The V-Word

Sometimes you just have to fight about it. As human animals, conflict is not only a natural outcome of partnerships and family units; it is an essential part of building unity. Our differences may make life more interesting, but learning to deal with them effectively and with love is a challenge for which we are often not well prepared.

A lot of us shield our hearts. We are so nervous about the potential for it to be broken by the loss of love, that we inadvertently keep it from use. Shielding our heart can become such a deep and prolonged habit that we often walk around with a shield we don’t even know we are wearing. 

An estimated 280,000 women will be diagnosed with new cases of invasive breast cancer this year, while there will be about 50,000 diagnoses of non-invasive breast cancer. The majority of these women will undergo some form of treatment to combat the disease.

Although I often wax poetic about the years of raising my children, I often think about what it would be like now, having them home in the midst of this pandemic and how challenging it would be to be the source of their primary caretaker without the support and distraction of school and sports. I can’t really imagine it. 

I have never been a fan of stories about dysphoric futures, but have watched their rise in media coverage in the last decades. From The Hunger Games series to the latest Blade Runner, we have all seen different versions of an AI-generated future in a dying ecosphere. It is a complicated story with long-standing racist, misogynistic, and capitalist threads weaving together to cement a direction that moves closer to the brink of the dystopia we sell as entertainment.

It is completely understandable to want to look your best in a photo, but at what point have we gone too far in manipulating the original image? It started with simply removing a pimple to now completely reconstructing our figures. 

The practice of mindfulness originated within Buddhist traditions, but has since been adapted into a healing modality for a wide range of illnesses. Impressive study results confirm the power of focusing our attention with intention on improving biological functioning on everything from cancer recovery to immune response to chronic pain.

S1:E16 | Sept. 17, 2020 | 40 min.Today on Dear Sex Podcast, renowned relationship therapist Stan Tatkin joins Wendy as they deep dive into romantic attachments and how our primal...

I’ve never really had a long-distance relationship. Sure, I was pen pals with a guy stationed in Iraq, but I’d never actually met the guy. Needless to say I am not skilled at the phone sex or sexting thing.