Stigma Support Programs

Donate to Something Positive for Positive People

At SPFPP, positive doesn’t just mean a diagnosis. It means presence—like it did before language distilled it to this binary spectrum of good and bad. At SPFPP, positive is the presence that holds space, without fixing, without judgment, and without rushing toward a solution. Presence is what allows people to feel seen. And when someone feels seen, they remember who they are beyond the stigma.

Since 2017, Something Positive for Positive People has been a space where people navigating herpes—and other identity-based stigmas—can be witnessed with dignity. What began as a suicide prevention resource for people newly diagnosed with herpes has grown into a practice of presence witnessing their other identities stigma has disconnected them from. Whether received through a podcast episode, a yoga therapy session, or a 1-on-1 support call, the most consistent feedback we receive is some variation of how this has been the most helpful thing for someone struggling with stigma. We don’t diagnose or offer medications, we simply prescribe presence.

Your donation makes that possible. It helps us more deeply root to sustain and expand support for people facing stigma—around sexuality, mental health, relationship style, race, gender, or any part of their identity the world has tried to make them hide. This space gives volume to the voice of the stigmatized to bring forth the healing of the taboo of existence outside the mainstream societal expectations upholding systems that make it unsafe for many stigmatized people to even exist.

This work only continues because of your presence—and your support.

Where Your Donation Goes

Peer Support Calls
Your donation funds 1-on-1 calls for people to unpack their diagnosis, process shame, and practice showing up fully in who they are, which influences their environment, therefore inspire a little more authenticity in the world, which is what we really need right now.

Yoga Therapy + Yoga Sessions
These sessions guide people through movement, stillness, breath, and reflection to reconnect with themselves across all layers—body, energy, emotion, wisdom, and identity. We use the structure of the self, like an atom, to support balance: grounding through the physical, regulating through the breath, releasing mental and emotional noise, and stabilizing your center. This is a presence practice for being, fueling all that you do.

Podcast: Something Positive for Positive People
400+ episodes of real, unfiltered stories from people navigating stigma. Your donation helps keep these conversations accessible and expanding.

Support Groups & Webinars
These spaces allow people to connect and recharge in community. Our webinars are useful in honoring presence to nurture our nature. As stigmatized people, we may not always know what we need immediately when searching, and this is a space to show up and just see if this is it. It may not be, but it’s a step closer to receiving the identity validation stolen from us by stigma.

Stigma Education & Training for Professional Development
We teach others—healthcare providers, educators, allies—how to validate identity through stigma-minimizing language. We can’t teach presence but we do offer the space to practice it and receive feedback while learning stigma-free language that reduces invisible harm in their organizations, roles, alliyship, education, advocacy, and relationships.

Content for Allies
Guides, videos, and reflections that help loved ones learn how to show up in a way that supports—not centers—themselves.

Why This Matters

The word positive in our name was never just about test results. It’s always meant presence—and the power it has to change a person’s relationship to themselves, shifting how they show up in their environments.

SPFPP isn’t just a charity. It’s a community. A practice. A reminder that there is nothing wrong with you, and you deserve to exist fully as yourself and have that identity affirmed and validated regardless of the stigma you’re facing.

Right now, every piece of this work flows through me—Courtney—and your donation sustains my ability to keep showing up, holding this container, and expanding the reach of this healing.

If you’ve ever felt seen through SPFPP, you know the power of presence and this space.
Help us extend that presence to someone else.

Make a Donation Below!