Your Weekly Reset

Your Weekly Reset brings inspiration, motivation and a new way of looking at the struggles and triumphs of crossdresser’s or transgender person’s journey.

My Odyssey

Fiona Black October 26, 2023 Your Weekly Reset 21

I recently looked through a dictionary for a word to help me solve a clue in a crossword puzzle and came across the word “odyssey,” which was defined as “a long wandering usually marked by many changes of fortune.” It struck me that this definition was also a good descrip...

Ten Years (part 2)

Triesste August 22, 2023 Your Weekly Reset 0

Well, July was quite a month! On July 8th, as mentioned in my previous article, the Tokyo Closet Ball held our tenth anniversary show. The audience was relatively small but wildly enthusiastic. Tributes came from former members in Canada and Belgium. We had our version of the ...

My New Name

Brielle January 5, 2023 Your Weekly Reset 54

On December 16, 2022, Brielle was officially, legally born. She’d been gestating for nearly 6 decades, but with a family court judge’s ruling, Brielle burst out onto the streets of Pittsburgh. How did these events set up? I suppose it all began in 1960. I have clear memories ...

GIRLS, YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH!

Baily Marie Lovejoy February 21, 2022 Your Weekly Reset 35

GIRLS, YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH! From a child we are taught that girls play with dolls and boys play cowboys and Indians, or race cars and other manly things. Girls can wear makeup and boys shouldn’t. Society points us in the direction that it thinks we should go. That’s o...

Happy Holidays?

Char December 20, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 12

I wish you all the most wonderful holiday experience you can imagine, always! So, a while ago, like almost a year ago, I began using a product called Pueraria Mirifica. It is an herbal supplement that I got online that enhances breast growth, or so it promises. Let me first state...

Banning Conversion Therapy!

Ms. Catherine Anne Vos November 12, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 14

My road to banning Conversion Therapy in New Zealand My journey becoming Catherine Anne Vos has been an arduous journey full of potholes and hiccups, or so I thought when I started off. Then again, a part of my journey has never been discussed in real terms. Yes, I heard a...

It’s been how long?

Angela Booth October 11, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 12

It seems like yesterday that I retired from my full-time job and started living and working as Angela. I’ve not had any surgery or taken hormones but have developed myself into the woman I am today. Previously, I was going out so much that I built up great confidence in doing m...

Changing my Perspective

Brianna Rose September 2, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 50

Hello to all the fantastic ladies that live inside this beautiful platform. I ask for your patience and understanding as I ramble on a bit about a topic that has been on my mind. I have been grappling with my feelings about meeting and possibly even dating men. The more I have be...

Are you willing to feeel goood?

Char August 19, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 10

Are you willing to feeel goood? In the past, I have used being authentic as an excuse for feeling dark n twisty. I use the word authentic because there are so many labels used to describe and categorize and compartmentalize who we are or not. If we are to choose a label for anyth...

Getting back to normal?

Char July 7, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 6

So, the world attempting to get back to normal, at least that is the phrase I keep hearing from people around me, over and over. I overhear others having a conversation among themselves saying things are finally getting back to normal. My question is, what specifically is this �...

Something to Celebrate

Char June 30, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 8

Haaaappy Pride Month my beautiful friends. It was not so long ago that the stonewall riots took place, starting a push back that has blossomed into where we are today with parades, banners, and a month every year dedicated to the awareness, acceptance, and even celebration of the...

Transition

Janice May 23, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 15

I have changed my name to Janus! Janus is the Roman god of endings, transitions, and beginnings. This god is often pictured with two faces: either male/male or male/female. I thought it appropriate for my circumstance. If you read my first article “Beginnings” you are...

A playpen without sides

Char April 12, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 11

On October the fourth 1961 Charley was born in eastern Canada. In the living room of the family home sat a playpen; a four-foot by four-foot cage with two-foot-high sides. The adults would keep a baby in a playpen during the first year or so of its life to keep the child relati...

I nearly killed Myself

Char March 14, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 8

Holding on to resentments caused me more than a few decades of misery, suffering, and more than one near-death experience. When I was young, my Dad would jokingly say, “you know you’re having a bad day when the rope breaks”; I never understood that joke, until the day it di...

Don’t Blame Me!

Char March 7, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 4

Hello Beautiful souls, Thank you for your comments and feedback on recent articles, one never knows if a difference is being made without the feedback given; I am grateful. It seems like a lifetime ago that I was sitting in the hot seat of the police station where I was living th...

Who is your True Friend?

Char February 28, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 22

Hello dear souls, this week I ask the question, who is your true friend? Many of us, myself included, have called people our friends, but are they really? In the sentences to follow, in place of any gender-related words, we can also insert anything you feel most ashamed of deep u...

Introducing Stan

Char February 7, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 4

Recently, Cynthia wrote an article that re-spoke two of my favorite quotes: Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory – Jim Carry I ab...

Born to Choose

Char January 24, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 4

Welcome to the New Year my friends; here we go moving forward into 2021 and into the later half of the first month already.! By now, those well made and best intended New Years resolutions might be starting to look like some ancient ruins on a far-off island. For some, I think re...

A Magical Paradox

Char January 10, 2021 Your Weekly Reset 9

It wasn’t until I was into my 30 something stage of life that this paradox became an understanding of a truth for me. You see, most of my life to this point had been a steep downward helix of codependent behaviors and drama; I so desperately wanted to be loved and treated with ...

The Voices in my Head

Char December 6, 2020 Your Weekly Reset 2

Are you one of those people, like me, who hears voices in their head from time to time? The voices I hear speak the loudest whenever I try to expand myself in some way. Like when I wanted to learn how to paint seascapes in acrylic paints, the voice in my head started immediately ...