Second Adolescence
Conversations about Second Adolescence - the messy, exhilarating, awkward, healing-filled LGBTQ+ adulthood that comes after growing up in an anti-queer world. Hosted by Adam James Cohen, a licensed psychotherapist and a fellow human who navigated his own Second Adolescence. For more, visit: www.secondadolescencepod.com
Episodes
69 episodes
Ep. 65: Liz Rhea (she/her) on Breaking Free to Exist Fully
On this week's episode we have Liz Rhea (she/her). Liz is a therapist who many folks may know on social media for her really helpful work of providing an affirming, validating, and helpful perspective about what it means to be a therapist and h...
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Ep 64: Tom Bruett, LMFT (he/him) on Couples & Relationship Therapy for Gay Men
Today we have couples and relationship therapist, Tom Bruett, LMFT (he/him). Tom specializes in supporting gay men and is the author of The Go To Relationship Guide for Gay Men: From Honeymoon to Lasting Commitment (
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Ep. 63: Brandan Robertson (he/him) on Being Queer & Christian
On today’s episode, we have Brandan Robertson (he/him). Brandan is known on the internet as the “TikTok Pastor,” with lots of folks tuning into his inclusive theological digital content across social media. I was curious to have Brandan come on...
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Ep. 62: Help and Healing From Male Escorts: One Man’s Story of Stepping Into His Queerness While Grieving His Late Wife
Our guest on today’s episode is a man we’re going to call "David" - David is not his real name, he’s using a pseudonym. We recorded this conversation about a year into his uncovering his bisexuality in his early 60s, something he starte...
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Ep 61: Valerie Baker (she/they) on Late Blooming After Fundamentalist Religious Upbringings
This week’s guest is Valerie Baker (she/they). In this episode, Valerie shares with us about her experience coming into her queerness in her 30s after growing up within a culture of religious fundamentalism. They share with us about childhood, ...
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Ep. 60: Lucas Wilson (he/him) - From Conversion Therapy to Queer Liberation
This week's guest is Lucas Wilson (he/him). Lucas is the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy, which features personal essays written by survivors about their experience in Conversion Therapy (CT). L...
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Ep 59: Steve Spencer (he/him) on Navigating Biphobia and HIV Stigma
September is Bisexuality Visibility Month, and I’m excited to kick it off with this week’s guest, Steve Spencer (he/him). Steve is award-winning bi+ and HIV advocate, researcher, and consultant. Steve is a bi, HIV positive man who is doing so m...
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Ep. 58: Tyler Tetreault, MD (he/him) on Creating Spaces We Didn't Have Access To
This week’s guest is Tyler Tetreault, MD (he/him). In this conversation, Tyler shares with us about his journey as a transgender man who transitioned during his residency, and how his personal experience has lit a fire to create more space for ...
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Ep. 57: Morgan Henry Kerr (she/her) on Trying to Conceive as Queer Prospective Parents
This week’s guest is Morgan Henry Kerr (she/her). Morgan joined us to talk about all things ups and downs of being a queer person trying to conceive. Morgan shares her own personal journey creating her family, and shares about the work she's do...
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Ep: 56: Archie Arnold (he/him) and The Joy and Grief of Finding Ourselves Later
This week’s guest is Archie Arnold (he/him). Archie has a powerful story of being someone who just recently in his early fifties came to full understanding of his identity as a gay trans man. Archie lets us into his own story of uncovering his ...
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Ep 55: Rohan Shirolkar (he/him) on Healing the Shameful Differentness Our Younger Selves Internalized
This week’s guest is Rohan Shirolkar (he/him). As a husband and new father, Rohan’s story has taken him to a place he didn’t see possible at its beginning, growing up as a gay boy in India in the 1980s/1990s. On this episode, Rohan shares with ...
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Ep 54: Mod Becher (he/they) on Navigating Internal and External Conflict on the Path to Ourselves
This week’s guest is artist and actor, Mod Becher (he/they). I actually met Mod out in real life while being a patron at his workplace, which we go into, and it eventually led to me sharing about the podcast and unbeknownst to me Mod was naviga...
