Mending with Gold is a podcast hosted by the co-directors of the ⁠Kintsugi Therapist Collective (KTC)⁠, a virtual community for therapists and aligned care workers dedicated to building embodied and liberatory practices of care.

If you’d like to get involved with KTC, consider applying to our Spring Embodied Private Practice Cohort. Learn more ⁠here⁠. We also host a number of supportive groups for care workers such as:

Barriers to Nourishment: ⁠Register here⁠

Mixed Identity Clinical Alliance: ⁠Register here⁠

Our guest today is Syd Yang.

Rev. Syd Yang, MDiv (they/them) is a mixed race/Taiwanese American queer trans/non-binary lay Buddhist Minister and spiritual counselor who engages decolonial possibilities for shared liberation through their practice, Blue Jaguar Healing Arts. Syd is also a certified Movement Chaplain through Faith Matters Network. Syd’s work finds its resonance in the stories we each hold at the intersection of memory, body, sexuality and mental health. Syd works primarily with queer and trans BIPOC individuals as well as regularly leads workshops and facilitates community based practice spaces for wellbeing + healing justice, with a specific focus on grief, healing ancestral trauma, sexuality + spirituality, body liberation and recovery. Syd recently co-founded the Throughline Collective, a spiritually expansive and anti-carceral trauma care practice rooted in Buddhist teaching.