Thinking it through with Latoya!

By Mindy Lawrence If your doctor tells you that you aren’t really sick, that it’s in your head, or if you’d just lose weight, you’d be...

By Mindy Lawrence As long as I can remember, I‘ve heard the phrase “locker room talk.” It’s supposedly the rough and tumble banter that...

By Mindy Lawrence Less than every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. The trauma from the event makes it...

By Mindy Lawrence Sexual consent is an important part of sexual relations. Getting and giving permission to have sex with someone, or...

Manipulative people harm others. We’ve all known one or more of these individuals. They take advantage of their victims to get what they...

By: Mindy Lawrence An emotional shutdown is the inability to connect with others on an emotional level. The detachment can be by choice...

Legal Information Institute at Cornell University refers to date rape as the phenomenon where the woman was forced to have sexual...

by Mindy Lawrence First Orlando Counseling in Orlando, Florida, defines five types of sexual abuse that exist -- verbal, covert, visual,...

There are around 463,634 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States. One in five women has...

Definition of "Gaslighting" and a discussion of how it is used as a weapon.

Learning about the concept of gaslighting!

Joyce Faulkner's books include "In the Shadow of Suribachi," "Windshift," "Vala's Bed," and "Garrison Avenue."

The young girl did everything to please her mother. She picked up around the house, took the clothes off the clothesline, and swept and...

by Joyce Faulkner At first it was just a vibration -- like a distant heartbeat, then the faint smell of smoke. Hedy opened her eyes....

“The act of betraying someone or something or the fact of being betrayed: violation of a person's trust or confidence, of a moral...

We all have a social and mental side. All of them together form our mental health. Mental health is important from the time we are born...