Sexual Healing
— I sat in my studio this morning with a client, listening to her sexual story, her desire to have the experiences she knew were there, to feel the things she knew were possible. I was thinking about...
View Article6 Sad Ways You End Up Ruining the Intimacy in Your Relationship
— In the beginning of an intimate relationship, new partners strive to give it all they can. They want to love deeply, give from their hearts, and for their partners to express themselves similarly in...
View ArticleA Gathering of Nothingburgers
Shortly before my latest college reunion, one of my classmates wrote on our class Facebook page that she partially dreaded attending the milestone gathering out of fear it might cause her to feel she...
View ArticleThe Endless Touch
— One of the most beautiful things about learning Sensual Massage, Heart Massage, Healing Massage, is the endless journey of discovery it offers. There are two aspects to this, entwined in each other,...
View ArticleOne Essential Key to Relationship Success (Don’t Trust Your Conclusions)
— Not long ago, I just knew my relationship with my fiancé was over. I saw it so clearly driving home one cloudy morning after having my Kia hybrid serviced. The night before, we’d descended into a...
View ArticleReWorth Yourself
— I recently posted “When you believe you’re worth something, the universe moves.” I believe this with every fiber of my being. The internal shift that happens when one is convinced of their value and...
View ArticleRelationship Alive! Sexy Consent: Deeper Intimacy With Neil Sattin
— Do you want one surefire way to know if the way you’re interacting with your partner is something that they’re into? Get their consent! Is there a place for getting consent even in a long-term...
View ArticleHere’s What I’ve Learned About Desperate Single Males
— When I started working for one of Australia’s biggest providers of sexuality workshops, Curious Creatures, I was still suspicious of men. Well, not all men—more the ‘creepy dudes’, the ones who reek...
View ArticleWe Are Less and Less Connected
— I think I’m going to try to focus on an article every once in awhile and write a small reflection on it. That might help me with both the idea of writing, and the process of researching. Happy days...
View ArticleMental Health is a Spectrum
— When I was depressed, I felt disconnected from the world. It’s a hard feeling to describe, that feeling that nothing in the world matters. That no smile is good enough. That each task is pointless,...
View ArticleThe Meditation of Touch
— There is a touch that is slow, so slow. There is a touch that is gentle, so gentle. It comes from the heart, an energy that flows through your body into your hands so that your hands become your...
View ArticleThe Exchange
Starring Vanessa Kirby and Robert Sheehan. When two bags are mixed up at a hotel, two guests find themselves unknowingly connected in a fleeting moment. At the bar, she remembers his shirt, he...
View ArticleVulnerability: The Heart of Connection
— This is a story about the power of connection. A few months ago, I trained a group of male engineers on an Emotional Intelligence course. If ever there were a challenge in persuasion for a woman who...
View ArticleMy Girlfriend Lies. Is This the New Norm?
— Q: Can I ask your thoughts on not being fully truthful. For example: “I’m tired and we can’t catch up tonight.”, but then she was seen out – hitting the town. When is it normal to expect the truth or...
View ArticleRelationship Alive! Grounded Spirituality for Deeper Presence and Connection
— Is it possible to be a spiritual being in a human body? Transcendent, yet grounded? And why is that so many “spiritual leaders” tell us to leave our feelings behind? How is it possible to be truly...
View ArticleThe Shade of Wisdom
— Sometimes you have a bad day. No one is to blame. Life happens. I’ve learned the only way to avoid falling into the deep, dark abbess of irritation is to hang on to the edge. Tight. Both hands. I...
View ArticleWhat It Means to Trust
— It’s funny how we outgrow what we once thought we couldn’t live without, and then we fall in love with what we didn’t even know we wanted. Life keeps leading us on journeys we would never go on if it...
View ArticleThe Process of ‘Being Positive’ is Not What You Think
Be positive This is the trend that you’ll hear millions of westerners shout from the rooftops. It’s something that’s taken hold over the last ten years in a social frenzy of people trying to take the...
View ArticleVerse By the Pocketful
I’m not sure I knew I was setting out on an important journey. The whole battalion had been marching for three days, in the rain, the heat, the Korean miseries. Was something new trying to break into...
View ArticleGateway Drug, to What?
— You’ve probably heard about those addiction studies with caged lab rats, in which the rats compulsively press the heroin dispensing lever again and again, even to the point of choosing it over food...
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