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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Starting Your Therapeutic Journey as a Queer Person

From beginning to search for a therapist to beginning your work with a therapist, below are some tips from someone on the other side of the therapeutic relationship on finding a therapist you love and ensuring sessions prioritize your needs and growth.

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How Do I make Queer Community?

For many of us across the Queer community, the act of finding community isn’t always that easy. Unlike some other marginalized communities, Queer people are not often born into community; instead, it is something we must seek out. So where do we start?

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