Think Queerly

Gay, Straight, or Queer, We All Want Love.

We all want to be connected with others, to be cared for, and to be accepted for who we are. To different degrees, that’s what we call love.

Your beliefs abou…

Lachlan Smith grew up in Australia before moving to the UK in his early twenties. Growing up, he was a passionate cricketer and a fan. After coming out, he gave up the sport, not seeing it as compati…

About two months ago, I decided to withhold Part IV of my “Where You Stand” moral philosophy article series. It was titled, “Towards a Harmonizing, Universal Morality Based in the Tao Te Ching.” It w…

Take a few, deep breaths and then get curious about why you feel that way.

Being curious isn't going to solve all your problems. However, being curious is great for your state of mind and for the humi…

In this episode of Think Queerly, I speak with Jon Carl Lewis, the founder of Sex and the Gay Christian. He is also one of my coaching clients.

Jon Carl Lewis has studied theology, scripture, discernm…

In a recent coaching session, my client asked me to send instructions on how to craft his "statements of self-truth."

He was telling me about using affirmations and trying to think positive. We had a …

The cliché, “Success leaves clues” is telling. Success is nothing more than a process of completed actions that accumulate like the run-out sands in an hourglass and manifest as the accomplishment of…

This Personal Evolution Practice supports both parts of my Success & Failure article series. You can read Part I on Curious, Your Understanding of the Meaning of Failure Could Be the Reason for Unrea…

In today's episode, I discuss,

• The meanings of failure that have nothing to do with personal accomplishment.
• I ask if failure is really a lack of success?
• How failure is a misunderstood and misapplied w…

If you create something, but there’s no one to appreciate it, is there a point? 

If your initial desire was to make money, not having an audience is a problem. 

But what if you are compelled from somet…

It’s not death that we are afraid of, it’s living.

We hold ourselves back from living fully, playfully, authentically, unabashedly, and freely. We waste our lives planning for a moment when our consci…

In this episode, I dive deep into the nature of dualities from a Taoist perspective and speak to the synthesis and harmonization of opposites — better expressed as dualities. I quote Wing-Tsit Chan’s…

In part I and part II of this series (the previous episode, 171) I discussed the qualities that define our humanity and support one’s integrity. These qualities include your character traits, core va…

Do You Know the Qualities that Support Your Integrity — Your Foundation in Life?
There are many things that define our humanity. What I share in this episode are the qualities that aspire to our moral…

In this deeply personal episode, I share my thoughts about how far we have come, and how far we still have to go regarding universal human dignity. Throughout history, humans have exercised and pract…

"Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada" is described as, “Canada’s definitive visual guide to LGBTQ2+ movements, struggles, and achievements.”

I’m honoured to bring you this in…

Creating Anything New is a Form of Transformation.

Metaphorically, transformation is like the potential that exists inside an apple seed. Without water and soil for it to take root, the apple seed rem…

We are creatures of habit.

We find it easy to do the things we have repeatedly done, so long as the original conditions that supported that habit or action are still relevant or present. So, what does…

On the morning of New Year’s Eve, I published, “Your 2020 Year-End-Review Personal Evolution Process.” I shared a simple 5-step journaling process to review the meaningful highlights, milestones, and…

“The grace to live with an inner sense of delight.”

I am pleased to share this intimate discussion with my cousin, Kelly Walker. If ever there were a person to speak with about the fragile but necessa…