In brief: For many LGBTQI+ people, anxiety isn’t a random flaw — it’s an intelligent adaptation to years of navigating visibility, stigma and conditional belonging, a pattern documented as minority stress (Meyer, 2003). Beyond Survival by Germain Gulevic combines minority stress theory, affirmative CBT and clinical hypnotherapy (HypnoCBT) into a practical framework for updating thoseContinue reading “LGBTQI+ Anxiety: Why It Makes Sense and How to Move Beyond Survival”