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!

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” -William Blake

Falling in love is easy; our biological imperative to mate kicks in naturally opening our hearts and flooding our nervous system with the euphoric experience of idealized connection. In these early moments of love’s embrace, we receive love viscerally. Every exchange is charged with the energy of passionate recognition and the deep...

The Pleasure Mechanics share touch techniques that will improve your sexual experience and bring you closer to your partner. Visit The Opening Door Saturday at 9AM PST to listen to the full interview.

One of the songs that stuck to me most closely as a child was 500 miles. I may have learned it at summer camp, but the gist of it is a journey song that takes the singer hundreds of miles from his home. Three times up and down 20,000 feet and I am hundreds of- thousands even, miles away from home. I have never been to Vermont and it as beautiful, even in the dark as I have heard.

It is compared...

There is no good side of the fence when it comes to infidelity- whether you are the betrayed or the betrayer argues author Wendy Plump. She shares her intimate history of a broken marriage and the affairs on both sides that brought about its collapse with deep insight and compassion. How ever this hot prevalent issue of affairs has touched your life, you don’t want to miss this provocative...

“Experiencing one’s self in a conscious manner–that is, gaining self-knowledge–is an integral part of learning.” -Karen Stone McCown

People who are emotionally intelligent are seriously sexy. Fluency with one’s emotional life defines our ability to master most other life experiences. Being constantly caught between fight or flight is not flattering, and sadly our sex appeal bears its weight....

I have owned an iPhone for years and have been hanging out on the edges of technology thanks to the young tech-savvy employees in my business and my kids, whose childhoods grew up on continuous, even if controlled, doses of the web world. I am just competent enough to be dangerous is what I always say and grateful that I have young people around me most days to show me the way back to digital...

The relationship to our mother is our first and it shapes many of our most intimate connections. When the relationship breaks down as it often does in the teen years, the cascading impact of disconnection is deep and profound. Don’t miss the wisdom and heartfelt inspiration of this mother daughter team, Sil and Eliza Reynolds. Learning how to be proactive about keeping a strong bond through...

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”  -M Scott Peck

We resist change. We prefer our known discomfort to the fear of what we don’t know. We stay...

Sil & Eliza Reynolds, authors of the book “Mother & Daughtering” shares insights on how to foster open communication.
Visit TheOpeningDoor.org Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview.