Tag: mental health

Learning to Heal from Heartbreak in Blindsided, a Time Travel Novel About Lessons from Your Past Self

By Stephanie Carey
Photos by Travis Young

What if you could sit down with your younger self? What would you say? What warnings would you give? After an agonizing break-up, I found myself wishing I could do just that—give myself all the wisdom I learned the hard way. Since time travel gummies don’t exist, I did the next best thing: I wrote a novel about it. 

Writing this story was a personal journey of distraction and healing after a rough breakup. Yes, I, a 46-year-old woman who has been married and divorced twice, found myself boo-hooing over a man I wasn’t even married to. I did not have “monumental heartbreak” on my 2024 BINGO card, but that’s where I found myself in March of last year. I honestly dismissed the validity of “just dating” breakups, thinking I had my battle scars from two divorces. Nothing could touch me. 

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We’re launching a Kansas City resource guide to reproductive health services, crisis care, LGBTQ+ organizations, & other community programs

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By The Catcall Team

In the days since Donald Trump has returned to the Oval Office, we have unequivocally witnessed Elon Musk’s violent inauguration salute, pardons for roughly 1600 insurrectionists from the January 6th, 2021 riot, the immediate freeze on health organizations’ public communications, rollbacks on decades-old policies meant to create equity, and other treacherous fuckery. The never-ending onslaught of dread with each passing day since January 20th feels intentionally harmful to our diverse communities that actually make America great. As our newest administration attempts to control us with fear, we respond with the only logical response: community. 

That’s why Catcall has created a guide for accessible and affordable national and Kansas City-area community resources. Our team has been working on organizing resources for a while, but it felt important now more than ever to get this list up ASAP as we face the next four years. This guide will grow with us as we gain more information about the changing political climate. We also welcome our community of readers to inform us if we are missing any pertinent services in the Kansas City metro and beyond our state lines, any of which can be submitted to our Resource Guide Submission form. By coming together to offer support, information, and resources we can create solidarity through conscious actions and combat the isolation this presidency is attempting to foster. 

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Let’s Take a Look Back at Catcall’s 2023

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By The Catcall Team

As we set our hopes and goals for a new year, looking back at how far we came over the last year is a must. At Catcall, we took a walk down memory lane and picked out our favorite stories from 2023. This year, we catcalled systemic issues, elevated diverse creators and entrepreneurs, hosted our first public event, and shared all of our best tips for taking care of your mental health and fostering a healthy—and pleasurable—sex life. Take a look!

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How Lewis Capaldi Made Me Feel Less Alone in My Mental Health Journey

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By Erin Gabriel

My sister has the biggest crush on Lewis Capaldi, the Scottish singer-songwriter who first gained attention in 2017 with his debut single and viral hit Bruises. If you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know who he is (I am speaking to my 30-something millennial cousins who had no idea who he was) here is a photo for reference:

Sex icon, amiright? At this point, my sister would quote the viral TikTok sound, “That’s mine. I’ma stick beside him.” Anywho, I regress…

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Screaming your way to a spiritual awakening

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By Erin Gabriel

Candice Wells screams for a living.

No, we’re not talking about screamo music. We’re talking about breathwork. As the owner and facilitator of Screamwerk in Denver, Colo., Candice is a breathwork facilitator, energy worker, yoga teacher, and entrepreneur who guides individuals to scream their way to a spiritual awakening.

When most people think of breathwork, yoga breathing patterns to calm the nervous system or active breathing techniques like what you see on apps like Calm or HeadSpace may come to mind. But Screamwerk utilizes a form of psychedelic or somatic breathwork, which is more focused on the body. 

“As I taught breathwork classes, I recognized that a primal scream timed at an integral moment of the practice helped to fully release pent-up feelings,” Candice says.

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