How Understanding Your Window of Tolerance Can Help You Stay Emotionally Regulated
When someone cuts you off in traffic or confronts you about a mistake, how do you react? Do you accept the situation with grace and move on with your day? Or do you get angry and yell, try to escape, or withdraw into yourself? If you always overreact or shut down when...
A Sex Positive Guide to the Pros and Cons of Virtual Reality Porn
The adult entertainment industry is estimated to be worth $2.9 billion globally, a sizeable chunk with plenty of room for investment. It's no surprise that when virtual reality (VR) began to be used more widely in all kinds of media, virtual reality porn also...
How to Recognize Signs of Financial Abuse In Relationships
Financial abuse takes many forms and can sometimes be more subtle than physical, verbal or emotional abuse. One of the insidious aspects of financial abuse is that it can occur in any interpersonal relationship, from those with family members to a romantic...
10 Signs of Sexual Abuse To Be Concerned About
The signs of sexual abuse are not always easy to spot. Over the last hundred years or so, long-term trends show that incidence is decreasing, but child maltreatment is still a major health issue in society. The internet has provided abusers with a new, direct route...
12 Tell-Tale Signs of a Toxic Relationship
Toxic relationships can be tricky to navigate, and it can be difficult to know when to leave a long-term relationship. It can also be a challenge to recognize the signs of a toxic relationship, if you’ve invested a lot of time into it - especially because not all...
8 Ways to Identify Quiet Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental illness characterized by intense emotional reactions that can affect mood, behavior, self-image, and relationships. According to recent studies, the condition affects 1.6% of the general population. As common as BPD is...
Social Media & Mental Health
Currently, in a pandemic, more people than ever are turning to social media platforms to connect with their loved ones around the world. In fact, there has been an exponential increase in social media usage long young people in recent years even prior to the pandemic,...
Neuroception: How Your Brain Decides if Your World is Safe
Have you ever heard the phrase, "live in the moment"? Turns out, it's an impossible task. See, we can consciously perceive each moment as we become aware of it. But in reality our brain uses neuroception to make snap decisions up to ten seconds before we've even...
10 Surprising Signs of Childhood Emotional Neglect
When looking for signs of childhood abuse, for many people, thoughts of a parent physically hurting or neglecting their child might come to mind. Physical harm is an important facet of child abuse to recognize. There is another type of abuse that’s covert and often...
Free Empath Test If You’ve Ever Wondered, “Am I an Empath?”
What Is an Empath? Empathy is the ability of a person to put themselves in someone else's position, and exists on a continuum. This empath test can help you discern where you fall. For those who are curious, there are two main components to empathy, with one being...
Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style: What You Need to Know
Once you find out about different attachment styles (secure, preoccupied, fearful avoidant, dismissive) it can feel like you've won the lottery. Finally, there's an explanation for the different 'vibes' you've been getting, especially if those vibes have been...
Fearful-Avoidant Attachment Style: What is It and What Does It Look Like in a Relationship?
Humans have developed into very complex creatures. One of those complexities has to do with try to form close relationships. Attachment theory states that the way humans connect with other people can be connected to early experiences with caregivers. Having a Fearful...