Here’s where you can read about feelings: created by our brains and endocrine systems in response to the rest of our bodies, our memories, and our lives in the world. All kinds of emotions – happiness, sadness, worry, sympathy, affection, embarrassment, envy, love – can be in play with our experiences of ourselves, sex, sexuality and relationships. Gaining awareness, acceptance and understanding of our feelings can be central to living with them and navigating things like mental illness and emotional wellbeing.
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- Heather Corinna
Breakups sure can suck. But you can get through them, and come out on the other side okay. Find out what can make that easier, what can make them harder, and some ways to help yourself with so you can deal, heal and get back to the business of being your kickass self.
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- Jacob Mirzaian
In life, generally, we can get ourselves in a pickle and need someone to talk to. Our friends and families love us, they can have great advice, but sometimes it doesn’t match up with what we need or want and we don’t want to offload on them or ask them for some new advice and tell them some of their well-meaning words didn’t work and “so… can we try something else?”. Which is how I have felt a lot of the time.
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…
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- 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…
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- Heather Corinna
Your issues of sexual satisfaction and your issues of considering opening up your relationship when it comes to dating others strike me as two different issues. We’re rarely going to meet a new partner who just lucks into knowing exactly what to do for sex to be satisfying for us. In fact, it’s much…
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- 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…
