The V-Word

One of my  oldest friendships ended yesterday with the premature death of my friend, Janice.  She was just shy of her 58^thbirthday, a day exactly two weeks before mine. I feel her all around me today. She is probably happy now to be free from her cancer-ridden body and all of the physical constraints that tethered her endless sense of beauty and spirituality to the ground. She held on loosely to...

“His expression pulls at that dark part of me, buried in the depths of my belly- my libido, woken and tamed by him, but even now, insatiable.”  -E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

The story that has shifted the mainstream consciousness of sexuality is about a young beautiful virgin, who doesn’t recognize her own beauty and a deeply troubled young man, that channels his childhood pain and extreme...

Have you ever longed for a soul mate? Co- Authors and life partners Mali Apple and Joe Dunn break down the elements of turning your relationships into a Soulmate Experience. Approaching your relationship without expectation and judgment allows your relationship to thrive. They discuss all the hot buttons of jealousy, fear and manipulation and how changing your perspective on how you love can bring...

If modern day politics and the increasingly large polarization that is dominating rhetoric has anything to teach, it is this: there are no solutions to be found when we are asking the wrong questions. Demanding answers to the wrong questions is a practice that often get trained into us in our personal lives. The wrong questions are easily identified as a product of our fears and judgments. At...

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy® (PACT) which integrates neuroscience, infant attachment, arousal regulation, and therapeutic enactment applied to adult primary attachment relationships.
He speaks to professional audiences on subjects of couples therapy and preventative psychotherapy through early...

I have been with my partner for over ten years. Our sexual relationship has been positive and balanced until this last year when my wife’s sex drive has dropped to almost nothing. I am afraid to even bring up the topic because it just turns the rest of our relationship sour for days. I know that this is not a fidelity issue, but I don’t know what to do. I am not ready to give up my sexual life and...

We can’t come up with real solutions for the diminishing resources we face as a society until we all agree to a few basic premises. The first premise, which at least rhetorically is shared by both parties in the current debate is that the most accurate measure of any civilization is seen by how it cares for its least fortunate, most vulnerable members. The Republicans family values are at their...

“Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. ‘Yes’ is the answer.” -Swami X

Sexual dissatisfaction is one of the top reasons cited when we leave our relationships. It is also one of this life’s most worthy challenges to take on; not only for the meaning and pleasure it can bring to our relationships, but also for the very real health benefits that a satisfying sex life bestows on our well being. I...

Rethink what it means to recover from infidelity with Dr. Tammy Nelson, renowned human sexuality experts and author of the several books including The New Monogamy which presents a revolutionary approach to healing a relationship after infidelity. This conversation will give you the courage to face the end of the relationship you lost and inspire you to re-establish your ability to trust yourself...