Good Clean Reads

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” -Theodore Hesburgh

Saturday marked the 28^thyear of my marriage; we celebrated by going to pick up six pounds of honeybees. I have been building their hives for the last month and my husband has been studying bee books. The balance of our talents and how our energy manifests was at one time a continuous source of...

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”  ~Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

Our time is our life. How we spend the hours of our days is the truest measure of what we create, what we value and how we invest our life energy. This is why the recent statistics regarding the social takeover of Internet gaming and social media should give us pause for wonder and concern....

Discover the secret and dark side of the life of a sexual dominatrix through the voice of Melissa Febos, author of
Whip Smart: The true story of a secret life. Melissa shares the power struggles she had with her self
as she wandered into the deep psychological work, that is played out in a sex dungeon. She tells an honest story of the mix of power, curiosity and impoverishment that was generated by...

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.” ~Edward Wallis Hoch

My teenage daughter has removed herself from Facebook. Her cold-turkey drop of a technology that had dominated many of her free hours caught my attention. “I noticed how anxious it makes me,” she replied simply when I asked why. “I just...

Discover your most successful self with the authors of Switched on Networking. Tapping into our subconscious and reprogramming your brain is easier than you may have ever imagined. Jerry Tepler offers proven brain gym exercises combined with Donna Fisher’s winning networking strategies to realize your potential in both work and personal relationship building. Don’t miss these simple to learn...

“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.” -Michel de Montaigne

I am convinced that the most significant and meaningful change we can make within all of our relationships begins with our foundational ability to relate to our selves. This teaching is ancient and lies at the heart of every spiritual discipline. The Buddha summed it up saying: “You yourself, as much as...

The real meaning of tantra is about finding true and grateful presence to life.  Listen as Tantra educator and passionate love coach Anya Shekinashares simple exercises that will deepen your intimate connections and open a pathway to exploring more pleasure. Learning how to bring your full self to the present moment without any expectations or performance anxiety is a mystical experience that...

Years ago I memorized the fifty principles from the Course in Miracles. One that has always stayed with me is how miracles heal the past in the present and thus release the future. Many of us don’t recognize how we hold our future hostage to the pain of our past. We don’t understand that healing the past happens in the here and now. In part this is because it is easy to turn the past into a static...

“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”   -Aberjhani

One of the most common ways that we leave each other while staying together is to remove sex from our relationship. This is not a new topic. In recent...