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Toxic Perfectionism As A Woman Of Color
Are You Struggling With Toxic Perfectionism? As a woman of color, you may think you have to work twice as hard to prove yourself in a world that often doesn’t value you. But sometimes, that drive for success can evolve...
The Impact Of Childhood Neglect On Mental Health In Adulthood
Childhood neglect is a type of child maltreatment. This occurs when a child’s basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and emotional support are not met. The possible causes include parental substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, and abuse. This failure of...
Yoni Steaming Benefits: Alternative Care For Our Sacred Space
As women of color, we are often directed by society on how to best deal with our physical and reproductive care without knowing the serious ramifications. It is no surprise that people of color have a tumultuous relationship with the...
Self Pleasure: Kicking The Stigma Of Female Masturbation
The M-word, masturbation (women self pleasure), can be a very touchy subject. It still remains a major taboo despite the fact that the world has become more open about sexuality. This idea of touching yourself can make even the most...
Understanding Mental Health Stigma In Communities Of Color
Mental health has become a hot topic with more people opening up and seeking help. There is still, however, a stigma surrounding mental health, especially within communities of color. This mental health stigma often results in mental health issues going...
How Does Fashion Impact Mental Health?
Picture this —you are getting ready to go out for a Girls Night. It is late and part of you would rather skulk into a giant t-shirt and cuddle up to Netflix. But you promised your friends. Rummaging through your...
How Being Stuck In A Pandemic Changed My Life
The Pandemic Changed My Life The air is still, the streets are empty, but life behind walls has been everything but calm. Life and everything as we know it changed, and now the new task that we face is adaptation....
The Best Lessons Learned In Life During The Pandemic
In An Instant, Everything Changed On March 6, 2020, Jamaica announced its first case of COVID-19, the mysterious virus that has been — and still is — wreaking biological havoc all over the world. Since then, the ticking of the metronome of time and...
Toxic Perfectionism As A Woman Of Color
Are You Struggling With Toxic Perfectionism? As a woman of color, you may think you have to work twice as hard to prove yourself in a world that often doesn’t value you. But sometimes, that drive for success can evolve...
Mastering Your Emotions: A Guide to Emotional Regulation
Emotions are a natural part of our lives but can sometimes feel overwhelming and out of control. That’s where emotional regulation comes in. Emotional regulation is to manage and respond to your emotions instead of letting them control you. In...
The Impact Of Childhood Neglect On Mental Health In Adulthood
Childhood neglect is a type of child maltreatment. This occurs when a child’s basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and emotional support are not met. The possible causes include parental substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, and abuse. This failure of...
Understanding Mental Health Stigma In Communities Of Color
Mental health has become a hot topic with more people opening up and seeking help. There is still, however, a stigma surrounding mental health, especially within communities of color. This mental health stigma often results in mental health issues going...
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How To Stop Stress Eating During The Pandemic
This pandemic has been stressful, to say the least. With everything going on, many of us have resorted to stress eating to try to dull the pain, ease the anxiety, or just to feel alive again. Although stress eating is...
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The Rise In Substance Abuse + Substance Use Disorders During The Pandemic
This pandemic has been hard on all of our souls. It’s been particularly hard for people who were already facing mental health disorders, including substance use disorder. Preliminary research has shown that problems with drug and alcohol addiction have gone...
What Are Coping Strategies To Deal With The Pandemic
I don’t need to parrot what’s already been said by pretty much everyone the world over already, but I’ll say it anyway: 2020 has been the pits. From the fear and loss to the confusion about what the future will...
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Why Is It Important To Be Honest About Your Emotions?
Being Honest About Our Emotions For Personal Growth “I’m good” “I’m okay” We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a family member, a romantic partner, friends, or colleagues. A terse smile in a complicated situation. We all deflect questions about our...
How To Be More Mindful When Your Mind’s Full?: The Solace In Silence
Be mindful, you don’t always need to fill the void, finding solace in silence can be a worth wild experience. I’ve always loved the sound of nothing. Most times I can’t get to actually enjoy silence like I’d want to...
Call Me Crazy (A Mental Health Movie Review)
Mental health is a topic that has been of great controversy since the beginning of time. Throughout history, it has been heavily stigmatized and has been referred to as lunacy, madness, and during the Middle Ages, people were even accused...
Is The Law Of Attraction Real?: Manifestation Techniques
I am sure that many of you, if not all, have heard the saying “life and death is in the power of the tongue.” Just as how uttering certain things into the universe may alter life as you know it,...
A Mansplainer!? How To Deal With Mansplaining At Work
Imagine this: You’re at a friend’s small get-together having a blast. The background music was picked as if it were made to be the soundtrack to your own iconic 90’s movie. Everyone’s enjoying themselves, the conversations are riveting, and laughter...
Love Letters To Myself: Dear Past, Present and Future Me
Let’s Talk; It’s Time To Catch Up I’ve always loved writing letters to myself. There’s something so lovely about putting in the time to being honest, hopeful, and open to writing to myself, for myself. It is very therapeutic. I...
Setting Boundaries About Emotional Dumping With Your Loved Ones
What Is Emotional Dumping? We’ve all been there: you’re minding your own business when you receive a text, phone call, or (god-forbid) FaceTime call from that one friend or family member. You already know how this is going to play...
My Boyfriend Wants An Open Relationship, But I Don’t
So, my boyfriend of three years recently told me that he wants an open relationship. If that wasn’t bad enough, he brought it to my knowledge in a way that makes it seem like I have no choice but to...
Mother, I Don’t Want To Get Married
My boyfriend and I have lived in the same community for pretty much our whole lives. We’ve known each other for so long that, at least to me, we’re more like brother and sister than anything else. My mother is...
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