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Your Ultimate Guide to Pride (Sex, Gender and Orientations)
June is Pride Month. Pride month celebrates taking pride in your sexuality and sexual orientations. With the long and discriminatory history to deviant sexual orientations, it is very little common knowledge about sexuality. This post will list and explain the different sexual and romantic orientations. My hope is that through this post, people become educated and aware that there is more than one orientation, and that through understanding the spectrum, tolerance and love is built. First, we need to establish some definitions.
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5 Horrible Questions to Ask A New College Graduate (And What to Say Instead)
If you have ever went to college (and graduated), you know that the questions asked of you on your graduation day are intrusive, insensitive, and anxiety provoking. The reality is that on graduation day, graduates have probably just finished finals within that week. They probably have gone through so many changing emotions, and they are probably super concerned with the next phase of life without the pressuring questions to dwell on it even more. With that said, here are 5 questions NOT to ask a college graduate, and what you should say instead.
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You Are NOT “So OCD”: Here’s 7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Saying You Are
This topic was requested by a loyal follower with OCD. However, this topic is also very dear to my heart. As someone in the mental health field, I cringe any time I hear someone use a mental illness to describe a normal behavioral nuance. Unfortunately, I hear this one a lot. I have even been told by others that I am “so OCD.” Most times, I correct them. On rare occasions when I just did not have the strength to explain, I let it slide. However, this topic absolutely needs to be addressed. It is important that people understand mental illness so that we can remove the stigma and create…
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7 Types of Prejudice and How to Recognize Them by Their Microaggressions
February, though the month of love, is also Black History Month. It is a time to reflect on how far we have come as a society with being accepting of African-Americans and people who are generally different. However, it is also a time to consider how far we still need to go. Racism is a social system that many of us participate in indirectly. When we see inequality, racism and prejudice behavior, even when they are shown through microaggressions, and we refuse to speak up about, we have helped to perpetuate that inequality. It is, however, impossible to speak up about inequality when we do not know what it is…
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Top 7 Signs That A Man Truly Loves You and Not Just Playing With Your Mind
How do you know if a man truly loves you? Many women ask this at one point in time or another. This article will tell you the top 7 signs he loves you
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Avoid Toxic Relationships by Unlearning these 7 Harmful Myths About Love
Toxic relationships are seemingly inevitable. We all end up in one at some point. However, unlearning these harmful myths about love could help avoid them.
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Dating Someone With Relationship Anxiety? Here are 7 Things to Remember
Relationship anxiety is a something we rarely talk about. Anxiety is a disorder of worrying. Relationship anxiety is worrying about personal relationships
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10 Ways He Can Abuse You Without Hitting You: Surviving R. Kelly Proves Domestic Violence is More than Hitting
Domestic Abuse (Domestic Violence) is frequent, but people do not recognize non-physical signs of abuse. Here are 10 ways abuse occurs beyond hitting.
