Caitriona Reed
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She is a 'woman of transsexual experience' who transitioned in 1996. She stated about her transitioning, "As a teacher encouraging others to live more honest and authentic lives, it was increasingly difficult for me to deny a basic fact—that I was a woman."[2]
Currently, informed by her work as a Buddhist teacher, Reed focuses on public speaking; mentoring individual clients; and together with her partner Michele Benzamin-Miki conducting professional certification training in neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotherapy with an emphasis holistic approaches to life-coaching and personal and professional mentorship.[3][4][5]
Personal life
Reed is a trans woman, publicly identifying as transgender in April 1998. Although this was the first time she publicly came out, Reed stated close friends had known for around twenty years.[6]
Prior to her transition Reed married her long-time partner (since 1981) artist, Aikido and Iaido Sensei Michele Benzamin-Miki.[6] They continue living and working together.
Published Essays
- Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology (Alan Hunt Badiner, Editor)
- What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future (2004) (Rebecca Walker, Editor)
- The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (2012) (Florence Caplow and Susan Moon, Editors)
See also
- Buddhism in the United States
- Buddhism and sexual orientation
- Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
- Neuro-linguistic programming
References
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External links
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- American motivational speakers
- American women motivational speakers
- American hypnotists
- Life coaches
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- American Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers
- American transgender women
- Female Buddhist spiritual teachers
- Transgender Buddhists
- LGBTQ people from California
- Thiền Buddhists
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- American Buddhists