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The Quiet Voice: How I Stopped Listening to Emotional Abuse
Some forms of abuse, like physical abuse or some kinds of sexual assault, are more easily identified by victims or witnesses. Conversely, gaslighting is a type of non-event, a toxic presence that chips away at a person’s wellbeing over time. Gaslighting is a powerful abuse tactic, although a lesser known one. It is notoriously difficult to understand and recognize, especially for a victim.
I'm a Mom Through Adoption Working To Recognize What My Daughter and Her Other Mother Have Lost
The day my daughter was born was the happiest of my life. It also just so happened to be one of the hardest for her other mama.
This Place
I’ve changed dramatically because of this place that never insisted I change. This place where it didn’t matter how—or even if—I was sexual gave me sexuality as something I could live. Sex became something I could know about, talk about, do, enjoy and choose. My body became livable. Imagine that.
Four Crucial Queer Survival Tips for 2019
As we approach this new annum and everything that lies in store, instead of thinking about the ephemera one could manifest into being, I want to ask how we create the space to make our queer love and joy stand out and shine.
Where The Wild Things Are, Or, How Scarleteen Came to Be
We had the means to help, and the motivation. So we did. But we didn’t want to provide just any old sex ed, or to cut-and-paste other people’s content. We wanted to do it better. It was important to us that the sex education we offered be as real as we could make it.
Impurity Culture: On Sexuality & Sin
What is sexual sin anyway? Impurity Culture's Hannah Boning offers her unique perspective on the bible, sin, and sexuality.
Making Sense of Sexual Media
What is sexual media, how might we think wisely about it, and how can we figure out how to feel and what choices to make with it?
I Feel Good: Pleasure and Fulfillment
A guide to getting pleasure and fulfillment out of life from places besides sex or romance.
Process This: Getting the Most Out of Therapy
You're considering or have made it to therapy. Now how do you do your part to benefit from it?
Literacy is Power: How to Get Yourself a Kick-Butt BS Detector
Advice for sorting good information from the bad.
Rebélate Bien: Guía de supervivencia para una América con Trump para adolescentes y jóvenes adultos
Bajo un gobierno Trump muchos estadounidenses, especialmente los más vulnerables, van a doler y luchar. Muchos de nosotros necesitamos protegernos; Todos nosotros necesitamos ayudar a proteger y cuidar el uno al otro. He aquí una extensa guía para ayudarte a hacer ambas cosas.
Rebel Well: A Starter Survival Guide To A Trumped America
Under a Trump administration many Americans, especially the most vulnerable, are going to hurt and struggle. Many of us need to protect ourselves; all of us need to help protect and care for each other. Here's an extensive guide to help you do both.
The Scarleteen Safety Plan
If you're in an abusive relationship, to make abuse stop you've got to get away and stay away. Here's help to do that safely, and to be as safe as you can before leaving.
Pregnancy Scared?
Worried you might be pregnant? Evaluate your risk, find out what steps you may need to take next, check in with your feelings and by all means, breathe. We're here to walk you through it.
How Do I Tell a Date I'm Autistic?
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all process for tackling this issue, but here's a little help from one person with Autism to another, so you can figure out some concrete ways of scaling what can feel like an immense social mountain.
The Pregnancy Panic Companion
In the thick of a pregnancy scare? Freaking out? Not sure what to do? Welcome to your virtual pregnancy scare doula.
Be Your Own Superhero: Learning How and When to Stand Up for Ourselves
Feel like being able to clearly set boundaries, stick to them, and assert yourself must require superpowers? Nope! You've already got all the goods: here's how to develop and use them!
Have a Little Faith in BC
An article about choosing methods and trusting methods
Self-Care When It's Scary
At Scarleteen, we're all about making choices. But sometimes, we see users making choices that are, ultimately, the opposite of the self-care the need in that moment.
Anxiety Lies.
The same disorder that makes me feel so insecure, tense, vulnerable and outright petrified, also convinces me that it’s protecting me from harm. The disorder that terrorizes me persuades me to keep it active, as a security system, even though it is anything but.
You're Not Pregnant. Why Do You Think You Are?
Some people struggle with strong pregnancy fears when there isn't a pregnancy or hasn't even been any real risk of pregnancy. What's that really about, and how can you move forward?
Self-Care: A La Carte!
Some helps for the care and keeping of you when you're stressed, depressed, riddled with anxiety or fear or going through something wretched and trying to come out the other side.
Young people need our help and support. We need yours.
As we begin our 15th year, we need help to keep Scarleteen up and thriving. Find out how just $20 a month can improve the lives of young people around the world.
When Sex "Just Happened" (And How to Make It Happen Instead)
Does sex feel like it's "just happening," rather than something you're actively doing? Here's how to change that.
Lube 101: A Slick Little Primer
Meet our good friend, Lube. It can't create world peace, but it can make some kinds of sex more comfortable, masturbation or other sex you already enjoy even better, help prevent condoms from breaking and more.