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Wildflower by Mia Doring She marched through the park on her way home from the train station in the orange Nike runners she wore for commuting, her office shoes tucked side by side under her desk. The park was really just a gravel path…

Violence against women is an area that is supported and tolerated in our culture in various ways - tiny reportage rates, even tinier conviction rates, stereotyping of both victim and perpetrator, massive difficulties in obtaining barring…

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness." - Stephen Covey I studied Choice Theory during my Psychotherapy…

I'm watching a “casting couch” porn video called “Latina Painal.” FYI 'painal' = painful anal. It's a massive genre (23,741 results in free-to-access Porntube). The casting couch thing is also a huge genre. There are 9,736 casting…

We need to talk about porn. We need to have a huge, comprehensive, massive undertaking of a conversation on the complex, contentious, divisive thing that is porn. What is not needed is relegating porn to something between children and their…

Dear Niamh, I am not one for writing open letters to journalists but here I am in reference to your piece “Count the shades of grey between seduction and violation.” 1. First, make sure you know the definitions of what you are talking…

 “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation” - Audre Lorde Christmas can be a difficult or even excruciating time for many people, and unfortunately we cannot avoid it. It's always there, potentially reminding…

When I was doing therapist training in the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, we looked at a number of thought intervention exercises to experiment with when an unhelpful thought is anchoring you in a place of self loathing, or self criticism or…

Do you ever think about what you really need to be fully the person you are, and to what extent you need those things? The things you need to be in place in order to be you, all of you, fully you. I need my dog and my friends and my work.…

I am 12 years old buying sweets in the local newsagent with my two friends. A man, older, maybe 50, in the queue behind us grazes his hand off my back and leaves it there with gentle pressure. Like it's an accident but too certain of itself…