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Check out our new series, Surviving 2025, for blog posts specifically selected to help you better cope with the challenging twists and turns that this year has in store.
On Why The Latinx Community Needs Therapy Too!
According to the ADAA, only 1 in 5 Latinx people struggling with mental health approach a doctor AND only 1 in 10 Latinx people approach a mental health professional. We can’t deny that there are significant barriers to treatment for Latinx people. Read more about common barriers to Latinx mental health care and how to increase accessibility.
On The Bachelorette and Sex Positivity: What Could Go Wrong?
This season, Bachelorette took sex positive as a theme and used it to shape many of the group dates, one-on-one dates, and leading questions for the contestants so that they would talk ad nauseam about sex positivity. This post will highlight where the Bachelor went wrong, what sex positivity actually is, support for this attempt at a sex positive approach, and provide you resources for true sex positivity.
On Why Transitions are So Hard & How to Find Peace Within Them
All of our transitional experiences have two things in common: our lives were never the same, and we evolved. No matter how seemingly positive the transition was, I bet challenges and uncomfortable feelings accompanied it. Read on for tips to help you navigate change with ease.
On Self-Care for a Weird Post-Vaccinated Summer
This past year has held a rollercoaster of emotions and required humankind to focus on survival. Now, many of us are vaccinated and curious about what life and relationships look like in this post-vaccinated world. Explore practices to maintain, prompts to reflect on, and ways to attempt to care for the self this summer.
On the Importance of Validating Others’ Emotions & How to Start
When we practice validation, we’re letting someone know that their internal experience and feelings are understandable and we’re communicating that they are okay to feel. By validating someone else’s experience you’re not invalidating your own--two people can be having different experiences and they’re both completely valid. Here’s 3 steps on how to validate others’ feelings.
On Why Self-Care Needs to Include Rest
Rest and rejuvenation are critical to supporting us as humans. Our society prioritizes doing over being and thus self-care has come to mean engaging in a lot of activity. Read on to learn more about why doing nothing is essential for true self-care.
On Bisexual Erasure and Why It Matters...
There are a whole lot of misconceptions about bisexual folx, and these result in decreased acceptance and erasure from within heteronormative society and from within LGBTQ+ communities.
On Why Starting Sex Therapy with Your Partner Can Be Life-Changing
Sex is a big part of life! So, when partners are having difficulties around sex, it takes up a lot of space in the relationship. Read on to learn about all of the ways that starting sex therapy can benefit your relationship and get some of your most burning questions answered!
On the Importance of Reconnecting with Our Nervous System
Tracking our embodiment is important because it helps us integrate and make meaning of our emotional experience. Emotions live in our body—without paying attention to what sensations arise in our bodies we are mostly thoughts, content, and analysis with no grounding in our authentic feelings.