Here’s where you can read about feelings: created by our brains and endocrine systems in response to the rest of our bodies, our memories, and our lives in the world. All kinds of emotions – happiness, sadness, worry, sympathy, affection, embarrassment, envy, love – can be in play with our experiences of ourselves, sex, sexuality and relationships. Gaining awareness, acceptance and understanding of our feelings can be central to living with them and navigating things like mental illness and emotional wellbeing.
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- Sam Wall
- Isabella Rotman
Going away to school can present some new sexual challenges. Here’s a get-you-started guide to grow on.
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- Andi MacDonald
How to tame those scary, growly feelings and use them for good.
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- Sam Wall
At Scarleteen, we’re all about making choices. But sometimes, we see users making choices that are, ultimately, the opposite of the self-care the need in that moment.
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- Mary Maxfield Brave
The same disorder that makes me feel so insecure, tense, vulnerable and outright petrified, also convinces me that it’s protecting me from harm. The disorder that terrorizes me persuades me to keep it active, as a security system, even though it is anything but.
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- Heather Corinna
Many people feel they’d like to reproduce, parent, or both in their lives. I wouldn’t say either of those things – that it’s “slutty” or “weird” – are true about these feelings and desires, whatever your age. I’d say the feelings you’re having are some of the most common human wants there are, and…
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- Heather Corinna
Some people struggle with strong pregnancy fears when there isn’t a pregnancy or hasn’t even been any real risk of pregnancy. What’s that really about, and how can you move forward?
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- Heather Corinna
Some helps for the care and keeping of you when you’re stressed, depressed, riddled with anxiety or fear or going through something wretched and trying to come out the other side.
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- Heather Corinna
Steelflower’s question continued: I’m deadly frightened to tell him because this is something I am really ashamed of. I trust him and know my secret would be safe with him, but I’m terrified that he’ll suddenly find me disgusting, or frightening, or that he’ll never be able to trust me again -…
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- Heather Corinna
I’m most interested in how you feel now about this, and separate from how you think everyone else would feel. Hopefully, if you haven’t identified your own feelings yet, my answer can give you some help doing that. So, values. Here’s the thing about values: they aren’t universal. They also aren’t…
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- Heather Corinna
Once, in a sleepless night of Netflix marathoning, someone said something on a show that stuck with me, despite the rest of the night being an unmemorable haze of insomnia. That was, “What’s so wonderful about being young is that there are no mistakes, only research.” As someone who works with young…
