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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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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.
