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What is Complex PTSD and Do You Have It?
C-PTSD is a psychological disorder that results from a series of repetitive, traumatic events from which the individual sees little chance for escape.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Texting in a New Relationship
Interpreting texts through the lens of your own emotions and experience can sabotage a developing connection
Measuring Male-to-Female Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
A rough overview of five categories of sexual harassment in the workplace, from worst-case scenarios to the most innocuous.
What Stopped Us? Why Didn’t We Report?
What we all can do to make things better now, is tell as many girls and women out there who have no advocate or are too intimidated or ashamed to ask for one that they have advocates now.
How Hope Can Sabotage a Relationship
By being aware of the ways your hopeful feelings are experienced, you are less likely to sabotage a relationship with potential.
What is Going on with Roseanne Barr?
What Roseanne has said, done, and what she professes to stand for are appalling, but what must be added to the dialogue is that she did not come to be this way randomly.
How to Deal With Your Partner’s Ex
Encouraging positive communication between your partner and their ex brings peace to your new home and creates a system that has significantly less hostility than would otherwise be the case.
The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Accepting reality that you are in pain and that you must tolerate the unknown in order to feel better is what helps you get through.
When Trauma Affects Your Trust in Your Relationship
Trauma can affect trust and connection in relationships and leave you seeking safety and comfort. Learn how to realistically ask for healthy support from your partner.
Why Donald J. Trump is Unfit to be President
Donald J. Trump’s distorted thinking and impulsive behavior, combined with his fixation on his own importance, directly imperils our safety as citizens of the United States.
The Gut-Wrenching Aftermath of Breakup
Your reactions, regardless of when you have them, are part of your process.
What My German, Jewish Father Learned About Patriotism
Patriotism is your moral compass. It is what you personally know to be right or wrong, not due to the actions outside your self but within you. It resides in your heart.
After Breakup, Understanding Your Identity as an Un-Partnered Person
After breakup, who do you understand yourself to be? A relationship can be an anchor that helps define who you are, to others and also to yourself.
A Letter to Your People: 5 Ways to Help Me Through Breakup
Breakup can be challenging not only for you, but for the people who care about and support you. Here are five key guidelines for the person, people or group you may turn to for support you as you go through withdrawal from your ex.
Decrease Relationship Tension by Recognizing Anger or Emphasis
When you and your partner misinterpret each other’s expressions of excitement or intensity, it can evoke frustration. Then what started out as emphasis can escalate into anger.
You Deserve More Than ‘Friends With Benefits’
Over time, when a person you adore may care deeply for you and your wellbeing, have sex with you at times, but for whatever reason cannot reciprocate the extent of your romantic feelings, it can start to make you feel crazy.
Why Trauma Resurfaces Just as You’re Feeling Better
Ultimately, the more you know about how you got here, the more it starts to decrease the feelings of shame that keep you trapped when you are ready to move forward.
Blame Slows but Anger Can Speed Recovery From Breakup
Acknowledging anger as a normal part of the grieving process can help you feel deserving of good things moving forward.
To Fake It or not to Fake It, That is the Question
Faking it is a slippery slope. If it appears relatively “easy” to make a woman achieve orgasm when it actually isn’t, faking it can set unreal expectations.
Are You Ready to Reconnect With Someone From Your Past?
In the end, feeling better is not necessarily about successfully reuniting; it’s about opening yourself up to letting go of the betrayal and shame you may have experienced as a result of the rupture.
Is it ‘Too Soon’ in the Relationship for Sex?
As painful as it is—and as backward as it seems—there is a common experience in which a woman sleeps with a man in the hopes that sex will encourage a more consistent relationship, and then is disappointed when it doesn’t work.
Resilience Will Help Free You From Your Past
If your past experiences and relationships were so painfully negative and fraught with shame and betrayal that you feel permanently marked by them in your current life, it’s okay to work on letting go and evolving beyond this dead weight.
After Breakup, Who Says Your Feelings Have to Make Sense?
These are not the feelings you’re “supposed” to feel, yet you feel them anyway, and you just can’t seem to make them go away. So now what?
Blake And Gwen: Why An Intense Situation Can Make Opposites Attract
While Blake and Gwen are unique, their situation is not. A heightened, shared experience can bring people together, against all odds.
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Nearly every Red state is bringing anyone who has survived something as horrific as rape to their knees in despair.
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Why Donald J. Trump is Unfit to be President
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The psychiatric problems we saw in 2017 are only getting worse
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