RFC Blog

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). This subject can bring up a myriad of complex associations and emotions for people. In our work as therapists, we know that clients who’ve experienced sexual assault have immensely personal ways of processing both their experience of assault and their journey of healing.

Through reading, children can better understand themselves and those around them, fostering empathy and understanding for both themselves and others. Since April is Autism Acceptance Month, I wanted to highlight some children’s literature that celebrates neurodiversity.

At its most basic form, stress is mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension—a sense of being weighed down in an extremely adverse or uncomfortable situation. This definition doesn’t really seem to cover how stress truly impacts us, so let’s dive deeper.

While February is widely known as the month of love, it also serves as Eating Disorder Awareness Month, with Feb 23–Mar 1 set aside as a week solely dedicated to increasing visibility of these serious mental health conditions.

Unbeknownst to some, January is National Stalking Awareness Month—an effort to spotlight a deleterious form of victimization that is often overlooked, dismissed, or even romanticized in the media.