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June 22, 2023 83 mins

In honor of Pride month here in the US, I wanted to bring you a genuine conversation with a number of dear friends of mine about our own discoveries about our places in the LGBTQIA+ universe. We’re having a frank, open discussion about our experiences, our joys, our struggles, and so much more. Regardless of how you (or those in your lives) identify, these issues touch all of us, and I want to help bring greater understanding to my community and to all those whose lives you touch.

I’m joined by three amazing guests – not “experts” per se, simply real people: Kelly Mahalak, Cassandra Coghill, and Chivas Sandage – as we dive into:

  • Our own journeys to self-discovery
  • The terms we use to describe ourselves, and the challenges in using these terms
  • Compulsory heterosexuality
  • Coming out is not a one-time thing
  • The privilege and curse of “passing”
  • The many joys in our lives related to our queerness

Laughter. Tears. Deep truths. This conversation has it all!!!

About Cassandra A. Coghill

I am Cassandra A. Coghill, a Relationship Alchemist and Intimacy Guide.

I am a healer, a priestess, and a witch.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Women and Gender Studies, with a minor in Human Development and Family Science, from North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND. (Go Bison!) 

While attending college, I became a certified Reiki Master Practitioner and gave birth to my first child. While pregnant with my second child, I was initiated onto the path of priestesshood at the Goddess Temple of Ashland, Oregon. I am also an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church.

A powerful inner call to understand the mysteries of life lead me into the study of metaphysics and the occult from a young age. I have been a practicing solitary white witch for the past 11 years. I have studied the Tarot since 2014 and consult it and other oracles for myself and my clients regularly. I work with the so-called “classical” or “Western” elements of Air, Water, Fire and Earth in nearly everything I do. My love for the so-called “Eastern” traditions runs deep (I’ve studied yoga, tantra, ayurveda, traditional chinese medicine, feng shui and Buddhist philosophy informally but extensively); but, as a person of predominantly British ancestry, the deepest and most powerful magick I bring forth tends to be drawn from ancient, indigenous European traditions, rituals, symbologies and myths. I commune with angels, dance with faeries and sing the songs of my ancestors regularly.”

To learn more about and follow Cassandra:

Facebook.com/Cassandra.coghill.37
Instagram.com/Cassandra.coghill

About Chivas Sandage

Chivas Sandage teaches women’s writing workshops on Zoom and also works privately as a coach, editor, and consultant. Her workshops and coaching packages support women who want to heal and deepen their relationship with writing, generate new work, revise and edit, complete a project, give public readings, and publish. Chivas is a digital columnist at Ms. Magazine and her debut nonfiction book is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. She won the 2021 Claire Keyes Poetry Award a

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