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A respected writer, speaker, researcher and mental health advocate, JoEllen Notte has done extensive work on the effects of depression on sexual function and relationship, creating created the first sex-positive online survey on the topic in 2014. JoEllen has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken on the award-winning [RedheadBedhead.com] (http://www.redheadbedhead.com) as well on [Glamour] (https://www.glamour.com/gallery/15-naughty-but-oh-so-nice-holiday-gift-ideas), …

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5 Songs Every ’80s Kid Loved That We Only Now Realize Had Very Adult Meanings

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I rocked out to these 80s songs between the ages of 3 and 8 — with the full encouragement of the adults around me (well, all songs except for one) — only to hear them again as an adult and say to myself, “Wait. What?!" So without further ado, let us embark on a tour of the confusion that 80s music lulled kids like me into. Back then, every 80s kid knew every word to the chorus but had no clue what the lyrics were really about.
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Kids Who Grew Up In The 90s Played These 4 Songs On Repeat But Totally Missed What They Meant

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When it comes to songs you listened to as a kid that you might have totally missed the meaning of, 90s R&B/Hip-Hop is the gift that keeps on giving. There is no end to the awesomeness going on. And thus, it was some of my favorite types of music to listen to as a kid growing up in the 90s. If you grew up in the 90s, chances are these songs were everywhere — on the radio, on burned CDs, basically playing in the background of your childhood.
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Every Sign I Ignored When I Stayed With The Wrong Therapist - All 7 Of Them

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For four years, from 2007 to 2011, I saw a therapist mostly-weekly with some periods of monthly visits when she thought I was “doing better." It became very clear to me in the months before my marriage ended and my father died (at the same time) that this woman was simply a bad therapist. At least for me. Looking back now, five years later, I remember nothing of value from our sessions, but I remember several hurtful and traumatic episodes.
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