This category explores what it actually looks like to build and maintain healthy relationships in real life, not just in theory. You’ll find guidance on communication, conflict, repair, boundaries, intimacy, and the messy humanity that comes with loving other people. Every post is grounded in clinical insight and practical tools you can use today. And remember, relationships are relationships are relationships are relationships.
If touch or pleasure have ever felt complicated, inconsistent, or even unavailable, especially after stress, trauma, parenting, illness, or disconnection, you’re not alone. Introducing the pleasure ladder. Many people think of pleasure as a binary experience: either you want it or you don’t. But pleasure isn’t a switch; it’s a relationship, and one that shifts…
What can monogamous couples learn from non-monogamy? Well, monogamy is often treated as the default. It is rarely questioned, rarely discussed, and rarely examined with the same intention people bring to other aspects of their lives. You fall in love, you commit, and monogamy is assumed… unless someone explicitly names otherwise. However, when a relationship…
If you’ve spent any time in the self-development or pop psychology world lately, you’ve probably heard about attachment styles. They’re everywhere: TikTok, relationship advice columns, podcasts, even memes. However, while attachment theory is an incredibly powerful lens, much of what is circulating online oversimplifies a deeply nuanced topic. As a therapist who works with all…
by JR Stubblefield Ah, The One. You know who I’m talking about. Your soulmate. Your better half. Your good time, dandy. The missing piece to your puzzle that fills those hard-to-reach heart crannies with chocolate and smooches. They’re out there somewhere waiting for the opportune time to sweep you off your feet and mend those…
Anxiety affects quite a few humans on this planet. More & more people are affected as we’re learning with all the furthering research in the mental health field. Maybe even some people that you love and are in a relationship with. It can feel messy to navigate loving someone who struggles with anxiety. This is…
Breakups are the fucking worst— let’s just call them what they are. They’re often hard, confusing, messy, and painful. While simultaneously, they’re completely necessary. Today, we’re talking all about how to have a healthy breakup. Our society has created stigmas around breakups that add a little extra shame in the mix. Whether we’re getting broken up…
The phrase “self-care routine” is very catchy right now and has been floating around the internet, making Facebook scrollers & Buzzfeed quiz-takers stop and open articles at an alarming rate for the last two decades– and we love to see it! The creation of a self-care routine seems to be at an observable peak of…
Our attachment style can help us better understand why we react (and how our partners react) the way we do in our relationships. This is an article expanding on the four attachment styles and how to figure out your attachment style. One disclaimer: This concept is a large psychological theory and while we’re doing our…
By Jennah DuBois When it comes to communication about sex with our partners, sometimes it can feel like speaking a foreign language. But guess what? It doesn’t have to! Not only is the sex-positivity movement about our personal sexual empowerment, but it’s also about learning to be empathetic, attentive partners with all of our sexual…
by Jennah DuBois Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (but still oh so familiar), we lived in an idealistic world where we watched movies and TV shows about love at first sight, played make-believe weddings with our friends, swooned over games of M.A.S.H. in middle school, and survived tragic heartbreaks in…