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Breakup guilt is real — Here’s how to finally heal

Ending a relationship you chose can still leave you emotionally wrecked — and that's more common than you think. Why Ending a Relationship Can Still Break You Walking away from someone you care about is never clean. Even when you know — deep in your gut — that a relationship has run its course, the…

ByDempsey May AyucoJune 9, 20260Comments

Mind

Navigating mental health care as a Black American takes more than courage

From licensure to cultural competency, finding a therapist who meets your needs requires knowing exactly what to look for and why it matters. Finding quality mental health care is difficult for anyone. For Black Americans, the obstacles go deeper, shaped by a long history of exclusion, misdiagnosis and institutional distrust that does not simply…

ByGesi LloydMay 31, 20260Comments

Books

7 mental health books by Black authors every reader should know about

7 essential mental health books by Black authors worth reading this month Subtitle: These seven titles — from a novel about a daughter's psychotic break to Michelle Obama's latest — make an honest case for why Black mental health deserves its own shelf. Mental Health Awareness Month arrives every May carrying good intentions and, often,…

ByGesi LloydMay 27, 20260Comments

Relationships

What healthy couples are doing differently between the sheets in 2026

How the boldest relationships are rewriting the rulebook on intimacy, wellness, and real connection The conversation around sexual health has had a full glow-up. What was once whispered behind closed doors — or avoided altogether — is now being handled with the kind of radical honesty that healthy couples are leaning into hard in 2026.…

ByDempsey May AyucoMay 11, 20260Comments

Wellness

A psychologist’s vital guide to Black mental health

A podcast appearance on The Joe Budden Network set off a wider discussion earlier this year when speaker Cheyenne Bryant made claims about mental health that left many listeners with questions. The moment was uncomfortable but it was also clarifying. It revealed just how much confusion still exists around who is actually qualified to provide…

ByDorcas OnasaMay 9, 20260Comments

Dating

Understanding retroactive jealousy and why it is so hard to shake

A fixation on who your partner loved before you is more common than most people admit, and more telling about the person feeling it than the one being questioned. A partner mentions an ex, briefly, in passing. The conversation moves on. But for some people, that moment does not end. It replays. It expands.…

ByGesi LloydMay 8, 20260Comments

Health

Seasonal depression is beatable — Here are 8 ways to fight back

Science finally has the answers — and they are more powerful than you think Every fall, like clockwork, the darkness arrives — and for roughly 10 million Americans, it brings far more than a chill in the air. Seasonal affective disorder, the clinically recognized form of depression tied to dwindling daylight, does not simply make…

ByDempsey May AyucoMay 4, 20260Comments

Relationships

Why you obsessively stalk your partner’s ex and how to stop

You probably wouldn't want anyone seeing your full browsing history especially the part where you spent an hour going through your partner's ex's Instagram. It started innocently enough, maybe a quick LinkedIn search. But before long, you were several years deep into their profile, studying photos and making comparisons you didn't even mean to make.…

ByDorcas OnasaMay 2, 20260Comments

Advice

Therapist not working for you? Here is how to know when to move on

Therapy has steadily moved from the margins to the mainstream of American wellness culture, and nowhere has that shift been more pronounced than in Black communities, where a growing number of people are actively dismantling the stigma that once kept mental health care out of reach. For many, finding a therapist represents a significant act…

ByGesi LloydApril 26, 20260Comments

Health

Doja Cat finally breaks silence on her most painful secret

The Grammy-winning artist opens up about her years-long battle with Borderline Personality Disorder — and what healing has really looked like For years, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini — the artist the world knows as Doja Cat — has performed behind a curtain of reinvention, trading one persona for another with seemingly effortless flair. But in…

ByDempsey May AyucoApril 9, 20260Comments

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