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A collage on gay identity in the office of Joy Turek, the psychology chairwoman at Antioch, made by students in a class Dr. Turek teaches.CreditKendrick Brinson for The New York Times By Casey Schwartz , NY Times July 13th, 2016 CULVER CITY, Calif. — “Are we ready to expose ourselves?” J. D. Fuller asked, halfway through the graduate-level psychology class she teaches on Tuesday nights at Antioch University. Ms. Fuller’s students needed no further prompting. They began shedding layers, revealing what they’d been wearing underneath: T-shirts on which they had scrawled names, labels, and insults in Magic Marker ink. Around the room, the collection was various: “Sissy,” “AIDS,” “pedophile,” “pervert,” “fag,” “str8t-acting,” “socialite,” “fat,” “bland,” “emotionally white,” “immigrant,” “stupid American.” Welcome to L.G.B.T. Multicultural Counseling and Mental Health, one of the required classes in Antioch’s specialized course of training. The students, ranging in age from 20-

      #EarthWindandFire #September #The21stnightofSeptember Do you remember The 21st night of September? Love was changin' the minds of pretenders While chasin' the clouds away Our hearts were ringin' In the key that our souls were singin' As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away, oh, yeah

Song of the South, Disney’s 1946 live-action/animation hybrid, won’t be appearing on the company’s new streaming app. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo #Disney #Racism #SongoftheSouth For all the uncertainty surrounding the streaming wars – even for a dominant company like Netflix, which is still hemorrhaging billions of dollars – there’s a reason to believe that Disney+ is a safe bet. Even if every one of its original launch titles landed with a thud, Disney just needed to crack open the vault and allow viewers to dive, Scrooge McDuck-like, into its riches: 80 years of peerless animation, from early classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi to renaissance titles like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast to recent hits like Frozen and Moana. And that’s to say nothing of Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and a mule who kicks 100-yard field goals. Yet The Walt Disney Company has a longstanding Walt Disney problem, and for Disney+, the answer so far has been to

#Stress #Anxiety  Everyone experiences stress and anxiety from time to time. Most often, stress occurs when you encounter a frustrating situation or are faced with a dilemma. Social pressures, heavy workloads and financial instabilities also cause stress which can reduce productivity, cause health problems or lead to chronic symptoms of anxiety or depression. I sat down with Ayesha Khan, a certified yoga therapist who has spent multiple years coaching people in the healing tradition of classical yoga and meditation. Here’s what she had to say: Stress attacks your hope, willpower and makes you vulnerable. You get annoyed easily and react to petty issues. You may suffer mood swings and your behavior becomes unpredictable. It might seem difficult or impossible to escape from stress, but eventually, you can fight back. Try these simple stress relieving techniques. 1. Exercise Exercise has unlimited benefits for human body and fighting stress is one of them. Research has shown th

Source: Unsplash #self-criticism  #self-judgment  People who are too hard on themselves typically see their self-criticism as justified.  Perfectionists are especially vulnerable to this.  To give yourself a reality check, read through these seven types of excessively negative self-judgment and note which you can relate to. 1.  You psychologically beat yourself up over mistakes that have minimal consequences. The vast majority of the time when we make mistakes they're small ones that have no or minimal consequences.  For example, you're usually vigilant about checking sell-by dates but one time you don't, and you end up buying a huge tub of yogurt that's expiring the day you buy it.  Or, you usually choose fruit carefully but you manage to pick three rotten avocados in a row.   Tip: Try giving yourself a threshold for mistakes to cut yourself some slack on.  For example, mistakes that waste under $5 or under 10 minutes.  (This is a strategy of creating rule

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#AfricanAmerican #BellHooks #Love #Respect  #WhereWeStand  #ClassMatters  "Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks A writer, teacher and cultural critic, bell hooks is best known for her work examining systems of domination, especially racism and patriarchy, and how they may be overcome. She has published more than twenty books, including  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Killing Rage: Ending Racism , and  Where We Stand: Class Matters . hooks says that uncovering and naming the forms of oppression in our society is an extension of her lifelong curiosity about love and her desire to see love manifested. “Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,” she once wrote in the Buddhist magazine   Shambhala Sun . “When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think

#HealthyRelationship #Therapy #LMFT Posted Sep 25, 2020 Why do we repeat the same mistakes in our relationships over and over? Consider this: It has been a crazy Friday at the office unsuccessfully trying to get a new program to work on your computer. After going at it yourself (without success), you finally turn to the company’s techies. They can’t figure it out either. The program works fine on every other computer in the place but yours. It’s the end of the day and you finally give up on it. You head out and to your car and head home. You turn on the radio. The tunes annoy you, and you quickly turn it off. Your thoughts start reeling: “The software stinks, work stinks… life stinks.” Your stress intensifies. The night before, you and your partner had planned for a cozy dinner at your favorite restaurant. Your partner now greets you at home in a mellow upbeat mood, ready to go. You had both looked forward to the night out. You still do. But you continue to dwell on the

#1-800-273-TALK-[8255] #NationalSuicidePreventionLifeline # Suicide Prevention # Dr. Tracey Marks   We tend to characterize suicidal thoughts in two ways. Active and passive. Active suicidal thinking is when you think through a plan. You may not actually make the plan, but you’re thinking about options in your head. But of course you can start to execute the plan.     S elf-harm can also be mistaken for suicidality. Sometimes it is the intention, but many times people will cut themselves to relieve tension for feel real. Some people may even take overdoses of pills as a way to get help, to show people they are hurting and need help. One thing you can do is develop a suicide safety plan. This is something that’s best done with the help of your doctor or therapist. But if you don’t have one, you can still think through this yourself. The safety plan is a list of coping strategies and sources of support that you can have in place to use when you feel suicidal. Here is a 6-step safety

#LosAngeles #SafeParking #Homelessness #SafeParkingProgram  #RVs  #Cars  In Los Angeles County, there are over 15,700 people living in their vehicles each night.  These vehicle dwellers represent over 25% of the population of people experiencing homelessness in LA County. Safe Parking programs are a safe and legal homelessness intervention to stabilize and connect to resources for people who are living in their vehicles. All program locations include access to a restroom facility and the security of a guard. Please begin the application by filling out the interest form. You can call / text  213-793-8493. In addition to providing a safe place to sleep, the Safe Parking program also provides access to services. "We have demonstrated our ability to provide these services and help connect families - not just with safe parking facilities for overnight parking but more importantly, connecting them to resources that are helping to facilitate that into housing," R

#Beauty  #FentyBeauty  #Rihanna  #WomenOfColor,  Rihanna’s new makeup line Fenty Beauty has been an instant success — and it’s not only popular because Rihanna’s name is attached to it. Fenty Beauty carries a wide range of foundations — 40 to be exact — which has the beauty industry shook.  Cosmetics and the beauty industry as a whole has a long history of creating products that did not match deeper-toned people of color.  There are a number of factors that lead to many mainstream beauty companies to having a narrow selection for people of color — and not all of those reasons are rooted in product development.  With Fenty Beauty, Rihanna is showing the industry that it’s worth investing money and time into creating nuanced products beyond the ranges of ivory, beige, and tan. Vox