Good Clean Reads

Felice Newman , author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us, which Library Journal claims, “sets the standard for which all popular sex writers should aim.” Her clarity and insight into the diverse experience of lesbian sexuality informs and enlightens the motivations, fears and desires that are universal. This conversation uncovers the depth of wisdom and pleasure that...

By Wendy Strgar

“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain.”  -Diane de Pointers

There have only been only a handful of times in the journey of growing my business that I have come up against a wall where the choice of despair or hope in moving forward was the only one there was to make. Today was one of those...

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

The world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

doesn’t make any sense.”     -Rumi

It is a gift to arrive in this field where your shortcomings and mistakes are part of a huge space that can hold them and transform them into steps on a path...

Don’t miss this enlightened and inspired conversation about a Women’s Anatomy of Arousal by Sheri Winston, one of this country’s leading voices on Wholistic Sexuality and female sexual health. With over twenty years as a nurse/midwife, Sheri has developed a unique understanding and inspiring educational models to revolutionize the field of sex education. Learn more about evolving your sexual tool...

My teenage daughter has become sexually active recently and in a passing comment she told me that all her friends think that oral sex is the safest sex they could have and that they feel like it doesn’t even count as real sex. What are the health risks associated with oral sex and are there any precautions short of “just say no” that can make a difference?

It is true that many teenagers consider...

“A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” -Lewis B Smedes

I still get stuck on some memories. It is almost as though my interpretation of some of my childhood is etched into my brain and each time I speak with or about certain old characters in my life, the old story...

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” ~Iris Murdoch

Most of us share a common mis-perception about happiness. We expect to identify it through how we feel rather than viewing it as the perceptual frame of reference that it is. Oddly you could be quite happy at a work task and not feel happy at the moment...