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our passions, our own big feelings, our values.
We’re excited to share our humanity with you!
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Check out our new series, Surviving 2025, for blog posts specifically selected to help you better cope with the challenging twists and turns that this year has in store.
On Why Self-Care Needs to Include Rest
Rest and rejuvenation are critical to supporting us as humans. Our society prioritizes doing over being and thus self-care has come to mean engaging in a lot of activity. Read on to learn more about why doing nothing is essential for true self-care.
On Bisexual Erasure and Why It Matters...
There are a whole lot of misconceptions about bisexual folx, and these result in decreased acceptance and erasure from within heteronormative society and from within LGBTQ+ communities.
On Why Starting Sex Therapy with Your Partner Can Be Life-Changing
Sex is a big part of life! So, when partners are having difficulties around sex, it takes up a lot of space in the relationship. Read on to learn about all of the ways that starting sex therapy can benefit your relationship and get some of your most burning questions answered!
On the Importance of Reconnecting with Our Nervous System
Tracking our embodiment is important because it helps us integrate and make meaning of our emotional experience. Emotions live in our body—without paying attention to what sensations arise in our bodies we are mostly thoughts, content, and analysis with no grounding in our authentic feelings.
On Multi-Cultural Partnerships & Why Discussing Cultural Difference is So Important
We’re often told that love does not see color. And despite the well-meaning hope of optimism this phrase aims to perseverate into our society, failing to recognize the ethnic differences in yourself and your partner can ultimately be harmful to the relationship
On Creative Burnout & Five Steps to Help Get Back to Your Flow
In our society we talk about burnout a lot in the context of being overworked and disliking our jobs. What happens when we’re able to turn something we love into our job? Creative burnout is more common than most people think and it can feel very discouraging.
On Parenting in a Pandemic & The Importance of Being a “Good Enough” Parent
As parents, many of us strive to be perfect. We are afraid of what failure might look like and the possibility of hurting those we love most dearly: our children. What about being “good enough?” The idea is that babies and children actually benefit when their parents are imperfect…
On Why Sensitivity is a Strength & How We Can All Benefit from Being More Sensitive
For highly sensitive people, pausing to consider what we do and how we engage in something is a cornerstone of our trait. Sensitivity is a strength that we can all use to cultivate more empathy and humanity in our leadership. Read on to learn about embracing sensitivity!
On Standing Against AAPI Hate
Discrimination and violence against Asian communities impacts us all. At Kindman & Co., we denounce and stand against anti-Asian racism. Read on for more about our stance and ways to take action in support of the AAPI community.