by Heather (LS) Scarboro LCMHC-QS, LCAS, NCC I am incredibly grateful that I was born in 1981 and raised in the best ever two decades of music; 80's and 90's. Not just because the music was fantastic—But because I grew up in a world where music seemed to be everywhere, and in my world, there weren’t many rules about what I was supposed to listen to. My father was a "big hair band" rocker, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist. He was in many bands, but what I remember is being expos

by Heather (LS) Scarboro LCMHC-QS, LCAS, NCC One of the last photos of Shade laying on his bed in front of the front door, Asher, his feline brother is laying with him On September 3, 2026, we said goodbye to our family dog, Shade. He was 16. Sixteen years. There is something almost impossible about condensing sixteen years of companionship into a sentence like, “We lost our dog.” We didn't just lose a dog. We lost a member of our family. We lost routines. Sounds. Habits.

by Heather (LS) Scarboro LCMHC-QS, LCAS, NCC Anime style cartoon of me, wearing a Donetello TMNT mask, in a tie dye HST tee shirt. The background is NYC in cartoon style and I'm holding a cartoon slice of pizza. The words say, "Therapeutic Fandoms" there is also a cartoon "POW!" and "Kaboom" in the 1970's batman cartoon style. There are certain characters we don’t just watch —we feel them. For many of us who grew up with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Cringer wasn