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“The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Experiencing life through the body is the truth of the situation. We are of service to our bodies or they will make us serve them. Only one ongoing health condition can change the totality of your life. Even brief illnesses refocus our attention on what in our busy-ness is...

“The only thing about masturbation to be ashamed of is doing it badly.” –Sigmund Freud

Whatever else the holiday weekend may offer, don’t forget to honor the fact that May has long been declared national Masturbation Month. Good Vibrations launched the annual celebration of self-pleasure in 1995 to protest the firing of Clinton appointed U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders. Conservative...

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

These opposites have more in common than we might expect. Learning how to win or lose with grace is another way to define how to live and grow with maturity. Richard Bach summed it up when he said: “That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed...

“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around… Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.“ ~Larry Dossey

Does mental health enhance sexual wellness? Does sexual wellness enhance mental health? Yes and yes. Creating your...

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” -Carl W. Buechner

I have been organizing a 6^thgrade basketball team for my youngest daughter this spring. I have seen my fair share of the antics and intensity that accompanies youth sports over many years as my boys have competed at high levels in everything from soccer to tennis to basketball. Today was a...

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” –Woody Allen

The most positive thing you can do with your life is to show up consistently and authentically. It seems like stating the obvious, but in day-to-day life there are more people who check out of their relationships and quit on their commitments than you would think. Sometimes this is a conscious choice, but more often it is the small...

Listen to the enlightening views on shamanic sexual healing by BABA DEZ NICHOLS, speaker and teacher on the sacred traditions of spiritual sexual healing and founder of the Sedona Temple and School of Temple Arts. Release the guilt, shame and fear about sexuality and discover the grace of tapping into the sexual power we all hold to manifest your deepest desires.

“If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection.” –Gunnar Bjˆrnstrand

We strive for perfection even as we would readily admit that we and life are far from perfect. Things gone wrong, small errors in calculation, misjudgments are all part and parcel of life in 3D on earth. Learning to see the imperfections and failures that our life...

What does sex mean to you? While no one else can provide an intrinsic meaning to the concept or practice of sexuality we all struggle with defining this most basic and integral part of ourselves.

“We are the recorders and reporters of facts – not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”-Alfred Kinsey

What does sex mean to you? While no one else can provide an intrinsic meaning to the concept...