Good Clean Reads

That's what Joseph Goldstein kept telling us, though it was hard to believe in the quiet of the meditation center, where, for three months, life was so similar from day to day I could easily confuse Thursday with Friday, Friday with Saturday. And it is still hard to believe, out here in "the world," where I work and buy food and prepare it with my partner; where we have our routines, habits, small surprises: something unexpected in the mail, a friend who passes through town.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If ever there was a season to re-think our capacity and intent to play it is the winter holidays. The darkness and all of the twinkling lights hanging everywhere is the modern day backdrop for all our collective holiday stories celebrating the rising light, re-birth and renewal. And yet, for many of us, this annual pageantry is...

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” –Proverbs 4:23

 

It would have been my friend Janice’s 60^thbirthday this month. She was a multi-talented artist, a compassionate friend, a devoted mother and a godmother to my first daughter. This year marks the second anniversary of her death, which began with breast cancer. As the pink ribbons fly this month, we all have...

We get it. The work week is a busy time, full of meetings, reports to write, kids to pick up and dinners to make. Sometimes casual reading doesn’t exactly make it to the to-do list. So, in case you missed what’s going on around the world (online that is) check out our newest feature, Weekly Recommended Reads. Featuring the finest articles on love, sex, relationships and related topics, as well as...

We get it. The work week is a busy time, full of meetings, reports to write, kids to pick up and dinners to make. Sometimes casual reading doesn’t exactly make it to the to-do list. So, in case you missed what’s going on around the world (online that is) check out our newest feature, Weekly Recommended Reads. Featuring the finest articles on love, sex, relationships and related topics, as well as...

We get it. The work week is a busy time, full of meetings, reports to write, kids to pick up and dinners to make. Sometimes casual reading doesn’t exactly make it to the to-do list. So, in case you missed what’s going on around the world (online that is) check out our newest feature, Weekly Recommended Reads. Featuring the finest articles on love, sex, relationships and related topics, as well as...

This week, we would like to present to you a new weekly round-up of trending articles and topics on the Internet that we thought drew attention, collected thought, and formulated questions in your heads. In case you missed them on our social channels all week, here’s what’s trending the week of August 1st-7th, 2015. Check back next Friday for next week’s Recommended Reads.

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In anticipation of Wendy Strgar’s forthcoming new book, Sex That Works, we’re sharing an excerpt from Wendy’s first book, Love That Works: A Guide to Enduring Intimacy, which is based on her years of writing on Making Love Sustainable. . Critics have called Love That Worksan essential handbook for the daily practice of learning to cultivate the renewable resources of loving relationships and...

June’s been a good month for press for Good Clean Love! Both Cosmopolitan and Mic.com highlighted how great it is that sexual health is becoming a family business and more importantly, a conversation that is perfectly okay to have among family members. Didn’t catch it? Check these out:

First up, Founder Wendy Strgar’s daughter talks to Cosmopolitan about what it was like growing up in this very...