Kathy Labriola is an author, nurse, counsellor, and hypnotherapist. Kathy is author of four books on consensual nonmonogamy: The Jealousy Workbook, Love in Abundance: A Counselor's Advice on Open Relationships, The Polyamory Break-up Book, and Polyamorous Elders: Aging in Open Relationships.
She has also provided affordable mental health services to alternative communities for the past 30 years. Kathy has been polyamorous for over 50 years and lives with her two husbands in Berkeley, California.
You can find her work and services at kathylabriola.com
As you will hear from this conversation, she is a remarkable woman with so many powerful insights to share. During the opening stages of our conversation, Kathy talks about the power of representation and the way that non-monogamy has been portrayed in the media.
Often, voices from older generations are by-passed for younger and more commercial representatives. The irony is not lost on us here, but this conversation is a reminder to us all, on the importance and power of intergenerational conversations.
In today’s episode we discuss the importance of intergenerational conversation, whether she still struggles with particular emotions after 5 decades of polyamory, stigma against polyamorous grandparents, sex as an aging person, developing your own code of ethics, non-monogamy as an orientation, class and non-monogamy, advice for younger non-monogamous people, polyamorous elders and so much more.
Polyamorous for 50 Years: Kathy Labriola