<p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">"Kirin Alolkoy's&nbsp;<em>Gender Unburdening</em>&nbsp;is a book for anyone who's ever felt the constraints of gender socialization. In other words, it's for all of us."</strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;-Kimberly Daniels, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Have you ever objected to the gender norms you're "supposed" to conform to? This isn't about whether you're cisgender, transgender, or nonbinary-it's about the rules ALL of us are expected to follow depending on the type of body we inhabit.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">We've all been swimming in the soup of a highly gendered culture our entire lives, and we've acquired beliefs about how to behave as well as, most likely, a heaping dose of distress. The good news is that we're not stuck with either the beliefs or the distress. This book offers you a front-row seat to a lab for healing from gender socialization.</span></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Review terms and concepts that enhance gender literacy.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Read about Internal Family Systems (IFS), a powerfully effective approach to personal growth and healing.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Learn about cross-cultural gender diversity and the origins of gender rules.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Explore the connections between gender, race, and sexual identity as social hierarchies used to marginalize.</span></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Follow along as the author, an IFS life coach and former therapist, sheds gender burdens and reclaims a sense of empowerment.</span></li></ol><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Each person's journey to wholeness is unique-there's no formula to follow or cookie-cutter result to aim for. Free of constraints, this exploration holds tremendous promise for expanding our lives by healing parts of us that carry personal and cultural burdens about gender.&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Gender Unburdening</em><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;is for anyone seeking freedom from distress connected to gender socialization as well as therapists, coaches, and other professionals who support them in their quest.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">"In this fascinating, timely, and well-written book, Kirin Alolkoy not only discusses the topic of IFS and gender but also takes us along on a powerful journey of using IFS to heal the wounds produced by family and culture around gender."</strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;-Richard Schwartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">"Kirin Alolkoy has written a superb account of using IFS to understand the wounds of societal and familial expectations about gender and one's body. Whether you are new to or familiar with IFS and the multidimensional aspects of gender, Kirin offers an inspirational model for exploring and overcoming long-standing inner pain."</strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;-Larry Rosenberg, psychologist</span></p>