Episode 39: It's a Small World - Let Go and Let Grow
You just never know who you’re closing yourself off to. That person could be experiencing the exact same thing you are and be an amazing support system.
Episode 37: Healthy Is Hot - Consent Is
SLU off-campus team of students provide sexual wellness resources and education in St. Louis.
Episode 36: Breaking Barriers for Connection
Our minds cannot tell the difference between what is real and what’s imagined. Often what we imagine is way worse.
Episode 35: St. Louis Department of Public Health - Free Sexual Wellness Resources
Free sexual health resources in St. Louis.
Episode 34 Part 2: ProjectAccept.org Social Support
When I realized I liked myself more around people who knew I had herpes than I did the people who didn’t, I had a choice to make.
Episode 34 Part 1: ProjectAccept.org "It's Just a Cold Sore"
It’s just a cold sore is a dangerous way of thinking. Your cold sore is someone else’s genital herpes and could be the source of their depression and suicide ideation.
Bonus Episode 005: What Happens When You Tell Someone You Have Herpes
Nobody cared when I told them I have herpes. The belief that you’ll “lose” anything after disclosing is of a scarcity mindset and potentially very damaging to ourselves.
Episode 33: Ask a Doctor About Herpes
Dr. Bruckel, Founder of Total Access Urgent Care talks to us about herpes.
Episode 32: Support is Closer Than You Think: Disclosing to a Friend
Utilize your support system.
Episode 30: Rich Mancuso - Author of Asking for a Friend
Rich shares his experience as a participant in a herpes vaccine trial.
Episode 29 Part 2: Taking Back Control - Expressive Kink
Kink can assist with healing past sexual trauma.
Episode 29 Part 1: Taking Back Control - First Time's a Charm
This episode makes us rethink herpes stigma. It only takes one time to be exposed to the virus.
Episode 28: Open Mirrors
Open, honest communication among partners should be the standard, not a bonus.
Episode 27: Divine Intuition - Explore it, Don't Ignore it
Stigma causes people who receive a positive herpes diagnosis in some cases to attempt suicide. With no way of measuring how often the attempt goes through, the best thing we can do is end the stigma as quickly as possible.
Episode 26: Alexandra Harbushka's Life With BOTH Herpes
Embrace yourself as more than the stigma placed on you by your herpes diagnosis.
Episode 25 Part 2: Eliminating Assumptions - A New Sex Life
Sex isn’t over just because of a herpes diagnosis, it evolves into something new!
Episode 25 Part 1: Eliminating Assumptions - Better Support
We need better support after an STI diagnosis.
Episode 24: Lose Yourself Inside Yourself to Find Yourself
We’re all misinformed about herpes until we get it or someone close to us tells us they have it.