Life That Works: Meeting the Enemy - Good Clean Love

Life That Works: Meeting the Enemy

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -Voltaire While it is true that our...
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Life that Works: A Tribe of Friends - Good Clean Love

Life that Works: A Tribe of Friends

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends we chose." -Tennessee Williams My friends provide a mirror for the best parts of myself....
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Making Love Significant

“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.”  ~Ursula K. LeGuin

If ever there was an emotional state that we idealize it is love. We want nothing of its dark belly underside; we demand that it always show only its shiniest side to us. Many of us are unprepared for the battles that the heart must be willing to carry on in the name of love....

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Life That Works: Learning Acceptance

“Acceptance is not submission, it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you are going to do about it.” -Kathleen Theisen

There is great beauty and strength in learning to see and accept things as they are. It is an easy and invisible reaction to look away from the facts, to refuse to see what the world is showing us in order to protect our own ideas about how things are...

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Life that Works: Direction Not Destination - Good Clean Love

Life that Works: Direction Not Destination

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” -Buddhist Proverb

There is a subtle but profound distinction between having a clear direction in life and a marked destination. I am all for the continued effort to define our life’s direction. Ironically, sometimes our focus and skills on defining this direction are so acute that we unwittingly get deeply attached to...

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Sex and Sexology with Jaiya

Reknowned sexual health educator and radio show host of “Sex with Jaiya” joins us today to share her extensive training and sexological body worker training with us.  Don’t miss her insights and wisdom from her book Red Hot Touchon incorporating the miraculous capacity of our hands to ignite real passion into lovemaking. Explore the many layers of erogenous zones and listen to her story of...

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Life That Works: It Begins Inside - Good Clean Love

Life That Works: It Begins Inside

"Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes."...
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Life that Works: They Are All Small Moments

“Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us un-summoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.”  -Anna Quinlen

It is the small moments in life that create our...

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Life That Works: In Praise of Rest - Good Clean Love

Life That Works: In Praise of Rest

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." ~Chinese Proverb   I am relearning who I am and reveling in the quiet simplicity of not...
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