The Body Is Not An Apology – Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Every Body

How Do I Survive Deep Shame and Loneliness?

There is shame in wanting something we don’t have, when it feels outside of our control and we have no way to fix it. It is hard not to take it personally when you are the only person you know who isn’t in a relationship or who spends most of their time alone, not by choice. It can be challenging to sit with the feelings of not being chosen.

4 Ways I Live Well with Chronic Anxiety and Depression

Living well with chronic anxiety and/or depression is a challenge that I really wish fewer people had to face. Battling something that never seems to go away can feel frustrating and futile. But as far as I am concerned, good living is something well worth fighting for.

12 Signs Your Exhaustion Is Due to Emotional Labor — And How to Create Healthy Boundaries

Emotional labor should not be the physical labor through which we are exploited by capitalism, it should be the practice of loving through which we achieve personal transformation and collective liberation.

10 Strategies for Surviving Christmas Season With Family

For many of us, the holiday season is one of the most stressful times of the year.

“But He Never Hit Me”: How I Realized My Partner Was Emotionally Abusive

It was some time before I realized I loved the potential of who he could be, not who he actually was.

Letting Go of the Fantasy: 7 Ways to Heal Toxic Family Relationships

Sometimes the deepest healing comes from letting go of the illusion that your family member is a perfect person who knows how to love you the way you need them to.

How I Learned to be Naked: Listening to My Body and Healing Body Shame

I was preparing to be rejected. Instead I was greeted with applause and tears.

“Stop Looking At Your Phone”?: 5 Ways Internet Technology Helps My Queer, Neurodivergent Family

For some people, that iPad is as much a valuable tool as an electric wheelchair is for others.

10 formas de revisar tus privilegios en relación con trabajadores de la comida rápida y otros servicios

Lo que los trabajadores de la industria necesitan es, además de sueldos razonables y beneficios laborales, que se los trate con un mínimo de decencia y respeto, como todas las personas y seres vivos deberían ser tratados.

Help Isn’t a Favor: Creating Intimacy and Connection in Disability

The outliers are the ones who know just what to say. It seems so simple — How can I help? — but it unfurls like a revelation.

A Heartbreaking Vote: The Implications of #Brexit For Equality and Social Justice

British people will have less opportunity to visit other countries and learn about different cultures, while more licence could well be given for racism and bigotry towards immigrants and people of color living within the country.

6 Situations Where Weight Loss May Not Make Sense – Even If You Think It Does

There’s good reason to take weight out of the equation.

3 Ways Toxic Masculinity Harmed Me as a Male Survivor of Abuse

I was repeatedly given the message – both by my abuser herself and by the rest of the world – that men who get hit did something to deserve it, and complaining about it makes me less of a man.

How Do We Really See Each Other Across Identities?: Notes From A Queer Breakup

I question how much true affirmation is possible between two people when at least one person doesn’t understand their partner’s lived experience, or moreover, make a concerted effort to understand.

Unhappy Holidays?: 3 Things to Remember About Your Holiday Depression

It’s okay to have an unhappy holiday.

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