by Jose Aries Tan | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Let’s start with a question. Where are you on your journey to authenticity? For me, fourteen years ago, I thought I was on the right track. I am not afraid to admit I was very generously unaware of who I was. One could say I took the scenic route to this elusive...
by Jose Aries Tan | Jun 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Community was my beacon of hope while navigating the uncertainty and complexity of sexual identity, dealing with repressed anger and trauma, overcoming the stigma of divorce, and distancing myself from suffocating perfectionism. The duo of guilt and shame were...
by Jose Aries Tan | Mar 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Bride, wife, divorcee – each phase of my life required courage. I wrote a book called Modern Day Courage to light a path for others. Confronting assumptions about my sexual identity, combatting mental health challenges, overcoming the stigma of divorce, fighting...
by Jose Aries Tan | Nov 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
No matter how you slice it – it felt like an eternity. My 4th anniversary will be etched in my memory in a rather peculiar way. Not because it was the first anniversary where I got to be in the company of the one I love (as we reside in different countries and...
by Jose Aries Tan | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear Brandon School Board of Trustees, I am responding to Ms. Lorraine Hackenschmidt’s comments from May 8th, 2023 at the Brandon School Division Meeting. I agree with Ms. Hackenschmidt’s comments that children need protection against pedophilia (online or not), child...