Moraya DeGeare on Navigating Your Grief Amidst A Partner’s Identity Explosion

2024-11-12

Identity explosion is an internal shift in how someone perceives and/or expresses their place in the world (and it can include anything from gender to sexuality to motherhood, religion, and more). Moraya Seeger DeGeare is a neurodivergent Black Biracial therapist, and the granddaughter of famed musician Pete Seeger. Growing up in Beacon NY in a home filled with extended family, music, art, activism and achievement, she learned early to be aware of the spaces that she occupied, and how s...

Identity explosion is an internal shift in how someone perceives and/or expresses their place in the world (and it can include anything from gender to sexuality to motherhood, religion, and more).

Moraya Seeger DeGeare is a neurodivergent Black Biracial therapist, and the granddaughter of famed musician Pete Seeger. Growing up in Beacon NY in a home filled with extended family, music, art, activism and achievement, she learned early to be aware of the spaces that she occupied, and how she was perceived. Currently a couples therapist specializing in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Moraya also authors the monthly Refinery29 column called 'Can We Talk,' so she bears witness to a lot of what is changing about society…beginning on the inside.

Today’s podcast covers something that’s been coming up a lot recently in her sessions with clients. How to navigate the grief a person can feel when their partner experiences an identity explosion, while also staying supportive. Some explosions involve more externally visible changes than others…but they all alter the romantic relationship. In particular gender-based identity explosions can be complicated to navigate, but also a chance to grow closer, if handled with care. Are heteronormative relationships destined not to survive it? Are queer or gender fluid couples necessarily better equipped to work through the confusion in order to hold on to the love? What does working through something like a gender transition or a sexuality transition raise to the surface in terms of the assumptions we all make…in every relationship of our lives?

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