This time of year many of us find ourselves sitting across the table from a family member we don’t enjoy being around. As the saying goes, you can’t pick your relatives. But does that mean we have to quietly endure? If you are anything like me, the anticipation of encountering difficult relatives can be so …
These are a few of the topics you’ll get enlightened about in this powerful interview by Christian Pedersen of Love Works: What to do when the doctors say there’s nothing wrong with you, but you still aren’t able to or don’t want to have sex. The “Sexual Ghetto” we create around our own sexuality. Why …
I have a very simple question for you. Do you feel excited and even joyful when you tell someone you care about “No?” Kind of a strange question, huh? Well I don’t always feel that way but a lot of the time I do. And it’s not because I delight in making the people I …
As we continue to digest the sweeping changes taking shape in our world in the wake of the US presidential election and other political shifts around the globe, it is my sincere hope that we can find our center through loving connection with ourselves and others. There are many threads to that and I am …
My relationship troubles began long before I ever entered into a romantic relationship. My parents were locked into a violent and abusive marriage that trained me to believe there are winners and losers – victims and perpetrators in all relationships. Because of my training, I only knew how to submit to my partner’s wishes or …
I have only been in love – truly, deeply in love – twice in my life. So I can be extremely tenacious when the inevitable challenges to relationship arise. I don’t give up easily. I don’t walk away at the first sign of trouble. When I was much younger, I hoped that the intensity of …
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