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Love’s In Need of Love Today
Happy Day of Love! Dia de Amor! Valentines! I hope you are filling yourself up with self-love and feeling deep presence to the relationships you have. Take a moment today to honor the role that love plays in your life. Whether you have a lover or...
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Let’s Get Loud About Superbowl Slut Shaming
J. Lo and Shakira did a fantastic, stylized, powerful, s£xy Puerto-Rican pride-filled halftime show that showcased girls of color, asked them to raise their voices and gave them the spotlight. And all we can do is complain about their skimpy clothes, pole dancing and...
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How To Tame Your Scorpion
It's hard for many people unfamiliar with the idea of developing a sexuality intentionally to imagine how one works in the inner sexual life. How do you uncover the shadows that keep you stuck in sexual ruts, dissatisfaction, disconnection, frustration and...
read moreFrom Sexual Abuse to a Sexual Homecoming, Excerpt from Woman On Fire
When Patsy contacted me, she was the youngest private client I had ever had. At 23, she was ready to heal from the sexual abuse history that had impacted her life in more ways than she could see. She wanted to become sexually empowered and to improve her relationship...
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Sexual Self-Actualization: A Hierarchy of Sexual Needs [Part 2]
Read part one It’s almost shocking that psychologist Abraham Maslow thought only 1% of people would self-actualize. He thought that "most of us function most of the time on a level lower than that of self-actualization". Source I think most people want to see...
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Surrendering to Life: The Inventory of the Un-Done
Over the last month I’ve been very sick—sicker than I have ever been in my life. I’ve had every test under the sun to figure out what is wrong and everything kept coming out normal, which on one hand was good news but on the other hand left questions with no answers. ...
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Halloween is the Most Sexual Holiday
Last week I had to write about Katie Hill given the political situation that had erupted. I got a huge response from that article—thank you to everyone who wrote in and expressed your thoughts, whether or not we agreed. I always appreciate hearing from my readers and...
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Revenge porn is a tool of the patriarchy
This year I passionately worked on the ground for House Representative Katie Hill’s campaign in northern Los Angeles. My friends and I were committed to helping this young, smart woman win a seat that had been held by Republicans for decades. This week Katie Hill...
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How hidden shame impacts sexuality
One of the most common things people say they want when it comes to sexuality is to release the shame and guilt they carry about it. Most people are walking around with hidden shame about sex, their bodies, pleasure, their desires, or their attractions and kinks....
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DeArmouring & ReWilding the Sexual Self
Dearmouring and ReWilding are interrelated aspects of our healing that allow us to move fully towards true liberation and freedom. The work I do as a sexual empowerment educator and healer uses both the clearing mechanism of dearmouring processes and fills the...
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“Confidence has nothing to do with sexuality”
Last week I received an email from a woman who was very upset because she had taken my Confidence Types Quiz and she was shocked that there were questions about sexuality on it. Gasp! I get that people might not like Facebook asking questions about sexuality or...
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The Good Girl vs. the Authentic Woman
It’s no secret that women are socialized to take care of everyone else, to question ourselves, and to take a back seat in business, money and sex. As women, being second-class, paid less, experiencing double-standards and being expected to take care of everyone but...
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What’s a Sex Coach?
When I tell someone that I’m a sex coach, they generally find it confusing. Often, I will hear, “Oh, so like, you’re a sex therapist?” Well not exactly. “So then, what is it that you actually do?”
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What the USWNT, Black Panther & the 116th Congress have in common [love letter]
On Day One of the 116th Congress, as more women and people of color than ever before poured into the House chambers to do their newly appointed jobs representing the people of The United States, a palpable shift could be felt. Rep. Nancy Pelosi called it “The People’s...
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5 Ways Your Self-Esteem Impacts Your Sexuality
At it’s core, self-esteem is about holding ourselves in esteem—liking oneself. Do you wake up each day and love being you? Do you support you?
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What Sexual Empowerment Really Means
We learn to deal with sexuality in deficits. What’s not there. What we don’t have. What we can’t be. What we can’t do. What we need to stay away from. I’d like to swing the lens around 180 degrees and take a look at what we DO want. What we CAN be. What we CAN have. What we CAN do. What types of lovers we CAN draw to us. What experiences we CAN create for ourselves. How we can EXPAND who we are exponentially when we develop, nurture, heal and explore our sexuality.
This week, I want to answer the question, “What does it mean to be a sexually empowered person?”
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Unpacking Santa and Consent
I was walking in Pasadena yesterday and happened upon a local holiday fair, with live music, food, lots of people and a good long line to sit on Santa's lap. I walked by the entryway near the line and saw Mrs. Claus sitting in a chair, but no one was sitting on her...
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My Birthday, Your Wildness
Last Nov. 9 was my birthday--a much better one than in 2016, the day after the election, possibly one of the most collectively depressing days in recent U.S. history. I'm a words-of-appreciation lover so I do love cards and letters if you feel moved to send me one...
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