The V-Word

by Elizabeth Spannuth

Communication is the name of the game and we are constantly hearing about how important it is to talk to your partner. “Communicating” is not always pleasant. It might be positive, but not necessarily pleasant. Some subjects can be tough or uncomfortable and some things are just hard to hear coming from a loved one. There are tons of relationship experts out there ready to...

By Teagan Shepard

Do you find that, even though you spend a good bit of time with your partner, you just don’t feel that connected anymore? It’s highly likely that quantity doesn’t equal quality for you.

Every so often, and I recommend once a week, do something that both of you enjoy and can connect with. Not sure what to do anymore? Here are a few tips.

Take a hike. Seriously, get out of the...

Learn how to give up insecurity and self recrimination in this tender conversation with Kristin Neff, PhD and author of Self-Compassion.Compassion is one of the most misunderstood yet life changing skills in our emotional toolkit. It connects us deeply to all of humanity and in doing so offers us access to true open-heartedness. In practicing self compassion we give up the painful judgments that...

by Jennie Gill Rosier

Over the last few weeks, all but one of our four cars have stopped being able to get us from point A to point B for one reason or another. (Which, by the way, doesn’t include the Hus’ [aka- my husband’s] dream car that’s on jack stands in the garage. So technically, all but one of our five cars don’t work. Why do we have five cars? That’s another story for another time. I...

This is where the tire hits the road, the moments when the external reality, fraught with difficulty and challenge threatens to suck you back to old belief systems and slip into doubt. This is the place where faith can ring hollow and positivity seems like something you are trying to convince yourself is true. I am happy to report even in this most slippery of slopes, gratitude, which is called...

I have been having pain on my vagina for a long time and have tried all the over the counter medicines for infections I could find. Nothing is helping and it hurts just to pee and wipe myself. Sometimes the burning is bad just when I sit for too long or wear jeans. I can’t even think about being sexual and my boyfriend thinks I am making it up and it is all in my head because you can’t really see...

“For having lived long, I have experiences many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”  -Benjamin Franklin

One lesson that I didn’t expect to learn from focusing on receiving is how little opinions actually matter. This is surprising, as I have long relied on...

Good Clean Love would love to thank each and every one of its Facebook followers who every day bless us with their own blessings. Though it’s been a couple of weeks, don’t think that we haven’t been noticing some of the lovely things you’ve been listing as things you’re grateful for each day. While some might think that gratitude shouldn’t be overused, these fans of ours have risen to the...

by Anastasia Strgar

About a month ago, when I was going through my own mini internal crisis, my mom showed me an article  from which Katie Couric posted some of her favorite advice. It was all really good advice, but the one that got me thinking the most was a comment made by Anna Quindlen:

“Remember Pinocchio? There is a Jiminy Cricket on your shoulder, giving the very best advice. It is you,...