Breakups, lockdowns, conflict with parents, partners or friends, big life changes, mental health issues, coming to terms with your identity, loneliness, rejection, death and other loss and more: the struggle bus of life is packed sometimes. Here’s some help and information to help get you through.
Emotional Struggles
Articles and Advice in this area:
Advice
- CJ Turett
There’s a lot I want to say, but I need to get a hugely important piece out there as soon as possible. If you are thinking about self-injury, suicide, or hurting someone else there is immediate help available. I want you to stay safe so we can talk more about what is going on with you, so if you are…
Advice
- CJ Turett
Recognizing that you have negative beliefs about sex and sexuality is a huge step in clarifying what you think to be true and the value system you want to follow. That is a major task of growing up, and not just related to sexuality. As we move through youth, adolescence, and young adulthood we are…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
Risk-taking is a very, very normal (I’m going to say it again in case you missed it: VERY normal) part of adolescent and young adult – and overall human – development. When the risks we’re taking are sound risks to BE taking, which involve the possibility of real benefits, that not only isn’t a…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
You’re not inhuman. Please know that. While, sure, some of sexuality is innate, far more of it is learned. So, anyone who is inexperienced and/or without information on sex and sexuality is going to feel uncomfortable, naive and unprepared. Plus, a lot of school-based sex education can be helpful…
