Living with anxiety often comes with the constant fear or worry of having to confront unwanted flashbacks, disturbing thoughts, or overwhelming emotions that can lead to crippling panic attacks. In times like this, practicing grounding techniques can help you find your center and live in the moment. Click for 8 different techniques to manage anxiety.

Being an immigrant in the U.S. is not easy, whether that is the immigration process, xenophobia, racism, etc. Amanda shares similarly with many of their second-generation, child-of-immigrant-parent peers the want to find what they love to do and also navigate privilege that their parents didn’t and still don’t have. Click here for more about assessing privilege and building community as second-gen immigrants.

The historical news of the U.S. Supreme Court deciding to overturn Roe v. Wade, the constitutional right to abortion. It didn’t feel surprising, it felt in alignment with how the system continually acts to uphold White Supremacy and White Christian Nationalism under the guise of constitutional rights. Read more on why therapists should talk about the overturn and how to take a stand.

When everything is a disaster, it’s easy to figure out what you should talk about in therapy. Conflict, sadness, anxiety, relationship problems, friendship problems, parent stuff, body image, identity, etc. etc. Pleeeenty of content for a 50 minute session. It's those moments when things are actually going well, when just before your session you think: “What am I going to talk about today?” Click here for 5 topics to explore when it feels like things are going well and you’ve got nothing to talk about.

Any relationship between human beings carries with it countless internal and external pressures that require awareness, insight, communication, negotiation, and communication. These are important in any relationship, and when you invite another person into your relationship, complications and possibilities multiply. I want to welcome you all to the expansive, confusing, and wonderful world of consensual non-monogamy (CNM) and polyamory (or poly).

Surprise! Therapists are humans and also go to therapy! Gaby Teresa shares her recent breakthroughs in her own therapy experiences as a queer, Latina woman and therapist. Click here to learn more about how women are forced to stay silent and how to move forward in your own healing journey. Because mira, we’ve got to stop silencing women. Especially BIPOC women.

In therapy, it is very common to have questions about yourself, the therapeutic process, and your therapist. Over the years that I have practiced as a therapist, I have seen a common thread of questions that are frequently asked by my clients. We hope the answers to these six common therapy questions will help you understand therapy better and feel validated in your experience.

This blog is here to serve as a sex re-education of sorts. It’s going to begin to explore how to teach others, and ourselves, about navigating sex without a shame-based perspective. Sex education is an expansive topic, so this will not cover gender exploration, specifics around sexual identity exploration, or the like. It is a starting place to be of service to your inner child or potentially an avenue for you to discuss sex in a new way with the children in your life that you love.

Restricting or eliminating access to abortion, thus forcing someone to experience trauma and/or carry a child to term against their will is, incontestably, part of this same systems of oppression. This is about the regulation of certain bodies, and it is about how we govern, how we think of human rights, and how systems of oppression divide us. Click here to learn more and take action.