Practicing Polyamory Podcast

E.111 - Mono-Normative Messaging and its Challenges in Polyamory with Alonna Donovan Makinson


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Alonna Donovan Makinson was inspired to serve the polyam community when, as a practicing therapist, she discovered an abundance of polyam clients and a nearly complete lack of polyam affirming therapists in her area.

We dive right into the constant bombardment of messaging from all sorts of media sources, and how the "one man, one woman" messaging and lack of representation in the media for the majority of our history impacts all of us as a society at large.

Isolation and lack of social support are just a few negative side effects, especially when our relationship choices might be considered a deviance.

I grill Alonna pretty hard on the idea of deviance, especially where non-monogamy falls in the DSM, and the changes that Alonna sees in expanding psychology education to include non-monogamous relationship structures.

Learn more about Alonna at www.life-tree-consulting.com !

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