health and wellness
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When we think about having mind-blowing orgasms or opening up our relationships into ethical non-monogamy/polyamory, we don’t often think about all the grief we’re going to have to move through in order to get there. We often only talk about grief when it comes to the death of a loved one (or a complicated one).
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Throughout my training to expand my skills in sex counselling, sex therapy, and as a relationship therapist there were courses on all sorts of approaches to psychotherapy: cognitive-behavioural, existential, Gestalt, Rogerian, psychodynamic… it’s a lot to keep in mind as a therapist studying the material let alone as someone looking for tools and approaches to
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A common question that I think all sexual health workers hear at some point is: “am I normal?” I don’t love the word normal because I think for many folks it looks something like this: Normal = common = good/right [and this is problematic for many reasons]. But lots of things are common and not
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CS: reflected in title, this is an article for transgender folks- Chinese Medicine, Natural Transition (using plant-medicines to alter hormones or ease hormone therapy symptoms/post-surgery symptoms), and the Gender Binary Do yin and yang make Chinese Medicine binary? Yin and yang are often associated with female and male energy respectively, which leads to the misconception
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CS: The following post is written by LGBTQ-informed pelvic physiotherapist Michelle Fraser, who has taken the time to share some of her knowledge regarding pelvic health in the context of trans birth. There is mention of vaginal/rectal health, as well as a mention of trauma with no details. What is pelvic health physiotherapy? Pelvic health
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