Everyone you care about loves to hear about your affection for them. And telling them has some really awesome effects... on both of you. Expressions of affection (giving and receiving) is directly related to positive effects on mental health, relationship resilience, sexuality, overall contentedness, self acceptance, interconnectedness, and it's essential in maintaining and strengthening our … Continue reading Tell Them You Care
I Don’t Want To See That
Have you ever tried one of those virtual reality headsets? They're such a technical marvel! When you put one on, the real world fades away and the VR world takes its place. I bought one a little while ago and let me tell you, it's soooooo much fun! I've been to the virtual Grand Canyon, … Continue reading I Don’t Want To See That
Action Today
Today might be the best chance you have to take action to nudge (or shove) yourself toward your right life, the life your soul knows is yours to live. The longer you wait, the more deeply you get stuck in the status quo, and fear digs in even deeper, eating away at your ability to … Continue reading Action Today
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
Nature’s Surprising Little Trick
Recently, a woman I know experienced a medical event serious enough to have paramedics called, who then took her to hospital. Like many, if not most of us, I've seen this kind of thing before, but this time I had a reaction that really surprised me. Of course, my first reaction was a natural concern … Continue reading Nature’s Surprising Little Trick
Love That Sustains
Love, true love, the love that sustains us takes no joy, no satisfaction, no pleasure in your pain or your suffering. True love rejoices at your every triumph, forgets your foibles, defends your very freedom, makes a home in its heart for you and keeps a candle burning in the window. That love wants nothing … Continue reading Love That Sustains
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
Being You… All Of You
If you want to make the world a better place in any way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself. ~Martha Beck During the 1999 Mount Holyoke Commence Speech, author and journalist Anna Quindlen said: “…nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is … Continue reading Being You… All Of You
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 