I was raped when I was a teenager. My body was changing and growing, then I had to add being raped to the mixture of growing up. I already suffered with “body love” issues and the changes I was ...

In high school, I didn’t date at all. I was super into school and getting into a good college. Or at least, that’s the excuse I would give for my lack of dating experience. Fast forward to now: I’m in ...

One of the hardest life lessons we must learn is how to move on. If you’re lucky, you will have a supportive group of friends who not-so-covertly suggest that you dump your boyfriend, especially if he ...

Loving yourself sounds simple, but for many of us, knowing where to start is a mystery. The truth is, you may not have been taught how to love yourself. In fact, you may have been taught the opposite ...

What comes to mind when you think of self-love? Do you consider yourself someone who practices self-love, and if so, what does that look like? I believe it’s an incredibly important concept, and I ...

Recently, my father has been overly interested in my dating life. Nowadays, it seems not even one conversation can go by without him asking if I’m seeing anyone. I can always hear the disappointment ...

When it comes to love, it seems we often focus on finding it in a romantic sense. Many yearn to find “the one,” and sometimes, in that journey, we forget to focus on self-love. It can be a journey to ...

Being in love may be one of the most intense and impactful experiences. People in love admit to spending about 85 percent of their time thinking about the object of their affection 1. This is, of ...