therapy Archives - Rick Clemons - Unapologetic Coming Out Expert

214: Find Your Gay Wellness Match – Peter DeWitt

By Rick Clemons | 03/03/2023

Making your way through life as a gay man can be challenging. Then finding the right support whether that be for your mental, physical, or spiritual health can be even more challenging. Realizing this was a common issue for so many gay men, Peter DeWitt, founded Gay Wellness – a one-stop hub for finding therapists,…

307: Uncloseting Spirituality & The Business of Sex – Lance Navarro

By Rick Clemons | 08/29/2018

Have you ever wished you could find a place to learn, grow, let go, connect and enjoy absolute bliss and ecstatic pleasure? Sounds great doesn’t it! But then you find yourself stopping yourself, or someone else stopping you all because it might be taboo, wrong, or scary. Scary to let yourself be yourself. Scary to…

301: Coming Out To Be The Gay, White Oprah – Matt (Mattie) Marr

By Rick Clemons | 08/08/2018

Some people are gifted, then some people are gifted with the gift of gab. So what do you do when you are from Southern Oklahoma, have the gift of gab, and love to act…you move to Beverly Hills of course. Well maybe you don’t live in Beverly Hills, but you are Beverly Hills adjacent and…

298: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Stop Apologizing

By Rick Clemons | 07/27/2018

Today we continue to explore the real truths as to why you can’t get your shit together. I’m sorry to be so blunt. Oh wait. No I’m not, and I’m not going to apologize for telling it like it is. You see, that’s part of the problem…to much apologizing! We apologize for being ourselves, doing…

296: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Quit Living Someone Else’s Dreams

By Rick Clemons | 07/20/2018

Ok, you’re stuck and trying to figure out your next steps for getting your shit together. Over and over again you make a run at it and before you know it, you’re still stuck. But it’s not really you that’s stuck, it’s your dream that is stuck because it’s not your dream but someone else’s…

295: The Art of Discomfort – Polis Loizou

By Rick Clemons | 07/18/2018

Where does never following conventions or bowing down to peer pressure lead you? To start a London-based theatre company despite never having previously studied theatre or staged a show, of course. Or maybe it leads you to get lost in Marrakech as a teenager or becoming completely exposed in a Japanese Onsen. All of these…

294: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Stop Making Excuses

By Rick Clemons | 07/13/2018

OMG. This is my worst nightmare, and probably yours too, but you may not be admitting it yet. We are a society addicted to making excuses. Yes addicted. Shocking as that may seem, we make excuses, like we change our underwear. And then we wonder why we can’t make headway, be successful, or get our…

292: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Confronting Confusion

By Rick Clemons | 07/06/2018

You’re struggling to get on track. It’s a part of getting your shit together, but one thing that just keeps creeping up is the constant CONFUSION. Should you do this, or do that? If you do it, will it be the right move? CONFUSION, CONFUSION, CONFUSION. So how do you remedy the situation? YOU CONFRONT…

288: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Admit it. You Don’t Have Your Shit Together

By Rick Clemons | 06/22/2018

Here’s the thing. None of us really has our shit together. We all have shit, shit, shit in our lives. So don’t let anyone tell you they’ve totally got it together. But when you don’t feel like you do have your shit together, sometimes it’s validating to realize, “I’m not alone!” Here’s a few insights…

275: LGBTQ Acceptance Work Is Never Done – Amy McDonald

By Rick Clemons | 05/09/2018

Sure gay marriage is a constitutional right…at least for now. And if you monitor pop culture, you might think that LGBTQ folks are just a standard presence, so why are we still having this conversation. The truth is, 42 percent of LGBT — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender — adults experience workplace discrimination. 85 percent of…