Ellie Goulding's song "How Long Will I Love You?" embodies a poignant reflection on the timeless nature of love and the enduring commitment to cherish and nurture it. The delicate and heartfelt lyrics coupled with Goulding's emotive delivery create an atmosphere of deep emotional resonance. The song's ethereal melody and tender vocals intertwine to evoke … Continue reading How Long Will I Love You?
Category: Relationships
Narcissistic Behaviour Patterns, aka – NBPs
Narcissism... it's become a commonly used term to characterize a person's negative behaviours, almost as a diagnosis of NPD (Narcistic Personality Disorder). NPD is a medical diagnosis, and is quite rare because of its very nature... people who fit the medical diagnosis of it wear a mask of extreme confidence, are secretly and deeply insecure … Continue reading Narcissistic Behaviour Patterns, aka – NBPs
Self-Respect
I like me. I hope you do too. It'd be kinda sad if you don't, but I'll still like me all the same. In this post, I'd like to talk about self-respect, and I'd like to use my life as a kind of case study. I've lived almost my entire life, save for maybe the … Continue reading Self-Respect
Story, Aliveness, and Eroticism
Eroticism It's life giving aliveness back to itself It's poetry and story we bring to sex It's the inner world of life's experience It's life reminding itself that eroticism is the core foundational experience of life itself Resisting eroticism can only give resistance of aliveness Resisting aliveness can only give a loss of self respect … Continue reading Story, Aliveness, and Eroticism
Being Seen
Being 'seen' isn't just a social and personal longing we all share, it's one of the most potent human longings. Because of that, truly 'seeing' others is the most amazing gift we can each other. It's effect is increased self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-worth, and self-confidence. It's a powerful cure for the crisis of connection we're caught … Continue reading Being Seen
How Many Do I Have Left?
People... we struggle to find what gives us purpose, and to put our thoughts emotions and efforts into the important life affirming stuff in our own individual lives. We struggle because culture, yours included, is very very noisy and bossy about what each of us should and shouldn't be giving a fuck about. As a … Continue reading How Many Do I Have Left?
Loneliness Hurts
We all have times in our lives when we feel the need to spend time alone, me included. The more introverted you are, the more you get recharged this way. I think I'm at least partly introverted... my imagination and fingers start a party and my writing gets better (well, more verbose at least) when … Continue reading Loneliness Hurts
The Power of 10… Why
Alison A. Armstrong writes and lectures about masculine feminine relationships. One aspect she talks about is how dating a 10, a 9, an 8, or even a 7 on your personal "hotness" scale causes you painful emotional damage, and can even open the door to physical harm too. Continuing from my last post about that … Continue reading The Power of 10… Why
The Power of 10
Our culture has mixed attitudes and behavious around rating people on the "hotness" scale of 1 to 10. Most people I know don't like it, and rightfully so. Rating someone like that reduces him or her to a meat sack, and ignores the many many other facets of beauty that makes being with them a … Continue reading The Power of 10
Living Room Sessions
A Living Room Session is where people interested in the topic of the session get together in our living room to explore the topic, share experiences and information related to it, and to practice showing up as their most unvarnished selves. Topics are related to things like sex, or self-acceptance, or relationships, or human potential, … Continue reading Living Room Sessions
Living Room Sessions 