The Unique Spiritual Path Of Being LGBTQIA+ - by Deana Coble

COURSE

The Unique Spiritual Path Of Being LGBTQIA+

With Deana Coble

This series takes a deep dive into how our awareness of our lived experience, sexuality and its expression can lead us deeper into an honest and trusting relationship with Spirit/Source/God. Identifying as LGBT or LGBTQIA+, being the parent of someone in the community or if you desire to be a stronger ally - this series will grow your connection to yourself, your God, your child and your friends. It is all about expanding and opening to the truth of who you are which directly impacts your ability to relate to others and culminates in the recognition of your loving relationship with Source or God. Session 1: I love you always and authentically. Self-acceptance and self-love are key to the realization of authentic love. We will take a journey into that living, active, and loving space that is a natural part of our being. Session 2: Being Gay, Being God, Being. Being gay (LGBTQIA+) is a path to Being God. You broke through societal beliefs to recognize who you are. That lived experience – that knowing – the recognition of our Being Gay – that’s what built the framework for the recognition that we are also Being God. Session 3: The non-binary God: Self-expression is a connection to God/Spirit/Source Within Self-expression and its many forms is God expressing the vastness of life and its many potentials. Honoring our own way of being allows our Spirit to flow more easily in our lives. Whether a person expresses as he, she or they – each nuance, each revelation evolves the personal self. The awareness of who and what God is - evolves through self-expression.

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Meet your Teacher

Deana Coble
Greensboro, NC, USA

Deana launched on a journey to learn - What is Love? This journey introduced her to energy healers who embodied the source energy they were and deepened the awareness and connection that Deana had to that energy present within their own self. Deana has facilitated workshops and support groups for churches, business and social organizations, and families in relationship to acceptance and appreciation of the LGBT or LGBTQIA+ community. Deana is an out member of the LGBTQ or LGBTQIA+ community, a local community board member for PFLAG, and personally navigated through fundamentalism to the conscious awareness of we are God embodied - just the way we are!

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3 Days

208 students

5.0 stars

38 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

I Love You Authentically And Always

So many times we are told – “I love you anyway.” This leaves us with an aftertaste of something being wrong with us. There is nothing wrong with us. So where do we go to feel that authentic and enduring love? We cannot wait for everyone outside of us to become aware of our value. People are overwhelmed with concern and fear about life in general, most people lean into their insecurities and are unavailable to themselves, much less others. And here we are clinging to the hope of external validation; we are looking for someone to love us authentically. Self-acceptance and self-love are key to the realization of authentic love. In this session, we will take a journey into that living, active and loving space that is a natural part of our being. Authentic love is natural to our way of being. It is available within us and all around us. It is saying to us – there is nothing to fix about you – there is nothing wrong with you. I love you always. In this recording, you will be asked to internally reflect on a few questions as we take this journey together. Those reflective questions have 5 seconds of silence following - you can choose to pause playback if you need more time.

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Lesson 2

Being Gay, Being God, BEING

As I looked for a church to go to and not have to hide I was gay, I sometimes felt disappointed. It wasn’t the same as being accepted by my old church. Why was this such a big deal? If my old church accepted me, it would make everything right! But that old church never did. Logically, we know that religious institutions can be based on fear and control. When you are exposed to its belief structure as a child, it becomes lodged in our ways of thinking about ourselves and the world. Even though I knew God or Spirit loved me – I had to ignore the old beliefs that would pop in my thoughts. Beliefs have a unique quality – even though they are not based on truth – they FEEL true. So how do you deal with that? EXPERIENCE! When you experience a truth or have a lived experience of how life really is – you don’t need to believe. The experience is so real that it validates itself. Experience is lived knowledge – and once expressed is not called into question. It is… it just is. There is no greater peace than that which comes from lived experience. In this session, we will experience our being beyond belief. Being gay is a path to Being God. You broke through societal beliefs to recognize who you are. That lived experience – that knowing – the recognition of our Being Gay (or knowing someone who is LGBTQIA+) built the framework for the recognition that we are also Being God. Together let’s have the lived experience of Being LGBTQIA+, Being God, .... Being. During the recording, reflective questions have 5 seconds of silence following for you to pause and answer.

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Lesson 3

The Non-Binary God: Self-Expression Is Connection To God Within

As a child I remember hearing the verse in Genesis where it says: “Male and female created he them.” I remember thinking – ah so we are both and God is both too. But somehow, in Western culture, God has been presented as a white male and an alpha heterosexual. Defining God in this manner limits the perspective of what God is and our relationship with God.

 Self-expression and its many forms is God expressing the vastness of life and its many potentials. Honoring our own way of being allows our Spirit to flow more easily in our lives. Expressing our innate masculine and feminine energies is a spiritual path! Whether a person expresses as he, she or they – or expresses as masculine, feminine or androgynously – each nuance, each revelation evolves the personal self. The awareness of who and what God is evolves through self-expression.

What sometimes secretly holds us back - fear! How do we create safety when we cannot control the outside? In this final session, we will use our innate awareness of our true selves and connect deeply to our being. Our timeless being that is beyond the boundaries of gender – that evolves through self-expression – that is not separate from God and is the presence of God on this planet. God is we, God is they, God is you.

During this recording, reflective questions will have 5 seconds of pause for you to answer.

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5.0 (7)

Recent Reviews

Lavon

January 9, 2024

A course that I needed. Very nice.

Nancy

November 30, 2023

Thank you, Deana. I started this course out of curiosity, but I ended this course with an heightened awareness of the subtleties of my own behaviors, & how they might be perceived by the LGBTQIA+ community. I really appreciate the gentle way that you point out how language can carry an underlying negative tone ... your example of "I love you anyway" vs "I love you always" was effective in getting me to take a deep dive into looking at ways that I can construct my language to be far more supportive and represent how I really feel. Nothing gives me greater joy than to imagine a world where all humankind can safely and freely identify their true nature. I feel that I can be a much more loving and sensitive ally as a result of this course. 🙏

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