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Ep. 53: SJ Janjua (they/them) and The Symbiosis of Individual and Community Liberation
This week’s guest is diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging leader and practitioner, SJ Janjua (they/them). In this conversation, SJ leads us through their own personal journey and how this has led them to doing the work they are doing now...
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Ep. 52: Alonso Yáñez (he/him) and The Layers of Shame We Heal
This week’s guest is artist Alonso Yáñez (he/him). Alonso shares with us about his own continuous journey of reckoning with and healing from the layers of shame that have existed and taken shape for him. He highlights the shape-shifting quality...
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Ep. 51: Helping LGBTQ+ Elders Thrive and Feel Seen with SAGE
This week, we dive into a conversation about the experience of LGBTQ+ elderhood in the United States with two women who work with SAGE, the world's largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ elders and their care...
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Ep 50: Working With Our Younger Selves to Deepen Queer Healing
What does it mean to "work with our younger selves," and why even bother? In this solo episode with me (host, Adam James Cohen, LMFT!) we will cover this and more. We ALL carry the wounds of our younger selves. And, like ghosts wit...
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Ep 49: Jared Dixon (he/him) on Recovery from the Trauma of Conversion Therapy
This week’s guest is writer Jared Dixon (he/him). Jared is a conversion therapy (CT) survivor and this conversation is all about his experience with CT. Jared lets us in to his personal story. We hear about his experience growing up, discoverin...
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Listeners! Submit YOUR Questions for Q&A Episodes!
Adam here, sharing about a new thing we’re going to be doing here on Second Adolescence!Since launching this podcast and Instagram community a couple years ago, I’ve received SO many DMs and emails from listeners sharing about their own ...
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Ep. 48: Bi+ (In)visibility w/ Meg O'Neill (she/her) and Rebecca Minor, LCSW (she/her)
This week we have two guests joining us, Meg O’Neill and returning guest to the pod, Gender Specialist therapist and educator Rebecca Minor (from episode 36!). They are the women behind
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Ep 47: Dr. Leah Goodman (she/they) on Support Groups & Group Therapy for Queer Healing
This week’s guest is Leah Goodman, OTD, OTR/L, MSW, CYT (she/they). Leah is a therapist and education manager at The Expansive Group, a collective of queer and trans affirming therapists, led by Casey Tanner (also known on instagram as @queerse...
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Ep 46: Nathan Serrato (they/he) and the Identities We Adapted to Defend Against Shame
This week’s guest is Nathan Serrato (they/he). Nathan is a PCC Certified Life Coach, Trauma Informed Yoga and Breathwork Instructor, and Queer Mindset Coach. Nathan helps queer folks overcome and heal from shame and religious trauma. In this co...
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Ep 45: Queer Style Coach, Tess Clabby (they/them) on Finding Your Style as a Tool for Queer Healing
This week's guest is queer style coach, Tess Clabby (they/them), and wow - this was such a fun, playful, and meaningful episode. At its core, this episode with Tess is an invitation for all of us to get more attuned to our most true and free se...
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Ep 44: Khalid El Khatib (he/him) and The Nonlinear Path to Queer Healing
This week's guest is writer Khalid El Khatib (he/him). I originally invited Khalid onto the show after a tweet of his was sent to me that so embodied the healing process in S...
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Ep 43: Aimy Tien (she/they) of The Queer Joy Project
On this week's episode we have artist and founder of The Queer Joy Project, Aimy Tien (she/they). The Queer Joy Project is a multimedia project that celebrates queer stories: daily lived ex...
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Ep 42: Eli Lawliet, PhD on Supporting Ourselves and Our Community Through Social and Political Stress
Today's guest is Eli Lawliet, PhD (he/him), known by many as The Gender Doula. This is the conversation to listen to for any of you who may be feeling some stress, anxiety, and fear in response...
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