We all struggle a bit sometimes with our relationships, our relationship with ourselves, and sex. Here’s a, research proven, way to feel a bit better. […]
How To Worry
Learning how to worry can be really valuable for us and the people / world around us. This guide is about why this is and how we might do it. […]
How To Be Sad
For a lot of reasons, sadness is hard to do. It’s sad to be sad, and who wants to be sad? Well actually it’s really important for you to learn how to be sad. It can really help you, everyone around you, and the world around you too. […]
How to be Angry
Anger has a very bad reputation but if you can learn how to be angry, it can really help you, everyone around you, and the world around you too. It can motivate you to protect yourself, to ask for what you need, and to help others. Just understand the difference between anger and aggression and don’t […]
Solidarity
Although it’s important to understand where we do and don’t have power and privilege, it’s also important to learn about solidarity. […]
Learning About Racism Resources
As the uprising in America, and solidarity protests around the world continue I thought I’d put together a few podcasts, books, TV shows, and documentaries about racism. As you know this website is aimed at everyone over 14s so I’ll try to make these appropriate for the same age group. There are so many and […]
Stress and the People Around Us
Stress isn’t just something we should deal with by ourselves. This is about stress and the people around us and how we can help them be less stressed. […]
The World, Stress, and You
The other day I wrote about how we can deal with our stress. However we can’t just rely on making ourselves less stressed. Now doing self-care is important, but it won’t change the stuff that affects our mental health the most. […]
How to Deal With Stress
I’m writing this during the coronavirus, which is stressful for all of us. This is on top of all the other stresses that happen to us in our daily lives, so this article is a ‘how to deal with stress’ for all times as well as these times. […]
How To Ask
The best way to learn how to ask is to think about consent and the other person. Do they want to be asked? What is it you’re asking and who are you asking for? […]
How To Love Yourself
Learning how to love yourself is a difficult but important thing to do. In this article we’ll look at different ways of doing it that might make it easier, together with some practical advice about how you can do it a bit more. […]
How to Choose a Chocolate Bar
It can hard working out what we want, particularly from sex. Read this about how to choose a chocolate bar. I it might help you have better sex. Note – this is all about choosing food, so if you are struggling with how you feel about food at the minute give this a miss. Also […]
The Video Guide to Being a Man
Here is the video guide to being a man. I also have a blog post about this but a lot of people prefer my boring voice for some weird reason. […]
#MeToo – Some Useful Things That Men Can Do
This ones for the menz, the blokes, the lads, the fellas, the mandems, the guys, the chaps etc. […]
What’s Your Gender?
If you’ve had some basic sex education you might have been taught that there are only two sexes and two genders and that men have to behave one way and women another. Wrong. It’s a lot more complicated than that. […]
What’s Your Sexuality?
There are lots of different kinds of sexualities out there but what’s your sexuality and how do you work it out? Well, like most things, it’s complicated. […]
How To Be A Man
A guide on how to be a man for International Men’s Day on November 19th (introducing the masculinity doughnut). […]
How to Support Someone
It can be really hard seeing someone having a hard time. We want to help, but how do we do the right thing when we try to support someone? […]
How To Do Self Care
Self care is about learning to look after ourselves in the same way we look after others. It’s important that you do it, for you and for others around you. […]
Freshers’ Week Pressure
Bits and bobs of advice for students dealing with the pressure to get laid during Freshers’ Week […]
Success and Failure (why they are both bad)
Thinking we are a failure isn’t great but it’s also not great to think we are a success either. […]
Self Esteem – How Do You Feel About You?
The Bish Guide to Self-Esteem. How what we think and do can affect how we feel about ourselves. […]
Big Up You
Think about your best bits and the bits you’d like to have. Allow it. It’s not arrogant to be positive – so big up you yeah? […]
A Guide to ‘No’
Why people should only have to say ‘no’ to you once. Why it’s not just about words. Tips on how to say it. […]
How to tell people big news about us
What we can learn from Tom Daley about how to tell people big news about us. […]
Sexualities
Queer, Straight, Gay, Asexual, Lesbian, Bisexual and Questioning: all explained simply. Also why some people love labels and others not and how people understand their own identity. […]
Sex and Gender
It’s not just male/female or man/woman. A beginners guide to sex and gender diversity. […]
Dealing With Nasty Messages Online
Dealing with the feelings from getting a nasty message and then working out what to do. […]
How to do online dating
How to make yourself look and sound great online. Also how to write a great first message that works. […]
Who To Talk To About Sex and How
Sometimes it’s hard to know who to talk to about sex, relationships and us. More about this here and where you can get help and advice. […]
‘Should I Make New Year Resolutions?’
You really don’t have to make New Year’s Resolutions, but here’s some advice about how to make them work if you do. […]
Disability and Sex
People with disabilities can have sex if they want to, but society makes it hard (not a euphemism). […]
Bomp Bomp Bomp Went My Butt
Fantastic guest post by Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe on her journey towards being more confident about her body […]
Story of a Trans Man: “My life just took a few different turns.”
A story about identity and gender from a Trans Man. I think it’s amazing. […]
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