Sometimes amid damaging patterns, the loss of people we love, our creeping self-doubt and bone-tiredness with grey—we need reminding our life has been here, beautiful and shining, the whole time. Read more
The Sound Of The Bell As It Leaves The Bell
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I’m Still Here After 20 Years Of Suicidal Thoughts: How Did That Happen?
I tried to throw myself in front of a train on my 30th birthday. I spent an hour, two—time was gauzy—trying to get myself airborne. But a chain kept pulling me up short, the kind that allows backyard dogs just so close to the fence. At the time I thought it was God. Read more
How To Find A Therapist Who Understands Oppression And Intersectionality
Four questions to ask to find a therapist who ‘gets it.’ Read more
Why I’ve Turned To Kink, Therapy, And Gaming To Heal From Trauma
For veterans, watching 15 minutes of a combat movie created an amount of analgesia that was equivalent to an injection of 8 milligrams of morphine. Read more
Cats Are The Unsung Heroes Of Mental Health
“If you have a cat in the room, when there starts to be a fight or the tension starts to rise, it is going to get up and want to leave, or is going to at least pick its head up and signal that it’s getting uncomfortable. It’s really easy to watch the cat’s behavior and say, ‘That’s interesting, what did the cat just do?’… And then you can say, ‘Let’s see if we can have this same conversation and have the cat in the room. Let’s see if we can talk about this in a way that allows the cat to go back to sleep.’” Read more