17 (More) Realistic Ways to Break Anyone Down
Like last time, as we proceed in the comments, remember the severity or levity of your hypotheticals might feed the power a person has over you. Tread carefully, and let’s have fun.
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Helping You Help Yourself #44
Tater tots! Determining your immigration status! Secret CIA tape for your mail! And more!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for February 2017
“Eclipses are times when our ordinary lives are interrupted, when we’re asked to reckon with hidden desires and motivations, secrets long buried, and unexpected breakthroughs and revelations.”
Feelings Rookie: Uphill Battles
When waking up every morning feels like starting another steep climb, how do we keep our wits about us long enough to reach the top and breathe?
Helping You Help Yourself #43
Online therapy, figuring out whether your plant is dead, tax prep, sending faxes and more!
Feelings Rookie: Accepting That Feelings Aren’t Failings
When the walls of my life seemed to be crumbling in on me from every angle, I knew someone would pay. That someone was usually me.
Helping You Help Yourself #42
The ideal way to stack nachos, proactive steps for a Trumpian world, getting compensation from airlines, some important ketchup info and more!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for January 2017
This month, we’re looking at your coming year in queer love: how you’ll be able to grow, where you’ll be able to heal, and where you can hold the faith and keep the dream alive. Here’s your roadmap to how to love yourself better this year, and show up for the ones you love — whether that’s your committed life partner or your an international network of queer communities.
Feelings Rookie: New Year, New You?
I refuse to make a New Year’s resolution. I can’t buy into that idea anymore, because I know it only sets me up for failure.
Helping You Help Yourself #41
Make a ton of quesadillas, drink mulled wine, write in a guided journal by the light of a Himalayan salt lamp and more!
Feelings Rookie: The Spiral
How can one negative feeling send a whole day into disarray? Why do feelings like worthlessness seem to snowball? How do I stop this?
Helping You Help Yourself 40
Winterizing your car, standing up to bigotry, craft beer pairings, IKEA furniture and more!
Feelings Rookie: When It All Adds Up
Feelings about feelings: How do they work and why are they so awful?
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for December 2016
“What a strange way to end the year. How strange to talk of personal love, right now, as though we can separate it out from love for everyone who is suffering and endangered. But queer love can and must encompass that—what are we here for if not to create new ways of loving, new communities of care, and a world with less repression and hatred?”
Helping You Help Yourself #39
Calling your reps, figuring out what kind of shirt you’re wearing, making babies laugh, saving money, a Wonder Woman tiara, and more!
Feelings Rookie: The Terror of Hope
Hope is light, hope is all that is good, hope is what keeps humans alive when all other circumstances say they should be dead. So why was I so afraid of this life-giving feeling?
How To Be Alone on Thanksgiving
So, you’re spending Thanksgiving 2016 alone. I’m here to let you know that spending Thanksgiving alone is not only just fine, it’s also damn fun.
A+ Inbox LIVE! Podcast #16: We Had Each Other
A post-election processing and planning podcast! You sent your questions and we’ve got some answers, and feelings.
Helping You Help Yourself #38
Let’s all help each other and ourselves this week.
Feelings Rookie: Coping Skills
Coping is a huge part of our lives and we all have our schemes, whether they’re conscious or not. In this particularly troubling time, it’s more important than ever.