Results for: you need help
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You Need Help: On Dating During a Health Scare
I am sending you and your person all my love and wishes for competent and compassionate medical care, swift healing, and fruitful conversations in the future about your growing relationship.
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You Need Help: Can My Spouse and I Boil Our Menstrual Cups Together?
“Is there any sanitary reason NOT to?”
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You Need Help: How to Feel Good About Getting Older
You already escaped the lies of the patriarchy. Now — now! — you get to live.
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You Need Help: I Keep Getting Yeast Infections When I Receive Oral Sex
I’m obsessive about the way I treat my vagina. Is this kind of annoying? Honestly, yes. Is it more annoying to get a yeast infection? Also yes.
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You Need Help: How Do I Become the Protagonist of My Own Life?
Who were your fictional heroes? What were the stories that were told to you in the songs that you played on loop? Who were the artists who sang them, and how did their lives – so close to fiction anyway, by virtue of Hollywood tabloid culture – create stories for you? What did you imagine for yourself, as a teen?
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You Need Help: How Do I Get My Best Friend to Go to Therapy?
“Here is the good news—your best friend does have a therapist! Here is the bad news—that therapist is you!”
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You Need Help: Stop Gaslighting Yourself
What would it feel like to move forward with curiosity, rather than relying on the comforting familiarity of self-doubt?
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You Need Help: Is It Time To Break Up With My Therapist?
What kinda of things are okay to expect from therapy? Should I switch therapists?
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NY Needs More Midwives: Here’s How You Can Help
The violence against Black and Indigenous birthing people is intergenerational violence and trauma happening in real time, in each birth. Healing it – by making midwifery more accessible for more people, in the contexts and environments that are centered on the comfort, care, respect, and empowerment of birthing people – is one deeply important step forward in creating that world.
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You Need Help: Finding a Therapist for the First Time
Therapy is your place to be all about YOU. It’s your place to be safe, vulnerable, and authentic, in order for your to learn about yourself. It’s never too early to start practicing how to prioritize yourself and your needs.
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You Have a Crush on Your Therapist: An Exposé About Transference
Having an hour a week devoted to being listened to can lend itself to a misdirection of feelings. It’s easy to dismiss this as a harmless crush, but it can easily spiral out into an obsession that takes away from the real work that needs to be done.
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Here’s a Step-By-Step Guide on How to Find a Therapist
We’ve all been in a place where we know we should see a therapist, but the idea of even taking the steps from “yeah I should probably see someone someday” to “I called them yesterday and set up my first appointment” is daunting. I’m going to guide us through it.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a BRCA Test
My only reference for genetic cancer testing was when Angelina Jolie was highly criticized publicly for the decision to do a double mastectomy to protect herself from her own genetic cancer risk. It’s absurd to recall this now.
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Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality
What’s it like to walk down the stairs with nothing bouncing? What’s it like to feel a seatbelt flat against me? What’s it like when my girlfriend lays her head on my chest, REALLY on my chest, closer to my heart than ever?
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Alyson Stoner on the Power of Movement and Queer Joy
“One of the most beautiful things, especially in the queer experience, is joy.”
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Simple Anxiety Hacks for Dealing With Crowds
Whether you’re at a party, a protest, or another crowded event, try these mindfulness and grounding exercises to mitigate stress and anxiety.
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How To Engage With New Year’s Resolutions More Thoughtfully
I have to take a page from my time recovering from an eating disorder. The habits and encouragement found in supportive eating disorder recovery look a lot like the things we want to emulate in daily life.
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You Need Help: Is It Normal to Feel Sexy When You Gain Weight? (Yes)
“There’s nothing better than finding out the way you love your body the most, and you’ve done that. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad or weird for that.”
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Endometriosis No Longer Keeps Me From My Best Queer Sex
For the first time I was able to experience, without pain, the feeling of having my partner’s fingers inside of me and we found a new level of intimacy and excitement… How did I spend an entire decade of my life letting the medical system tell me that constant pelvic pain was acceptable?
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8 Coping Hacks For the Neurodiverse Baddies
Needless to say, I own a few slimes.