ABSTRACT
Mindfulness-based stress reduction is a research-based approach to teaching people to stay present developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn that has been found to be effective treating anxiety. As a high school athlete when their gender presentation was “distinctly femme” their blackness engendered a sense in young white track and field competitors a somatically visible anxiety about athletic domination. A dialogic perspective to tolerating uncertainty is focused on shifting the goal of therapy away from diagnosing a pathology and creating an intervention as the expert, to creating space for all voices to be heard and valued equally. Buddhist thinkers and writers have long worked with the idea of uncertainty, or not-knowing, sometimes referred to as “beginner’s mind.” As sex therapists have found their own ability to tolerate uncertainty to be helpful in their work with erotically marginalized clients because it models and therefore opens up space for clients themselves to tolerate uncertainty.
