Ep. #147: Coming Out Late Retreat Stories from Portland, OR (Part 1)

In this episode of the Coming Out Late podcast, you’ll hear Robin & Chris facilitate a virtual discussion with nearly all who attended the Coming Out Late Retreat to Portland, OR last month. You’ll hear firsthand the life-changing effects that this retreat had on its attendees. 

Today, you’ll hear retreat attendees reflecting-on and discussing the following:

• How ‘connection’ and ‘community’ play such a vital role in experiencing and walking through this coming out late journey!
• How we find comfort and growth in hearing other’s stories and realizing, helping us to realize, “I’m not alone!”
• How, (if at all), did they feel differently between the pre-retreat zoom gathering, and the post-retreat zoom gathering?
• How, through mindful meditation and journaling, did we answer the question, “How would I be different if I were not impacted by social conditioning?”
• How simply ‘showing up’ immediately helped us all feel ‘grounded’!
• The Coming Out Late Retreat to Provincetown, MA has been canceled!
• Wanna support your “Coming Out Late” podcast? Then please consider buying Robin a “virtual” coffee as a sign of your appreciation. Simply go to: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RobinDouglass

RESOURCES:

SUPPORT GROUPS:

MESSY MIDDLE MONDAYS: EVERY Monday, 75 mins; 8pm EST, Zoom, $5 pp each week via Buy Me A Coffee. Register each week using this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RobinDouglass/e/165736

THE GENDER EXPANSIVE EDITION: EVERY Tuesday, 75 mins; 8pm EST, Zoom, $5pp each week via Buy Me A Coffee. Register each week using this link: https://buymeacoffee.com/robindouglass/e/253374

NOT-STRAIGHT SUPPORT GROUP: EVERY Wednesday, 75 mins; 12:30pm EST, Zoom, $5pp each week via Buy Me A Coffee. Register each week using this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RobinDouglass/e/93135

COMING OUT LATE RETREATS: Attending a Coming Out Late Retreat in-person, is a MUST DO for 2024. Spaces are limited, so act now! The dates for the last Coming Out Late retreat are: Traverse City, MI: (Sept. 25-29); and Provincetown, MA: CANCELED. Email Robin to Register NOW: Comingoutlater@gmail.com

PRIVATE 1:1 COACHING w/ROBIN DOUGLASS Struggling to make sense-of and MANAGE this new aspect of your COMING OUT LATE life? Then send me an email and request my 1:1 Coaching Information Sheet. It really does make a BIG difference to have someone like myself who ‘gets you’ and who has been through it. Email me at Comingoutlater@gmail.com for my Coaching Info Sheet.

SUPPORT ROBIN’S PODCAST: Wanna support our “Coming Out Late” podcast? Then please consider buying Robin a “virtual” coffee as a sign of your appreciation. Simply go to: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RobinDouglass

JOIN the COMING OUT LATE FACEBOOK GROUP: If you are AFAB, a transwoman, nonbinary, lesbian, androgynous, bi-, pan-, and have recently, or ARE coming out late in life - join us in my private facebook group, “Coming Out Late”. Here’s the link:  www.facebook.com/groups/209443717714063/ .