Supporting Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation for Those You Love

Guest blog post for Beyond Down Syndrome PART OF Beyond Down Sydrome’s RESOURCE 2024 SERIES: Expanding your options and your community Featuring guest blogger, educator,…

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How to Practice Listening to Your Body: 5 ways to tune in to your inner wisdom

by Anna Hayek for Mad Hatter Wellness Have you heard of the idea of a “full-body yes”? When making a decision, you ask if it…

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When should you start talking to your kid about sex?

by Anna Hayek for Mad Hatter Wellness If you are a parent, other adult family member or caregiver, it is likely that a child in…

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Dating, Disability and Disclosures

By Leah Bauman-Smith for Mad Hatter Wellness I recently came across a thread in my Long Covid Support group where people were asking when others…

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Non-Diet Resolutions for the New Year!

Diet culture is everywhere, especially this time of year. We are bombarded with ads claiming the secret to weight loss, or meal planning guides to…

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Give Me Healthy Boundaries for the Holidays

By Mad Hatter Wellness “The holidays are hard.”  That’s a recurrent refrain this time of year. One very common reason is that we have relationships…

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Relationship Changes and Endings

By Mad Hatter Wellness All relationships will eventually end.  That may feel odd or uncomfortable to think about, right? But truly, all relationships will eventually…

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Addressing Masturbation in the Classroom

Masturbation is a topic that we frequently facilitate a training, workshop or class about, and is frequently brought up by staff and caregivers as a…

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How to Support People with I/DD During Breakups

We teach a lot about how to have a healthy relationship. But how can we support the ending of relationships that have gotten unhealthy or…

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