Something Positive for Positive People

Something Positive for Positive People

Interviews with people living with herpes simplex virus (HSV), which is the virus that causes herpes outbreaks. Hear experiences from everyday people on how they navigate stigma from diagnosis to dating to disclosure.

Episodes

December 18, 2020
The title speaks for itself. After so many individual interactions with people living with HSV, and then attending in person social groups for people with HSV, I notice that there's a major willingness to heal from the individual, and the attendees. The only difference is the risk-reward tolerance from person who will only speak to me as someone who's already made their status known, compared to the person willing to put th...
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Dee was diagnosed with herpes 5 years ago 2 weeks after her then boyfriend now husband had his first symptoms. We don't hear stories that touch on how to navigate staying together after a positive diagnosis occurs in an exclusive/committed/monogamous (whichever you choose to call it, relationship. Herpes is extremely common. This untold story is the first of its kind shared here, but it does happen. Most people's struggle...
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Our working definition of disclosure fatigue is being tired of telling people something about yourself that's important for them to know but they may not know about, so you have to educate them and almost convince them to accept what's being disclosed. On my Instagram account @HonMyChest I've been sharing about this topic from the SPFPP audience. It's interesting how disclosure fatigue shows up and how there ar...
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Dating sites exclusive to people living with HSV or STIs in general serve their purpose depending on where a person is along the processing of their diagnosis. After receiving a positive herpes diagnosis, the pamphlet says how common it is, but where is everyone who has it? Where are my dating options? Where do I have the best chances of not being rejected for my status? Listen here for answers.

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I’ve been tested at this non profit organization prior to its name change and I hope that this and upcoming episodes will encourage people to seek out these kinds of places because they are doing it RIGHT ya’ll. The Director of Prevention Services, Jon Martin, sits down with me masked up and 6 feet apart in order to discuss the importance of diversity on staff when providing the customer service experience especially in regards t...
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If you've ever just BEEN with someone (emphasis on BEEN) then you understand that you experience this sense of peace and freedom that comes with not having to modify your behavior around them. Whereas when you're being WITH someone (emphasis on WITH) where you may resist your natural state of existence somehow. I talk through the experience of being WITH and BEING with myself and how that's come into my awareness after...
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Liz and I have been missing one another for this interview since she first learned she was pregnant. It only took a pandemic and me getting COVID to sit my ass down for long enough to catch up with her. We talk about dating while pregnant with HSV, her leaving her 5 year relationship and living her best life for a short time if you know what I mean, and having gotten herpes from the person she was hoping it was because she liked ...
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Some of the herbs mentioned in this podcast episode Dave is trying out are:

Anti-herpetic Activity of Macrocystis pyrifera and Durvillaea antarctica Algae Extracts Against HSV-1 and HSV-2. Then there's Lomatium Dissectum. Links below:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.02006/full

https://barlowherbal.com/pages/faq

https://barlowherbal.com/products/munityboost-2-oz

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Diagnosed with genital HSV2 at age 17, we catch up with 21 year old Gemini who really demonstrates how far of a difference there is in how her disclosure experiences went compared to mine being a decade apart in age. We talk about secondarily disclosure where your friends all know already so if someone you know second hand is interested in dating you, then they do it for you. What's interesting is that those friends who know al...
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I chat with former traveling Canadian, Christian speaker, Meagan, who spoke to high school kids with a non profit organization called “Live Different” sharing her story about her herpes diagnosis for 5.5 years. Meagan shares the reality of what it means to be open about your status as a career before you've done your own healing. After experiencing compassion fatigue to the extreme, she shut off her emotions and went from enthu...
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After ending her divorce from her first everything, our guest this week shares her experience entering the dating world after having done everything 'right' and then ending up with someone who did not disclose their HSV status to her. As we talk through her experience, you get a sense that he knew he had it and the point of realization was where she just got an intuitive nudge to open a drawer where his acyclovir prescribed...
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You ever disclose your HSV status to a potential partner and they still agree to move forward with physical intimacy? Afterwards, did you ever find yourself annoyed with them, recognizing areas of incompatibility, realizing you've become someone you aren't in the relationship and then look up and it's been a few months or years that this has been going on and now you want out? Or how about this . . . Have you ever found...
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September 5, 2020 2 mins

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www.betterhelp.com/spfpp gets you 10% off your first month of counseling services.

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Internalized herpes stigma looks like self shaming ourselves and masking it with external behaviors like disclosing our positive HSV status to someone low risk. By low risk, I simply mean their acceptance or approval of us carries little to no value. However, we're either looking to have our beliefs challenged or validated by their response. This episode will challenge that in you. Check it out!

For 30% off your first at home ST...

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Internalized herpes stigma looks like self shaming ourselves and masking it with external behaviors like disclosing our positive HSV status to someone low risk. By low risk, I simply mean their acceptance or approval of us carries little to no value. However, we're either looking to have our beliefs challenged or validated by their response. This episode will challenge that in you. Check it out!

For 30% off your first at home ST...

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For 30% off your first at home STI testing kit, visit www.trylgc.com/spfpp and enter code spfpp at checkout.

For 10% off your first month of counseling services, please visit www.betterhelp.com/spfpp

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visit www.trylgc.com/spfpp and enter code spfpp at checkout to save 30% off your at home STI test kit.

www.betterhelp.com/spfpp will save you 10% off your first month of counseling services.

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