Putting myself in good places around good people who want to see me happy…
I know that sounds really cliched, but its true. If I stayed around people who didn’t respect my trans-identity or kept coming at me with the who, what, when, where, why, and how, about my my life, it would have overwhelmed me some. Nah, scratch that, because I still go through that stuff on the daily, its just keep my mind in a positive light.
Transitioning has been, by far, the best decision I have made for my life. The amount of sacrifice and distance was tough, but I concluded that the only person that has to deal with me on the daily is myself, and it was no longer something I had to keep hiding inside of me.
Embracing my trans-identity was me finally embracing myself, something that I was always afraid to do.