Table of Contents for Live True to Yourself
Safety Issues
Questions to Help You Learn About Yourself
- What Does Resilience Mean to You?
- What Are Your Strengths and What Gets in Your Way? (Exercise)
How Sexual and Gender Identities Develop
- How Minority Stress Affects Identity and Health
- Different Ways to Accept Yourself and Be Yourself
- How Feeling Proud of All of Who You Are Builds Strength and Courage
- Different Paths in Sexual and Gender Identity
- How People’s Needs and Goals Change Throughout Life
- Building Understanding Across Differences
- Appreciating and Creating Your Own Timeline (Exercise)
 Identity Management for Young LGBTQIA+ Disabled Persons
 Options to Strengthen Personal Resilience and Self-Protection
- Developing Your Sense of Self: Focusing on You, Not Controlling Others
- Knowing Your Values and Acting on Them (Exercises)
- Meeting Your Needs Assertively (Exercises)
- The Way I See It (Narrative)
- Developing Your Own Queer Identity, Queer Pride, and Queer Purpose (Exercises)
Responding to Sexual and Gender Minority Stress at Work
- Understanding Your Options and Strategies
- Learning from Coauthor DiClementi’s Assertiveness (Narrative)
- Understanding the Need for Social Safety and Allies
- Using Mindfulness at Work
Managing Sexual, Faith, and Ethnic Development in College (Narrative)
Developing Self-Resilience, Social Resilience, and Spiritual Resilience
- Developing Self-Resilience
- Developing Social Resilience
- Developing Spiritual Resilience
 Experiencing Wonderment and Awe in Nature
Navigating Rural Communities and Small Towns
Feeling Good About Aging
- Concerns Facing Older Sexual and Gender Minority Adults
- Options for Responding Assertively to Aging and Stigma
- Aging in Place
Conclusion
Handout: Options for Responding Assertively to Minority Stress and Life Stress
Contributors’ Bios