Shelli Renee Joye - My Transition Journal: A Transgender Arc of...

2022, English, Interview, Shelli Renee Joye, USA,

Full title: "My Transition Journal: A Transgender Arc of Self-Discovery" by Shelli Renee Joye.

The book presents the transition story of Shelli Renee Joye, an American scientist and academic. The publication is "an intense journal covering two years of transitioning from male to female, including a year of "telehealth" counseling daily correspondence with a world-leading gender therapist."

According to New Dawn Magazine, Shelli Renee Joye is the author of 10 books exploring the practical links between the physics of consciousness and Perennial philosophy. Dr. Joye attended Rice University on a physics scholarship and after graduating with a BS in Electrical Engineering, she met John Lilly and joined him in his work to explore interspecies communication. While living in New York, Dr. Joye was a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and after moving to San Francisco to do graduate work for an M.A. in Asian philosophies where she studied Patanjali’s Sutras in the original Sanskrit with Dr. Ramamurti Mishra. She recently completed her doctorate at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the interdisciplinary Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program.

I interviewed Shelli in 2023 and asked her about the price of the fulfillment of her dream to be herself: "Definitely it was the impact on my family, my ex and my son and daughter, the pain and confusion my transition brought into their lives... even now it hurts, though my son and daughter have grown close since then. Probably the greatest pain was during the rift between my daughter and myself. She was 18 at the time. She wouldn’t speak to me and didn’t want to see me for almost a year. Previously, as her Dad, we had been so very close."

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