by Jessica | Feb 9, 2024 | Article, Jessica Adams, Selflove
– If I scream, they sure will hear me? Right?!? … I used to think that I was forever stuck in the fight for my voice to be heard. That I would never be able to let my guard down … It was a cold winter’s morning, with the fire in my psychologist’s practice offering me...
by Laura Bogush | Feb 9, 2024 | Article, Body Connection, Laura Bogush, Selflove
“Do you think maybe it was a mistake to break up?” I said to a former boyfriend during a phone conversation, 3 months after he ended our relationship. I was devastated and unable to heal. He kept calling me. Our relationship had lasted several years, my first real...
by Lakota | Feb 7, 2024 | Article, Body Connection, Lakota Fredette, Selflove
“You’ll be a pretty girl when you grow up” my dad said when I was probably around 10. I felt like I was in a car driving on the highway and hit a road block as soon as I heard this. I tried so hard to be what he wanted, to be someone he could tolerate spending any...
by Lisa Kan | Feb 7, 2024 | Article, Lisa Kan, Self-Pleasure, Selflove, Sex Toys
I was colliding with my “good girl” façade. I was wrestling with what I was told I was supposed to be, and the lived experience of failure that demanded I crack the façade and dance with carnal desires. I sat on the bathroom floor crying ugly tears. My marriage was...
by Lincoln | Feb 7, 2024 | Article, Lincoln, Selflove
Ishaan’s mother refused to come downstairs to our Christmas party, pouting in her room for the evening instead. “She doesn’t feel like we’re welcoming her,” Ishaan hissed at me as our guests arrived. Towards the end of the evening ten or so of us began playing that...
by Tosh Patterson | Feb 7, 2024 | Article, Selflove, Tosh Patterson, Vulva
I watched him smell his left fingers. He slowly sniffed the middle two. “Smell,” he said. I held his hand and sniffed his middle fingers. The aroma smelled familiar, but I could not place it. “What is it?” I asked. “You,” he...
