Good Clean Reads

Wendy Maltz, LCSW, DST, is an internationally recognized speaker and sex therapist, tell us how to connect with our fantasies as healing mechanisms.
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I remember many years ago when I was deep into the juggling mothering phase of life with my four kids. Back then, I was the only driver and their lives were filled up with games, lessons and play dates. Sometimes I would wake in the early morning, anxiously trying to figure out how I could cross town and get 2 kids where they needed to go within the same hour. One of my oldest friends who was...

When we feel broken inside, everything around us seems broken, too. The sense of being not enough- good enough, capable enough, kind enough, or loving enough, pervades every interaction. Judgments and storylines that uphold them are easy to grab onto, easier still to invent. In a ridiculous attempt to heal we chase the story like an animal chasing its own tail. We spin out of control the harder we...

If you have been feeling lost and overwhelmed by a world that feels more chaotic with less real connection, don’t miss this life changing conversation with Martha Beck. Her profound wisdom based on ancient human traditions offers the tools to become your own “way-finder”, tools that will help you unlock your own potential for deep transformation in your own life and come home to your true,...

Martha Beck, author and life coach, talks about the importance of finding a “tribe”.

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“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” -The Dalai Lama XIV

It is an odd and painful irony that often just as things are really coming together successfully in life, we often lose touch with the love that had inspired us to get there. We expect just the opposite. In our longings for whatever we aspire to, we believe wholeheartedly that achieving our dreams and...

Blind positivity is not really that positive. In fact, if there is any single overarching confusion about how positivity science works, it is in the mistaken belief that one should hold positive beliefs all the time, even when things are painful and challenging. This kind of positivity is related closely to the magical thinking that is promoted by trainers who psyche you up to walk on hot coals....