{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fbfdf5182-e2cf-4c9c-8ffc-9cc42721d5f7","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 108: Religion, Coming Out, and Therapy \u2013 Tyler Rich","description":"Imagine having the support to draw boundaries. The kind of boundaries that say, \u201cI love you, respect you, but you don\u2019t get to abuse me in this manner any longer!\u201d Powerful, right?\r\nNow imagine, really understanding why some people exercise their religious freedom to box you in. Everything from uneducated homophobia shame, to \u201cMy God I\u2019m going to hell if I don\u2019t try to save your homophobic sinning ass,\u201d are the reasons some hide behind their faith to try to get the LGBT community to change who we are\u2026even though we can\u2019t change, who we are!\r\nTo help dissect this roller coaster of emotions, we\u2019re going head-to-head\u2026actually collaborating today\u2026with Tyler Rich, marriage and family therapist specializing LGBT issues regarding religious acceptance. You get the therapist and life coach perspectives on religion and coming out\u2026it\u2019s the perfect toolkit for you when it\u2019s your time to step into the spotlight of coming out. All you need is a little faith and two smart guys to get you through it.\r\nShow Highlights\r\n\r\n* Homelessness is driven from the lack of acceptance\r\n* Why do parents really struggle with a child coming out? Find out\u2026\r\n* Hear why it\u2019s OK to believe you can still be a Christian as well as\u00a0being gay\r\n* Coming out is a rollercoaster of emotions & there are ways we cope\r\n* When you sacrifice your rights, you give others permission to mistreat you!\r\n\r\nConnect with Tyler Rich\r\nTyler Rich is a Marriage and Family Therapist Student-Intern. He is passionate about helping clients find a richer life experience through personal growth. He focuses on building mental serenity, through helping clients develop new patterns of behavior while changing negative patterns of functioning.\r\nTyler has a passion to help change the world by helping strengthen families, and people work to find mental serenity. From the time he was in elementary school, he remembers being the person that his friends would come to with their problems. Entering college at UNLV he felt called to the ministry, but after taking counseling course work he discovered his passion for helping people through therapy, earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in Human Service Counseling.\r\nHe is currently working towards his Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Phoenix, while simultaneously fulfilling his internship requirements where he see clients under the direct supervision from a licensed marriage and family therapist.\r\nWebsite\r\nFacebook\r\nTwitter\r\n\u00a0\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4b9b6c41-474a-4fd0-a374-cbb2a7aa23a4/1400x1400_uncloseted_artwork-01-573.jpg"}