Good Clean Reads

Lubrication is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make intimacy more enjoyable. And even though our bodies naturally produce lubrication, it isn’t always enough. Hormonal changes, stress, medication, or simply wanting a little more glide are all good reasons to reach for lube!

Start the year off with increasing the fun, Deep Fun in fact with our guest, Bernie DeKoven a certified Fun Coach.   He has spent his life understanding the nature of play and creating opportunities for the Well Played Gameto transform your relationship to love and life. There is a great deal to be learned about how we can live more satisfying lives by introducing and sustaining more fun in them....

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries. ” ~Astrid Alauda

John Gottman described the experience of total overwhelm as being emotionally flooded. He employed the term in his explanation of what happens to many couples in the heat of an argument. When things get intense and we are overcome by our emotional state we lose our ability to communicate...

Although this is the day of new beginnings for me it is also a point of reflection about how to sustain the positive changes that have begun to reinvent my life. Years ago when I was 20-something I lived in France and memorized the fifty principles of miracles that make up the first several pages in the Course in Miracles. One of my good friends and I learned them all and had to keep repeating...

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Zig Ziglar

I have achieved my goal of the positivity quest, which was to change my mind. It has been a long and well-documented climb of turning my sights and sensitivity towards a positive world view. Yet, here I stand, 365 days later with not only an extraordinary view of my life’s potential...

Discover the truth about all the people in your life who prefer their own company to a crowd of friends.  Anneli Rufus author of the  Party of One: the Loner’s Manifestodispels the negative associations and myths of not being social. Dive deep with us as we discuss the ways that we get stuck in life and the simple, but not necessarily easy fixes to creating a life that is responsive and open to...

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” -Albert Einstein

The Hubble telescope has captured images of the universe that provide scientists a whole new universe to contemplate. It was able to...

“Courage is a kind of salvation.” -Plato

Years ago I gave my son a children’s book about courage that illustrated the many small ways that we learn to find courage as we grow up. Everything from standing up and giving a speech in front of the class to saying goodbye to a close friend who is moving away. Starting new schools, new jobs, or new habits all take courage.

Endings take courage too. At...

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” -Mary Anne Radmacher

I never had babies that slept. My second child was awake every night for two years. I was so exhausted by the time the third and fourth babies arrived that as...