Ready for some laughter, tears, and lots of wise, loving advice? Our final Share the Love February episode of the Coming Out & Beyond podcast has dropped, and it's a good 'un!

Every Friday in the month of February in 2023, host Anne-Marie Zanzal and podcast producer Barb Rowlandson have been sharing lots of loving advice and encouragement with the late-in-life community. In this episode, Anne-Marie and Barb cover alllll the feelings and share their best advice when it comes to catalyst relationships, including:

-defining 'what is a catalyst?' in the context of the coming out later in life experience,

-why catalyst relationships are often profoundly joyful in the beginning, and earth-shatteringly painful when they end,

-how catalyst relationships can often become all consuming,

-separating your new Queer identity from your catalyst,

-picking up the pieces and healing after a catalyst relationship ends,

and more!

In this episode, Barb shares her catalyst experience with listeners and offers reflections on the good, the bad, and the ugly about catalyst relationships. Anne-Marie offers tons of wise, loving advice on how to navigate these relationships, and what to do if your catalyst relationship ends.

You can catch episodes of the Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and at www.annemariezanzal.com

Want to book a Discovery Call with Anne-Marie? You can select a time for a call here: https://calendly.com/annemariezanzalcoachingllc/discovery-call?month=2023-01

Learn more about Lotus Group Coaching here: https://annemariezanzal.com/lotus-group-coaching/

For context, here's a link to that 1993 photo of kd lang and Cindy Crawford. Photo by Herb Ritts for Vanity Fair magazine: https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/qynov7/a_little_throwback_kd_lang_and_cindy_crawford...

In the podcast, we refer to Tonda McKay's articles on the origins of the 'convert a straight woman, win a toaster oven' joke and relationships between long-out and newly-out lesbians. You can find these articles here:

https://annemariezanzal.com/whats-up-with-the-toaster-oven-by-tonda-mckay/

https://annemariezanzal.com/when-this-long-time-out-lesbian-dated-a-newbie/