Xtra Despair

Welcome to What’s Helping Today, a newsletter about the everyday work of staying alive on earth, by author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen.

Hi all,

I wanted to quickly share this piece by Jude Ellison S. Doyle for Xtra about how trans people are surviving despair during these times.

My work and this very newsletter are featured towards the end…

Once again, here’s the link. Recommended for trans people especially, as well as those who care about us and want to stay tuned into how hard these really times are — and what we can do about it.

Re-linking some of my latest newsletters on relevant topics, just in case:

• Advice for shitty af times

• Advice for cis people feeling despair

• On suicide itself

• On worry

• On breathing, the latest. Includes practical advice about how we can use our breaths to calm ourselves down — even anxious guys like me!

Thanks for reading.

Take care,
Sandy

p.s. As you have maybe have noticed I am often making playlists, mostly of like ambient music, sometimes other / weirder stuff too. This is one I’ve had on this winter called sounds of healing in isolation.

p.p.s. 🎶 You are not alone my friend 🎶

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