This is why I am in therapy 😅

Therapist: You have poor boundaries between your work life and your home life.

Me, answering a student email while in therapy: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

It is like this person refuses to understand that being “outside” does not prevent people from hearing the music he is playing. It is incredible. He is surprised and confused every time.

About once per month, our downstairs neighbor, who must be about 20-30 years our senior, absolutely BLASTS music from his balcony. He has great taste, so we just treat it as a mini concert. However, every time someone asks him to turn down the music, he responds, incredulously, “But I’m outside?”

Under normal circumstances, I try to be as available as possible for students. With 400 of them, I receive 10-20 emails per day, and they come in at all hours of the day. It is exhausting. Better for my mental health to just have my email on my computer!

Exchange between my husband and me, in which I tell him that my work email is no longer on my phone. He encourages me to delete the whole course.

No one is more ready for this semester to be over than my husband 😂

At this point in my life, I often feel strange discussing my history of anorexia. It feels like a fairly insignificant part of who I am now. But I share because I hope that someone who is struggling may see my posts and know that there is hope for full, beautiful recovery. And that it is worth it.

The person who had to leave college to eat 3+ supervised meals per day feels like a stranger to me most days. At times, she is a distant friend. Researchers discuss a middle place of recovery & many people feel as though they never fully recover from their conditions. I feel totally free of mine.

I was placed on medical leave from my masters in 2016 because I was too sick to stay in school. It was framed as a choice, but I knew even then that I had little say in the matter. To return to the same university as a professor that I had to leave as a student ten years later is a bit poetic.

Ten years ago today, I stepped into an eating disorder treatment center for the first time. At the time, I didn’t care if I lived to be 30, and now at 31, I am happier than I ever let myself imagine I could be back then. My life is so rich and full of love, friendship, and purpose. I am so grateful.

Thank you! I will pass this information along to my friend!!

Hello! Does anyone in my network have expertise on Puerto Rico (esp. historical expertise on Puerto Rican culture circa 1959)? My friend is a producer and is putting on a musical about a family in this time period.

Please share in your networks!

I am married to a person who feels the same way I do 🫡

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Yes, I see that as my role!! I want to be the best aunt anyone has ever seen. I want to babysit when parents need a night off. I will bring soup when your family is sick. I will host birthday parties at my house. Etc!!!!

Yes, that too! 😅

There is a common assumption that people who are childfree by choice hate children. At least in my case, I love children, and that’s why I don’t want to be a mother. Being a parent is an incredibly difficult job, and I think children deserve better than what I can offer. It’s not children — it’s me!

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

Update your slides: New best example of “glass cliff” just dropped.

Nothing encourages me to write a manuscript quite like a deadline for a different, more important manuscript.

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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TIA is wonderful because it provides a different perspective on sexuality and links with biology. Very fun and interesting to think about these topics through this lens. All great!

YCBHBS is one of my favorite books ever. It is like if you took my Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior course and distilled down its most important messages. Love the tone and the information shared. BBE is a great counter to the traditional script young people are told about heterosexual dating.

Three wonderful books about sexuality and relationships have come out in the last few months, and I wanted to share them here:

1. You Could Be Having Better Sex - Dr. Nicole McNichols

2. Bonded by Evolution - Dr. Paul Eastwick (note: title is misleading)

3. The Intimate Animal - Dr. Justin Garcia

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New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵
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The thank you email makes it all worth it.

Yes! I love running. I am just not fast at it 😅 but it’s great exercise and has been helpful for managing my anxiety.

Oh yes I love running! I have run 6 half marathons so far. This is actually an 11 miler. It will be fun no matter what!