What Kind of Lube Should I Use? - Good Clean Love

What Kind of Lube Should I Use?

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!

 

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The Link Between Our Emotional Well-Being and Physical Pain - Good Clean Love

The Link Between Our Emotional Well-Being and Physical Pain

Research on the mind-body connection tells us that emotional distress can – and often does – manifest throughout women's bodies, and that chronic pain and other physical distress can affect our mental health. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this week in particular (May 12–18) is Women's Health Week, so we’re taking a moment to highlight the ways that those overlap in physical and emotional ways. 
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5 Steps to Emotional Resilience - Good Clean Love

5 Steps to Emotional Resilience

It is only in the present moment – in the instant of here and now – that our experience takes on any real meaning or offers us any truth. Squandering our attention on the regrets of yesterday or the anticipation of tomorrow’s worries is how we distract ourselves from our real power and flame the fire of our deepest fears.
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The Top 5 Most Common Health Concerns for Women Today - Good Clean Love

The Top 5 Most Common Health Concerns for Women Today

May 12–18 marks National Women’s Health Week. The main focus is to raise awareness about manageable steps women can take to improve their overall health. It is important to practice positive health behaviors every day. Although there are many health concerns women should take caution about, today we are going to talk about five of the most common.

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Why I Love Science - Good Clean Love

Why I Love Science

For the record, I am not a scientist. I got close when I married a scientist. He was all about Chemistry and Biology, and became a physician. I was always the one more intrigued by our personal chemistry, which was ultimately what tipped me over to his research at the crossroads of human biology and chemistry. Necessity was the mother of invention as I worked to find a solution to the vaginal dryness and painful sex that increasingly weighed on our interpersonal chemistry as we grew our family. 
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Join The Pill Club: Safe Birth Control Box with Goodies - Good Clean Love

Join The Pill Club: Safe Birth Control Box with Goodies

Why You Should Join The Pill Club ASAPBirth control and lubricant delivered straight to your door? The future really is female! At least, that’s what we’re beginning to think after collaborating with the incredibly innovative staff at The Pill Club. Take it from us, this is definitely the type of club you want to be in: free delivery, free goodies, reliable service, great ethos, and – this month – Good Clean Love samples! Birth control delivery services can be complicated, but The Pill Club makes it easier than ever before for women to access contraceptives with their birth control box with goodies. How? Read on to find out.
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Practice These 4 Intentions to Live Better in Your Body - Good Clean Love

Practice These 4 Intentions to Live Better in Your Body

For me it is always the advent of spring, as the light returns and the Earth proclaims the green possibility of renewal everywhere, that my questions of how I am living takes on new urgency. Understanding why I act in the ways that I do, how I respond or don’t to the people in my life, and what I am creating with my time here seems the only matter of true importance. The most powerful way that I have discovered to work with these questions has been through setting better intentions. 
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How to Weed Out Negative Thoughts Before They Overtake Your Mind – And Your Relationship - Good Clean Love

How to Weed Out Negative Thoughts Before They Overtake Your Mind – And Your Relationship

“You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.” ~Terri Guillemets 

I learned about weeds before I learned anything about gardens. For my 40th birthday, my husband built me a beautiful, secure deer fence to make my first garden. Someone advised me to add straw to augment and lighten the heavy clay soil. Unfortunately, what I thought was straw turned out to be hay and seeded itself heartily throughout my new garden. In no time I was completely overwhelmed with weeds that I had inadvertently sown.
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How to Start Over with Your Partner After an Affair - Good Clean Love

How to Start Over with Your Partner After an Affair

The percentage of people impacted by infidelity is somewhere between 30 and 60% of all married couples, depending on the study cited. More interesting than the differences between men and women are the different patterns of infidelity for each gender. Cheating men are more likely than cheating women to have an affair with someone younger than their spouse. On the other hand, cheating women are more likely than cheating men to have an affair with someone better educated than their current spouse.

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We Celebrate Women - Good Clean Love

We Celebrate Women

Necessity was the mother of invention when I began Good Clean Love. I reacted very badly to the petrochemical ingredients that make up the majority of intimacy products and, after nursing through four children, I had vaginal dryness all the time. The products that my doctor recommended only made a bad situation worse.
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