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Eating disorders impact people of all backgrounds and go beyond food to include body image, trauma, and mental health. Explore books and podcasts that support healing, recovery, and understanding.

Desire is one of the earliest stigmas we ever encounter. When we are children lessons about impulse control and self-discipline are taught by well-intentioned adults who want to teach us life skills needed to equip us as “functional” adults in society.

More than ever, crisis right now may feel ubiquitous. Every day may bring another news report of a tragedy somewhere in the world, a policy that will hurt you or those you love, or a foreboding sign for the future of where our country — or world — is headed. If this is how you feel, you aren’t alone.

When the historic tornado struck St. Louis on May 16th of this year, I was in New Orleans at my best friend’s graduation. Due to a miscommunication, I missed the moment he’d walked across. Then I found myself suddenly invited at the last minute to a dinner party hosted by wealthy relatives, where I felt noticeably underdressed. I was trying hard to make up for all the ways I felt I couldn’t fully show up on his big day.

A resource guide for self-identified LGBTQIA+ safe, affirming, and inclusive services in St. Louis, MO.

Struggling with body image is often inherited from family and society. Explore books and podcasts that support healing your relationship with your body.

Meet Jessica, the warm and welcoming first point of contact at Healing Exchange. With a background in healthcare administration and a passion for supporting others, Jessica plays a key role in creating a smooth, compassionate experience for every client -- from the first phone call to scheduling and beyond.

Grab our favorite resources that help relationships thrive! Relationships are a key part of the human experience and can encompass a variety of dynamics. From friendship to family to romantic and sexual connections, relationships are an essential but often challenging part of our the human experience.

You might feel like you’re constantly trying to be someone you’re not – shrinking, shapeshifting, and stretching yourself to fit into boxes that were never meant for you.

At the core, most of us want to be understood. So when there’s hurt, frustration, or unmet needs to express, there’s pressure to say it just right. The goal becomes about controlling the outcome: ensuring the other person won’t get defensive, that we won’t feel rejected, and that everything will neatly resolve itself. That’s a heavy load for one conversation to carry.

If you're carrying stories that feel heavy, fragmented, or unspoken, I invite you into a space where we can hold them together—with tenderness, curiosity, and the belief that healing is possible.

Claiming your identity in a world shaped by heteronormativity and systemic oppression takes courage. These resources are here to support and affirm your journey.

Strengthen your relationship with attachment-based communication—create emotional safety, deepen connection, and foster trust. Learn how!

Ethical non-monogamy is a diverse, intentional way of relating that invites honesty, communication, and deep self-awareness—these resources offer guidance for wherever you are on the journey.

Unlearning harmful social narratives is an ongoing process—these resources offer insight, challenge assumptions, and support your journey toward liberation and self-understanding.

Sexuality is a powerful and personal part of who we are—these resources offer support, insight, and tools for healing, exploring, and enjoying your sexual self on your own terms.

Take a look at a few books, podcasts and course we might recommend when beginning the trauma healing journey.

We wrap up the season with an extra packed episode filled with extra good content as we discuss trauma and mindfulness.

Forgiveness can be a very complex and difficult process to navigate, so we spent some time this week discussing what forgiveness looks like.

This week we are secure in knowing that our conversation today will be illuminating.