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4 Ways a Healthy Sex Life Supports Good Mental Health

Sexual Health /

A healthy sex life can support mental health by lifting your mood, strengthening your sense of self-worth and connection, helping you sleep better and adding to your overall happiness and closeness with your partner. The benefit isn’t only physical: feeling desired, close and safe with someone matters as much as the act itself. If differences in desire or intimacy are causing stress, working with a couples therapist can help. Every person has essential human needs. […]

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Who Wears the Pants? How to Balance Power in Your Relationship

Couples Counseling, General /

“Wearing the pants” in a relationship means being the partner who holds more power: the one who makes most of the decisions, sets the terms and usually gets their way. The phrase comes from a time when men were assumed to be in charge of the household, but today it applies to any partner in any relationship. A healthy relationship doesn’t need one person wearing the pants; it works best when power and decisions are

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How to Practice Self-Care as a New Mother

New Mother, Parenting /

While there are many surprises and challenges that await you in motherhood, one of the biggest shocks may be time management, or the feeling of being overwhelmed. No matter how happy and fulfilled you may be as a new mom, if you don’t take time out of your busy day to take care of yourself, you’re not giving your precious baby your best self. Ensuring that you practice self-care might seem like the lowest of

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“Why Am I Sad After Sex?” Postcoital Dysphoria & Other Causes

Sexual Health /

Sadness after sex is common and usually not a sign that anything is wrong with you or your relationship. It can come from postcoital dysphoria, a sudden wave of sadness or irritability after sex that researchers don’t fully understand yet, or from things like a lack of emotional connection with your partner, past trauma or shame about sex learned growing up. If it happens often or feels heavy, talking it through with a therapist, through

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5 Ways to Recharge Your Energy After a Rough Day

General /

Few things zap your energy the way a stressful day can. Stress is known to reduce our levels of serotonin and dopamine, neurotransmitters that play an important role in our mood, energy and motivation. After a difficult day, you might be tempted to lounge on the couch watching TV until it’s time to go to bed. Although it might feel good in the moment, it won’t give you the mood and energy lift you need

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The “Q” in LGBTQA: How Do I Know if I’m Not Straight?

LGBTQ /

The study of sexual orientation has been quite a controversial area of psychology, and one that continues to raise numerous questions: What makes a person identify as gay, and what percent of the population currently identify as such? Is sexual orientation determined solely by biology, or what role do early learning and other social experiences play? As complex of an issue as sexual orientation is, it’s easy to see why many people -particularly young people

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Dating After the Death of a Spouse: How to Know You’re Ready

Aging, Couples Counseling /

You’re likely ready to date after the death of a spouse when you can think and talk about your late partner with love more than raw pain, when you want companionship for its own sake rather than to escape loneliness or grief, and when you can imagine someone new without feeling you have to replace the person you lost. There’s no correct timeline, and feeling some guilt or sadness is normal. Understanding how grief changes

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Are the “5 Stages of Grief” Real?

Grief /

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance: these are the very well-known five stages of grief, as postulated by Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying. At the time of the book’s publication, very little instruction was given in medical school on the subject of death and dying, which was what motivated Kübler-Ross to share her findings in her work with terminally ill patients. Since the book’s publication, the five stages of grief have become so well-known

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4 Tips for Making Friends in Your Golden Years

Aging /

Though young people seem to dread getting older, the truth is, many things get better with age. We tend to have more self-confidence, more money in the bank, and more time to explore our goals and dreams. But in some ways, getting older can be difficult. We tend to lose connections with friends and can find ourselves feeling alone and isolated. And it’s not as easy making friend in your 60s, 70s, or 80s as

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4 Healthy Ways to Distract Yourself from Anxiety

Anxiety /

Anxiety is a natural dialogue between our mind and body. It’s a red flag that something might be going on in our surroundings that requires our attention. For most of us, anxiety is an uncomfortable but fleeting feeling that pops up on occasion during particularly stressful times. For some, anxiety may be more present and color more of their daily life. And for still others, anxiety is a constant torture; a nightmare they can’t awaken

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