ASK IZZY

ASK IZZY

Ask Izzy is a biweekly advice column about relationships, mental health, and sexuality. Written by Isabel Mata — a Seattle-based lifestyle writer, podcast host, and mental health advocate — Ask Izzy offers tangible expert advice so all readers can have stronger relationships, better sex, and healthier mindsets.

  • Moving through infidelity when you live together

  • 20+ gender-neutral alternatives to "partner" and "significant other"

  • How to know when you've met "the one"

  • How to know when you're smoking too much weed

  • Four ways to deal with change

  • Best practices for meeting your partner's family over the holidays

  • Fighting uncertainty in the workplace

  • Time management for the neurodivergent

  • Setting up healthy communication in a neurodiverse relationship

  • My landlord keeps dead-naming me

  • Handling Bi erasure and finding therapeutic alignment

  • Mismatched sex drives & Poly house drama

Ask Izzy: Just who is Isabel Mata? — New SGN columnist to get messy and talk sex, love, and queer cringe