Peace and Rich's Blessings.

And this is Take Back Your Mind, Life Question of the Week.

I always love going into the grab bag and pulling out a wonderful question that you have asked.

And so today we have such a question.

This question is from Edward.

Edward is hailing from Germany.

He says, I identify as transgender.

I've done a lot of healing work recently and am clear about who I am.

However, I still find it very hard sometimes to stay on my path of authenticity

and not get drowned

into political controversies, opinions, concerns, and doubts of others, while also

dealing with the queer phobia that is still very present in my culture and in many

other cultures around the world.

I try to treat myself with patience and kindness. I also have great friends.

However, if you have any words of wisdom and encouragement on how I can stay patient with myself,

despite many outside pressures, I would be very, very grateful.

Edward, thank you for writing in.

Obviously, in your particular question, you speak about the fact that you're treating yourself with patients and with kindness and you have great friends.

That's a tremendous start, how you treat yourself.

I would add a couple of things.

Obviously, there's always going to be haters. Generally, haters are people that unconsciously or consciously are entrenched with

some kind of fear of what they may perceive as the other. And so they have a kind of a phobia

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