The Need for Foreplay - How Warming Up Helps
The idea of sex is a controversial one. In most cultures, sex is spoken with supreme consideration and care. The words associated with sex fall on the ears of those that have been chosen to hear them.
Sex and Body Image
Where intimacy is involved, there you will find bodies. Now, I must assert that intimacy comes in two different fashions -physical and emotional. Today, we explore the primary confines of physical intimacy in relation to body image.
The Body Image Problem
What defines the line between looking good and feeling good looking? Confidence. This is the answer. We are ingrained with multimedia messages berating us to look a certain way, so much so that many articles have been written on the subject.
I grieved a living person
It is common to think that grief centers around losing a person or beloved animal to death. I had this mindset for the longest time, whereby we shed tears of a different pain when someone is lost to us forever…
Traumatize Me
What does it mean? Trauma, what do they mean? Traumatized. What do I do? Traumatic how am I doing?
“You’re the problem” - 3 things to do when you think you’re dysfunctional
The title speaks for itself, but there often is no simple way to say it. What happens when we’re told by someone that we are what is wrong with the relationship? What does that even mean in the first place? Hear me out here.
What is a Toxic Person? The 3 things that make someone “toxic”
In the course of my time as a clinical counsellor, I have come across many who have shared about some kind of toxicity in their lives…
I put boundaries with my mother (Part 2)
I put boundaries with my mother by simply stating that ties would be cut. She is to be distanced from my own family, which comprised my wife and kids…
I put boundaries with my mother (Part 1)
Parent-child relationships are complex things, filled with trials and tribulations. The complication comes with heightened emotions and opinions, especially as the people involved progressively age…