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Deeper Explorations of Mental Health and Power Exchange


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Class Description

A deeper exploration into mental health and its impacts on our kink and Power Exchange lives. In our dynamic, with mental illness affecting both of us, we've spent years creating protocols, rituals and strategies that enhance how the two work together while working to minimize negative impacts. This class allows us to spend greater time breaking down some of the ways mental health and Power Exchange can positively impact each other, as well as giving further insights on communication, protocols and maintaining/ leveraging our dynamic in some of the tough times. Disclaimer: This workshop is presented from a layman's perspective; we are not mental health professionals.


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Thank you for your interest and your support of THRIVE! Because THRIVE is 100% free and not accepting donations, we ask that you pay it forward by donating to our speakers.

Keeper and kitten accepts donations and support via Paypal 
(keeperandkittenca@gmail.com), with 50% of all proceeds going to OutSaskatoon (https://www.outsaskatoon.ca), a local organization that provides mental health and other services to the 2SLGBTQ+ communities with specialized services focused on reconciliation and healing within QTBIPOC peoples and communities. 
If you enjoyed Keeper and kitten, you can follow them on Fetlife at Keeper-n-kitten and contact them at keeperandkittenca@gmail.com 

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Presenter

Keeper's kitten

(they/them)

Presenter Bio

Adorable by nature and kind by choice, kitten is a queer, non-binary trans spoonie living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. They navigate life through their own autistic lens, and are passionate about making the world a better place through compassion and living their life openly even when that feels like a revolution. They live daily with bipolar disorder, including psychosis, as well as severe generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) that has manifested over their life in various ways including disordered eating, IBD, body dysmorphia and impulse-control disorder (ICD). As far as physical health, they were also diagnosed in 2014 with a rare idiopathic inflammatory disorder, Adult Onset Still's Disease that keeps them on immunosuppresants, and later with fibromyalgia.

Within kink, kitten is a leather little, a bootblack and a masochist, identifying strongly with being property and giving service--- before Covid they could often be found taking pain, in some sort of predicament being shaved, involved in a group scene or lovingly swallowing ash in a cigar lounge. They moderate for a Saskatchewan based polyamory group, PolyamSask, have facilitated many times for AWAKENS (a Saskatoon based women and non-binary discussion group) and are the co-organizer of a Saskatoon based non-binary/ gender fluid kinky coffee group. They can often be found advocating for trans and two-spirit rights, speaking openly about mental health, playing the Sims 4, loving their puppy and two cats, watching Pixar movies and surrounded by stationary, stuffies and coffee. kitten was formally, publicly collared by their Keeper in March 2019 and they have been building their 24/7, queer, polyamourous, long distance dynamic together since 2016. Together they are your Western Canada Power Exchange 2020/2021 titleholders and educate internationally on mental health, polyamoury, gender variance and many other topics from their perspective as a Power Exchange couple.

 


Story_Keeper

(They/them or he/him)

Presenter Bio

Living in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Keeper balances being a passionate partner, a loving father, a huge nerd and an active member of his communities. In navigating both intergenerational and personal trauma of being the grandchild of Jewish Holocaust Surviors, the son of a solo mother, adopted, an abuse survivor, and growing up a bisexual man, amongst other things, he's spent his life developing coping mechanisms and lives daily with the effects of CPTSD, BPD, and ADHD. A self professed "Social Justice Bard", they are passionate about education, calling in and leaving the world a better place than he found it. Keeper is on the board for Queen City Pride as well as the founder of Sask Polyam Consensual After Dark.

Within kink, Keeper is a Sadist with a smile, a Dominant Daddy and a general kinky fucker. He loves mess, shaving, hitting people with sticks and fucking them until they cry. He's also passionate about negotiation and is always looks for ways to make his partners have a great time. Keeper is in a 24/7, queer, polyamourous, long distance dynamic with his kitten that is best described as "Keeper and kitten". They've been together since 2016 and he formally, publically collared them in March 2019; together they are your Western Canada Power Exchange 2020/2021 titleholders and educate internationally on a wide range of topics.


Moderated by

Spinfrog

(she/they)


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