Wellness & Self-Care
Ostomy Dating and Intimacy — A Psychologist’s Guide
Ostomy dating as a young adult raises real questions about disclosure, body image, and physical closeness. Clinical psychologists who specialize in chronic illness adjustment say the emotional barriers are common and very much workable. This guide covers when and how to disclose, how to rebuild body confidence after stoma surgery, and practical steps toward genuine intimate connection.
How Epilepsy Medication Affects Libido: A Neurologist’s Guide
Epilepsy medication and libido are more closely connected than most patients realize. Anticonvulsant drugs can alter hormone levels and dampen desire, yet this side effect is rarely discussed in neurology appointments. Here is what neurologists want you to know — and the questions they wish you would ask.
Surrogacy and Intimacy: A Reproductive Psychologist’s Guide
Surrogacy intimacy challenges affect more couples than you might expect. When conception involves a surrogate or donor, the emotional bond between partners often shifts in quiet, confusing ways. Reproductive psychologists explain why this disconnect is normal and offer gentle, practical approaches to rebuilding closeness during the first year of parenthood.
Sex After Bariatric Surgery: A Psychologist’s Guide
Sex after bariatric surgery is one of the most emotionally complex and least discussed aspects of weight loss recovery. Rapid body changes shift desire, sensation, and self-image in ways patients rarely expect. This psychologist-backed guide explores why intimacy feels different after surgery and offers gentle, practical ways to reconnect with your body and your partner.
Multiple Sclerosis and Intimacy: A Neurologist’s Guide
Multiple sclerosis intimacy challenges affect up to 70 percent of people with MS, altering sensation, desire, and energy. A neurologist explains how MS sensation changes actually work, why they do not mean the end of closeness, and what couples can explore together to rebuild connection with patience and creativity.
Intimacy After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Neuropsychologist’s Guide
Intimacy after traumatic brain injury changes in ways neither partner expects. Personality shifts, emotional unpredictability, and altered desire can leave couples feeling disconnected. Neuropsychologists explain why these changes are neurological, not personal, and offer practical strategies for rebuilding closeness, adapting to sensory changes, and maintaining connection through recovery.
Joint Replacement and Intimacy — A Rehab Specialist’s Guide
Joint replacement intimacy is a concern most patients carry silently into recovery. This expert-backed guide from orthopedic rehabilitation specialists covers safe timelines, comfortable positions, and practical strategies for rebuilding post-surgical physical closeness with your partner after hip or knee replacement surgery.
Healthy Sexuality for Teens: Building Self-Awareness Before Dating
Healthy sexuality for teens begins long before the first date. Adolescent psychologists explain how girls can build self-awareness around desire — learning to name it, trust it, and understand it — so they enter relationships from a grounded, boundaried place rather than confusion or shame.
Bladder Cancer Intimacy: A Urologic Oncologist’s Guide
Bladder cancer intimacy is among the most common yet least discussed concerns after cystectomy. This guide, shaped by urologic oncologists, addresses post-surgery sexuality, body image, and emotional closeness — offering honest answers and gentle steps for patients and partners navigating recovery together.
Premature Ovarian Insufficiency in Your 30s: What to Know
Premature ovarian insufficiency affects roughly one in a hundred women under forty, reshaping not just fertility but identity, desire, and self-image. Informed by reproductive endocrinologists, this guide explores what a POI diagnosis actually changes in your thirties — emotionally, physically, and relationally — and offers grounded ways to reclaim your sense of self.