As a counselor, one of my primary values is supporting the whole person – including their sexuality. Counseling involves developing a relationship of trust and opening yourself to a stranger in vulnerable ways. It’s critical for me that clients know it is safe to bring all of themselves into the room with me.
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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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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
Maybe you’ve heard the term Sex-Positive or maybe you haven’t. If you have, you might be wondering what it means? Fair question. Let’s start with that! The Sex-Positive movement is founded on these 3 beliefs: Education: Everyone should have access to comprehensive sex education. This curriculum ideally includes clear education on our bodies and how
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One of the things I get to do in my professional life is facilitate groups for the Embody Love Movement. Founded by Dr. Melody Moore, her inspiration for this curriculum was a group of teen female identifying clients she worked with as a group. They are now known as the ELM Warriors. Over the years
Is there anything as magical as having a new child in your life? As wonderful and exciting as this time can be, it is also exhausting and challenging. This is especially true as it relates to your relationship with your partner. You go from being playmates and lovers to having this huge, time-consuming, shared responsibility.
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