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6 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Social Media Use
Apps are made to keep us consuming, so it’s easy to get sucked in and lost in the algorithm. That is why it is important to check in with yourself to make sure your social media use feels good to you. Here are six questions you can ask yourself when assessing your relationship with social media.
Navigating Non-Monogamy When Conflicting Desires Arise
With intentional effort, conflicting desires within non-monogamous relationships can be navigated. Here are our tips on how to navigate non-monogamy when desires and interests are different.
In Memoriam: Former G&STC Therapist Brett Wagner
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former G&STC therapist Brett Wagner.
Check out Director Jesse Kahn talking Good Housekeeping About the Best Sex Toys for Couples to Spice Things Up in the Bedroom.
There are a lot of reasons that people in a relationship may want to try sex toys together! Check out Director Jesse Kahn talking with Luisa Colón at Good Housekeeping about using toys to spice up your partnered sex life.
Communication Power Hour
A power hour is a designated time for you and another person (or group of people) to get together and check in with one another. Inspired by more traditional relationship check-in exercises, the power hour is also meant to extend to roommates, friendships, and other types of interpersonal relationships you have in your life.
Check out G&STC’s Therapist Jae Majors Talking With Healthline About Living With an HIV Positive Family Member
Check out G&STC Therapist Jae Majors talking with Gabrielle Kassel at Healthline about living with an HIV positive family member.
Trans Survival Mode
For those of us struggling to combat the thoughts and feelings of survival mode, we must also ask the question: is there more to life than this? It is one thing to survive, but to thrive, is an entirely different story. Choosing to engage in your survival mode can be an act of reestablishing your natural equilibrium and an act of coming home to yourself. Here are some ways to get started.
Check out Director Jesse Kahn Talking With HuffPost About Masturbating Without Porn
Check out Director Jesse Kahn talking with Brittany Wong at HuffPost UK about the power of fantasies while masturbating.
Good Sex Is Learned: The Cultural Myth of Innate Sex Skills
The cultural myth of innate sex skills is limiting and discourages people from seeking new knowledge and pleasure–and ironically doesn’t give us the opportunity to have the best (or most pleasurable) sex we can have. But, as adults, we can empower ourselves to learn new information about sex, ourselves, and our partners.
G&STC Director Talks with Brittany Wong at HuffPost about Celebrating 'Chosen Moms' on Mother’s Day
G&STC Director Talks with Brittany Wong at HuffPost about Celebrating 'Chosen Moms' on Mother’s Day.
G&STC Director Talks with Gabrielle Kassel About Why Teenagers Having Sex isn’t Inherently Bad or Harmful
Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Gabrielle Kassel at Healthline about why it’s not always bad or harmful for teens to be sexually active.
G&STC Director Jesse Kahn Talks with Kelsey Borresen at HuffPost About Phrases Couples Therapists Never (Or Rarely) Say To Their Partners
Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Kelsey Borresen at HuffPost about phrases they try to avoid in their own relationships.
“Failed” Woman: The Unattainable Gender Ideal
Anyone who has once considered themself to be a woman or is currently a woman could tell you that everyone seems to have a specific idea of who or what a woman is and should be. However, in reality, in as many ways as there are different ideals of what a woman should be, there are also a million and a half ways we’re told we “fail” at being a woman.
G&STC Director Jesse Kahn Talks with Kelsey Borresen at HuffPost About Sex Questions You Probably Haven't Asked Your Partner
Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Kelsey Borresen at HuffPost about some sex questions you probably haven't asked your partner, but should.
Springtime Growth & Transformation
Springtime invites us to have patience with ourselves during these challenging moments, and shows us that just as flowers will bloom after an unexpected cold front or night of frost, we too can blossom after unexpected obstacles and challenges.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
If you’ve experienced complex trauma, it’s common to gravitate toward one or two of the survival strategies in your overall behavior and while forming your worldview. These strategies were likely developed in order to navigate and survive the lack of love, abuse, neglect, and other childhood pain that you did not have control over.
Exploring Solo Kink
There are many ways to explore kink on your own, they can include masturbation but don’t always. Ask yourself how you want to feel and what you want to experience before starting any new form of kink play.
Tips for Healing from Queer Impostor Syndrome
While there are infinite ways to be queer, and we hope that our queer communities would be places to celebrate all of those identities, in reality it’s not always so. Straight trans people or bisexual people with partners of other genders, or nonbinary people who aren’t quite sure how they relate to other queer identities, among others may all be vulnerable to experiencing this queer imposter syndrome. So what can we do about it?