Table of Contents for Living 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?

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
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Identity Management for Young LGBTQIA+ Disabled Persons

Options to Strengthen Personal Resilience and Self-Protection

• Building Your Sense of Self: Focusing on You, Not Controlling Others
• Knowing Your Values and Acting on Them
• Meeting Your Needs Assertively
• The Way I See It (Narrative by Néo)
• Developing Your Own Queer Identity, Queer Pride, and Queer Purpose
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Responding to Sexual and Gender Minority Stress at Work

• Understanding Your Options and Strategies
• Learning from Coauthor DiClementi’s Assertiveness
• Understanding the Need for Social Safety and Allies
• Using Mindfulness at Work
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Managing Sexual, Faith, and Ethnic Development in College

Develop Self-Resilience, Social Resilience, and Spiritual Resilience

• Developing Self-Resilience
• Developing Social Resilience
• Developing Spiritual Resilience
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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

Options for Responding Assertively to Minority Stress and General Life Stress

• Options for Personal Resilience and Self-Protection
• Options for Relationship Resilience and Social Safety
• Options for Community Resilience and Mutual Care