The Companions Collective

The Art of Finding the Love We Deserve


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Welcome to One Last Network and The Art of Finding the Love We Deserve.

Julie Schurr has been a member of the LGBTQ2S+ community for more than 25 years. She has served the queer community in a number of ways, including educator, entertainer and advocate.

An expat American living in Spain, Julie seeks to continue uplifting her chosen family through mindset and growth coaching, with a focus on grief. Along with her certification in coaching, she is accredited in cognitive behavioral therapy and rational emotive behavioral therapy. She also holds a master's in linguistics.

The queer community is drastically underserved in so many ways. Its members face experiences that those who identify as nonqueer will never understand. Those experiences -- often coupled with profound loss -- can bring stress, grief and lack of focus.

Julie wants to help her community overcome those feelings and remind her family members that they have the strength to do so.

I reached out to Julie because I have so many friends in the queer community, friends who have endured loss … friends who have endured the loss of pets.

And I know from my own perspective how isolating grief and loss can be but I wanted us to better understand the loneliness and isolation that our queer brothers and sisters experience when they say goodbye to their best fur friend.

Have a listen.

What to listen for

6:36 How Julie fought for LGBTQ2S+ students as a teacher

11:48 The microaggressions and discrimination Julie faces daily

24:03 When Julie met Avery, the love she deserves

34:07 How the love of pets can fill the void of loss

47:10 How health care practitioners and allies can do better

Where to find Julie

Coach Julie Schurr

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