Jennifer Given-Helms

Bonus week – Podcast Interview with Staci Haines

Check out this link for a thoughtful, sex positive discussion on healing, resilience and pleasure. Staci is a somatic teacher, passionate about social justice and creating spaces for healing from sexual trauma that include pleasure. She is also both the founder of generation FIVE, a non-profit with the mission to end child abuse within five […]

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Book Review: Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown

Brené Brown is a researcher with a strong social justice framework. For the past decade she has focused her research on shame and shame resiliency. She is also an engaging writer and has written several books. Daring Greatly was released in September of 2017 and includes all her research to-date, including a new area around

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Book Review: Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us, by CN Lester

“Opening ourselves up to the trans experience – whether or not we see ourselves as trans – means embracing a new way of seeing the world. It requires trust, empathy, and imagination. It is not a one-way process, but a journey we are all on together.” CN Lester has seamlessly blended their personal experiences, social

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Book Review: S.E.X. the all-you-need-to-know sexuality guide to get you through your teens and twenties, by Heather Corinna

Heather Corinna is the founder and director of Scarleteen and it’s website scarleteen.com. If you haven’t heard of this site before, it is a great resource for teens for all things sex and sexuality related. Heather writes openly and candidly in a way that is accessible to teens and people in their twenties. Much of

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