

Show Notes:

• Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults by F. Dominic Longo, Ph.D.

• Flourishing Gays

• #94 Queer Flourishing (with Dominic Longo)

Connect with Andy:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​