Your Sexual Yes/No/Maybe Checklists Updated
You might have seen our post last year about the Sexual Yes, No, Maybe checklists as we’ve recommended to sex therapists and other providers who want to help their clients spice up or improve their sex lives. These organized checklists are just as useful to couples and singletons because you can explore things to try…
Looking at Serial Monogamy
With much attention being given to polyamory, Consensual Non-Monogamy, and group ventures lately, it’s easy for other relationship types to be overlooked. This is the case for serial monogamy or staying single for relatively short time periods before entering another committed relationship. While many engage in this relationship-hopping pattern, the intricacies of this dating style…
Motherhood Series: Where IVF Fits in a Post-Roe World
This article mentions sexual assault. In the months since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, it is clear that womb-owners’ bodily autonomy and the right to remain child-free are on the line as more states have restricted access to safe abortion measures. What remains unclear is how these new laws will affect want-to-be parents who…
What is a Sex Therapist?
What is a Sex Therapist? Though many of us know what therapists do, there is still a veil of mystery for some concerning sex therapists. So what is a sex therapist? Sex therapists are licensed mental health clinicians with additional training that better enables them to help their clients with sexual health concerns such as…
Motherhood Series: Childfree by Choice
When discussing parenting and all that follows this giant decision, it is easy to forget about the conscious decision to not have children. Although for long periods throughout history this was less of a choice due to individual positionality, capital production, and associated stigma, the number of people now choosing to be childfree has increased…
Motherhood Series: Birth Trauma and the Mitigating Role of Doulas and Midwives
While the birth of one’s child is often an empowering, positive experience, viewing all births this way limits the ability of mothers, their partners, and their children to feel and express any negative attitudes toward this momentous journey. Labor and delivery is a deeply personal and varying experience for each mother and each birth. Feeling…
Motherhood Series: Sex Positive Parenting
As the priorities of children today shift towards more inclusive and fluid goals, the objectives of parenting must inherently also shift away from more traditional and conservative values. The dual-dynamic of parenting is complex, as your choices and relationship with your child as a parent can sometimes intersect or move in different directions. This is…
When Does Therapy End?
This past Wednesday, the love of my life officially broke up with me. After a two-year-long relationship of growth, resilience, and lots of tears, it’s over. I’ll miss our weekly dates, but I feel reassured knowing there was nothing more she had hoped to teach me in our time together. Our relationship single-handedly changed my…
The Debate Around Sex Education in Schools
Whether across political party lines, religious associations, or age groups, everyone seems to hold a strong, set opinion on sex education in schools. Though these varying opinions are certainly all valid, SHA would like to expand on some statistics related to this matter to help make these discussions fact-based and comprehensive in nature so that…
What Makes a Therapist Kink-Aware or Kink-Friendly?
While many people worry about what a therapist will think of them when they step into the office and display their vulnerability, people who enjoy kink may be especially concerned about being judged by their therapist–and other negative fallout. Unfortunately, we live in a society that isn’t always sex-positive, so kinky people’s fears aren’t unfounded….