How can we leave room in our teaching for wonder, I wonder? This month I have been thinking about the meaning of liberation. We often talk about trauma-informed sex education, and that’s incredibly important. While educating we need to understand oppressions, both personally and for various identities, or we may do harm. But how often do we speak of the incredible opening that happens in sex education on a regular
I’m re-reading old journals. It was a time in my life when I was studying sexuality in San Francisco, meeting new people every day, expanding concepts, and learning new language. It was a time of great love and joy for me, as well as an enormous struggle to have a child that never came to fruition. My poet’s heart loved the city. I walked the streets of the Marina, the
I began my career at age 19, and moved from clinical assistant to prevention specialist to health educator over a few years. As such, I am often guided by these roots and by the wisdom of the phrase “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Like you, I am uncertain what the next few years will look like. They could be very different, or they may look
Well, the results are in from yet another study that show—yes, you guessed it—touch is good. (Packhesier, et.al. 2024). As it turns out, touch is good for our physical health whether we are touched by a human or an object (go get your vibes!), but mental health is more greatly impacted by human touch.For most of us, the more often we are touched, the better we feel. Duration of touch
A Sexual Attitude Reassessment is a workshop that introduces you to a variety of sexual behaviors, orientations and identities. It's purpose is to investigate our own attitudes, positive and negative biases, and reactions for self-knowledge as well as professional conduct. SAR is always taught live, either streaming or in person. By examining our attitudes, values, and emotions, we can be better equipped as educators, counselors, clinicians and therapists to serve
I was in my third trimester of a respected Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program when a classmate of mine fired the question to the director of our division. “Where’s our sex class?” she asked. The answer was nowhere. We didn’t have one. We could take it as an elective, we were told. To do this, we had to compete with the division of counseling psychology for spots in the