Sander T Jones, LCSW

08/18/2025

There Is No Such Thing as Lazy --- Only Human

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-lazy-only?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true **mcommunity

08/15/2025

Have you ever felt the heartbreak of loving someone, caring about someone, but somehow that wasn't enough to get past the inability to communicate and understand each other?

Join me as I teach, "Collaborative Communication: Theory and Skills for Building Amazing Connections," August 16th 12-2pm Eastern time. It's a virtual class for Pragmatic Kink.

Come learn about the barriers that get in the way of communication, and how to respond in a way that brings understanding, compassion, and repairs the rifts that can form in our important relationships.

If you're on Fetlife, you can sign up here: https://fetlife.com/events/1825551
If you're not on Fetlife, you can buy tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/pk-presents-collaborative-communication-theory-and-skills-for-building-amazing-connections
The ticket price is on a sliding scale from $5-20.

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08/14/2025

This MUST ATTEND conference is coming Nov 7th. Early bird pricing ends Aug 31, so hurry and sign up now!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unapologetic-wellness-black-women-embracing-resistance-resilience-tickets-1244090430969

08/13/2025

Have you ever felt the heartbreak of loving someone, caring about someone, but somehow that wasn't enough to get past the inability to communicate and understand each other?

Join me as I teach, "Collaborative Communication: Theory and Skills for Building Amazing Connections," August 16th 12-2pm Eastern time. It's a virtual class for Pragmatic Kink.

Come learn about the barriers that get in the way of communication, and how to respond in a way that brings understanding, compassion, and repairs the rifts that can form in our important relationships.

If you're on Fetlife, you can sign up here: https://fetlife.com/events/1825551
If you're not on Fetlife, you can buy tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/pk-presents-collaborative-communication-theory-and-skills-for-building-amazing-connections
The ticket price is on a sliding scale from $5-20.

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08/10/2025

LIVE Event! Monday at noon

What Does Personal Growth Look Like as a Daily Practice?

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/live-event-monday-at-noon?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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08/05/2025

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08/01/2025

07/21/2025

Bigotry as Control: What the Military Taught me About Power and Prejudice

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/bigotry-as-control?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/16/2025

What If Connection Is Scarier Than Power?

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/what-if-connection-is-scarier-than?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/15/2025

She’s Lonely Too — The Hidden Cost of Carrying a Man’s Wounds

Women (and other partners of men) Are Lonely — And Done Performing
This epidemic of loneliness isn’t just hitting men. It’s hitting women, and other partners of men, too — most numerically, straight women partnered with emotionally unavailable straight men.
Many are choosing not to marry. Many are choosing to live alone. Many are leaving long-term relationships with men and finding more peace in solitude than they ever found in romantic partnership.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/shes-lonely-too?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/14/2025

She’s Lonely Too — The Hidden Cost of Carrying a Man’s Wounds

This epidemic of loneliness isn’t just hitting men. It’s hitting women, and other partners of men, too — most numerically, straight women partnered with emotionally unavailable straight men.
Many are choosing not to marry. Many are choosing to live alone. Many are leaving long-term relationships with men and finding more peace in solitude than they ever found in romantic partnership.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/shes-lonely-too?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/11/2025

The Silence Between Us: On Men, Trauma, and the Loss of Connection

We’ve been told for generations that men are just “less emotional,” “less communicative,” or “less relational” than women.
But what if that’s not true at all?
What if what we call “masculinity” is not nature — but a wound?

Read the full article on my Substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/cultivatingconnection/p/the-silence-between-us?r=54x767&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true