Intimacy During COVID-19 Written by: Katrina Clark, Youth Educator Note: This post was originally written for #WeekendWisdom, a collaboration with the Community Coalition for Healthy Youth in Tompkins County. While many are quick to associate intimacy with sex, or some form of physical exchange between romantic partners, intimacy is not exclusively physical. In fact, we…
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Parenting During COVID: Managing Stress & Trauma
Written by: Elicia Blodgett, Youth & Family Therapist at the Advocacy Center Covid-19 is adding new and significant stressors to our lives: job insecurity, fear of falling ill, social isolation. For parents, there is the additional stress of having children at home 24/7, bored or anxious, and more than likely acting out or at least…
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Written by: Kristi Taylor, Education Director As the Coronavirus has spread and caused tremendous impacts on us as individuals and collectively it has been inspiring to see the good in the world. People coming together and asking how they can help. People sewing masks for perfect strangers. Tiny Libraries being turned into Tiny Food Pantries…
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