Inspired by our recent interview with Jess Vosseteig, author of Affirmations for Queer People, for today’s minisode we are sharing a few affirmations of our own!
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[00:00:00] Hi, Evan. Welcome back to our many soaps. Thank you. Last week, our listeners heard an episode about the book queer affirmations by Jess Wastataang. We got to talk to Jess about their affirmations book, their creative process, kind of the rule of affirmations, especially for queer folks.
[00:00:24] It was a great conversation, so if you missed it for some reason and not here, make sure that you go back and listen to that after you listen to it today's episode.
[00:00:32] Yeah. And we are doing a giveaway of a copy of Jess's beautiful book and for all of the details for the giveaway to see how you can enter.
[00:00:40] We want to go find us on patreon.com slash the biopod. The giveaway will end August 4th, which if you're listening in real time, that is this Sunday. We've got a couple days left to go enter and you could win a beautiful hardcover copy of this awesome book.
[00:00:58] Yes, we would also encourage you if you missed the giveaway window or you aren't the person that wins a copy to go out and get the book for yourself. We think that you will really enjoy it.
[00:01:14] Absolutely. It also makes a great gift for the queer folks in your life. Yeah. Oh, and we should say that the giveaway is on patreon but is open to anyone regardless of whether you are a paying subscriber or not.
[00:01:32] Yeah, you just have to be subscribed but you can subscribe for free. So as a follow up to talking about Jess's wonderful affirmation book, we wanted to do some affirmations of our own. Yeah, we wanted to affirm ourselves and each other and you.
[00:01:54] And preparing for this episode. I texted you yesterday and was like, I don't have any affirmations. I'm not sure what to say.
[00:02:02] And you were like, what do you want to hear when you feel like you don't exist? And I was like, I cannot interact with this right now. I'm full of fun away.
[00:02:12] It was a helpful prompt but in the moment I was like, I need a couple hours. I'll come back. Yeah, so we are going to read affirmations. I haven't heard Evans and Evan has not heard mine. So this will be a surprise for us.
[00:02:29] We're also going to put a version of this episode that is just the affirmations on our patreon. So if you are having a rough day and you just want to hear us affirm you and you don't want to hear us chat about a giveaway,
[00:02:45] you can find that a file over on patreon for you.
[00:02:48] Yeah, the format is going to be that we will give you the affirmation. We'll take a breath and then we will repeat the affirmation a second time and maybe that time you want to say it along with us. You are doing enough. You are doing enough.
[00:03:17] Being yourself is queer enough. Being yourself is queer enough. Your community wants to support you. It is always okay to reach out and ask for help. Your community wants to support you. It is always okay to reach out and ask for help.
[00:03:50] Every relationship you have been in or will be in is a queer one because you are in it. Every relationship you have been in or will be in is a queer one because you are in it.
[00:04:10] There is balance and power in the universe. So there is balance and power within you, as above so below, as within, so without. and power within you as above so below, as within so without.
[00:04:38] There are people in the world who will love you, not in spite of who you are, but because of it. There are people in the world who will love you, not in spite of
[00:04:58] who you are, but because of it. I love that. It's nice to be affirmed. Yeah. I feel like our affirmations sort of went together. Like I was like you're doing enough and you were like you're queer enough and I was like we are on the same page
[00:05:18] everybody. Beautiful. We hope that you, your listener, feel affirmed. We were talking to you. So yeah, that was for you. If you have your own affirmations you want to share, you know where to find us. We're always down to listen. Please go to our Patreon to
[00:05:42] enter that giveaway and if you liked these affirmations definitely check out just as book. Yeah. We'll put a link to that in the description of this episode. Well, goodbye!