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A Sex Toy Gift Guide for You & Your Partner
‘Tis the season to reward the nicest lovers with something naughty. Even though the holiday season is overwhelmingly SFW — with family-friendly gifts for everyone on your list abound — there are some folks in your life who may want a gift that’s a bit more sexual and sensual. Especially during a holiday season heading into a winter where many of us might be hauled up at home (yet again), you can make those lazy, cold nights a whole lot shek
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Understanding LGBTQ Terminology
One of our core missions at HealthyWomen is to educate, and we know there can be a lot of confusion about the words or phrases to use when it comes to discussing LGBTQ-related topics. In order to foster respectful, inclusive conversation, we want to give our readers some guidance on the meaning of the related terms. We are pleased that the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ advocacy group, has allowed us to reprint its glossary. Ally – A term used Healthy
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HIV Prevention Pill PrEP Is Now Free Under Most Insurance Plans – but the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Puts This Benefit at Risk
December 1 is World AIDS Day By Paul Shafer, Boston University and Kristefer Stojanovski, Tulane University Since the start of the HIV epidemic in 1981, over 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to AIDS. Being infected used to be a death sentence. But now, 40 years later, the U.S. is on the precipice of eradicating HIV. The U.S. Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative provides a road map to reduce new HIV infections by 90% by 2030. A key preventive strategy Healthy
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Can You Hear Me and Other People With Disabilities?
December 3 is the International Day of Persons With Disabilities. On this year’s International Day of Persons With Disabilities, I look back on a pivotal day in my childhood that transformed how I saw myself and my cerebral palsy. Saturdays were special. As a kid growing up in the suburbs of New York, Saturdays meant Burger King outings with my grandparents, a great big slice of trademarked Hershey’s chocolate pie for me and piping hot oatmeal for them. And we Healthy
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Mental Health Crisis Diversion Center In Works In Alabama
WellStone Behavioral Health (Huntsville, Ala.) is planning a new mental health crisis diversion center in Huntstville, according to an article in waaytv.com. The 25,000-square-foot facility will be situated adjacent to a current WellStone facility and will be designed to treat up to 42 patients. Construction is slated for completion by spring 2022. healthcare
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My Abortion Was One of the Best Parenting Decisions I’ve Ever Made
Editor’s note: The day Texas’ extremely restrictive anti-abortion law (SB 8) went into effect, reproductive healthcare providers, advocates and patients around the United States continued doing the work they always do: They educated (unpacking the various ways the bill infringes on reproductive freedoms for pregnant people in Texas, particularly for low-income people of color), they organized (showing folks where to put their money and their energy to do the most good) and many of them did the emotional heavy-lifting of shek
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Rady Children’s Adds New Intervention Center In San Diego
The Dickinson Image-Guided Intervention Center has opened at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. The $24 million comprehensive pediatric intervention center includes specialized MRI imaging technology and catheterization and magnetic resonance imaging suites. healthcare
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Long Time Coming
If you joined us in Cleveland in October for the 2021 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference, you may have experienced the same surreal feeling that I did. After planning, canceling, and then planning again, we finally made it across the finish line. Suddenly, there we were—in person. Even with masks, distancing, and fist bumps, being together felt, well, normal. We recognized one another despite only seeing eyes and hair. We caught up on the professional and personal that we’d missed healthcare
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Learning To Forgive: 7 Steps Of Forgiveness
To forgive and forget is what we all have learned in school. But is it really easy to forgive someone so quickly? And how do you manage to forget about the pain and suffering that we have to bear? I think to Forgive is to heal. Sometimes holding on to something is much more painful than letting go. We should choose to let go of those hurtful feelings that we hold tight in our hearts. It’s better to forgive and calmsage
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Having Unwanted Thoughts? Learn What Are They And How To Stop Intrusive Thoughts
You’re on vacation and you finally have the time to yourself. While relaxing and drinking a hot cup of tea, your mind conjures up unwanted and intrusive thoughts… how would you feel? Distressed or anxious, right? This is what intrusive thoughts do to you. These unwanted thoughts are the ones that will stick in your mind and will make you dwell on things you didn’t want to. And while intrusive thoughts are not dangerous, they can cause anxiety and feelings calmsage
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How should we navigate difficult relationships at work?
Could applying a psychological framework to your work relationships help you to navigate difficult dynamics? Our expert columnist Andy Gill dives into common workplace woes We spend about a third of our lives at work, and wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was a positive experience? Sadly, this is not always the case, and I meet many clients for whom work is a source of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness. The quality of the working relationship with a manager has a happi
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When Fathers Unlearn Toxic Masculinity, It Helps the Whole Family
Welcome to Better Sex With Dr. Lexx, a monthly column where sex therapist, educator and consultant Dr. Lexx Brown-James shares expertise, advice and wisdom about sex, relationships and more. Approaching education about sex as a life-long endeavor — “from womb to tomb” — Dr. Lexx (AKA The #CouplesClinician) is your guide to the shame-free, medically accurate, inclusive and comprehensive conversations for you, your partner and your whole family. We are coming to the end of Movember — which is a time to remind shek