Reclaiming Our Heart’s Desires: A Path to Recovering from Purity Culture, Religious Trauma, and Sexual Shame
Reclaiming Our Heart’s Desires: A Path to Recovering from Purity Culture, Religious Trauma, and Sexual Shame Please join Sarahlynn Etta of Maitri Movement and me for a day-long retreat focused on healing from the toxic narratives, beliefs, and experiences of purity culture and sexual shame. This retreat offers a healing space to explore, acknowledge, and […]
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Creating Your Own Pleasure Model of Sexuality
Creating your own pleasure model of sexuality simple means approaching sex through a lens of pleasure and prioritizing the experience of pleasure as the main event. It also means that we de-emphasize goals, and move away from a “performance” perspective, and away from depending on orgasms or penis/vagina intercourse to bring us joy and pleasure. […]
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Community of Healers Continued: Dr. Mandi Murtaugh, PT, DPT
Every sex therapist knows that having a skilled pelvic floor physical therapist in your community circle is key to providing quality care. I am lucky enough to have Dr. Mandi Murtaugh in my circle. Over the last few years, I have encouraged many of my clients struggling with pelvic pain, especially pain with intercourse, to […]
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Cultivating Erotic Freedom: Healing from Purity Culture and Sexual Shame
Cultivating erotic freedom is potent medicine for all humans. It is the portal that opens us to our creative potential and unique gifts. For many of us, raised in Western culture, the idea of erotic freedom is elusive, confusing, and anxiety-provoking. We long to feel free and joyful in our body and our sexual expression, […]
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Coaching Services Now available!
Coaching services are now available at Ryan Therapy Services. Coaching is not therapy, but a whole different kind of help. It offers a context for people to clarify, identify and work toward reaching their goals. Coaching helps clients take action and move closer to creating the life or relationship they desire. Since I am a […]
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Matri Movement: A Place of Healing, Sanctuary and Wellness
Maitri Movement, is a place of healing, sanctuary, and wellness. Founded and created by Saralynn Etta, a licensed massage therapist and certified yoga and pilates instructor, her offerings are a beautiful combination of movement, meditation, and bodywork for the community of Gig Harbor, as well as all of Pierce and Kitsap counties. Maitri Movement supports […]
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A Community of Healers: Pilates by Kelly
In my first post featuring community healers and practitioners, I want to introduce Kelly Nebres, owner and creator of Pilates by Kelly. Kelly is one of those people, who after working with her, you feel stronger, more at peace, more calm and more hopeful. Her gentle, encouraging, and affirming presence is a balm for one’s […]
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Stepping Into the River’s Flow
So much of my life has been accepting of and ruled by binary thinking. Either this or that, black or white, light or dark, good or bad, straight or gay, female or male, young or old, healthy or unhealthy. I realized how much I have been harmed by this rigid way of thinking. How this […]
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Memories of Being a Young Mother
Memories of being a young mother: I gather the flour, yeast, salt, and honey. I find the old recipe book my aunt gave me years ago when I was newly married. I haven’t made bread in years. I feel a deep uncertainty settle upon me. “It’s only making bread”, I tell myself. Why such doubt […]
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The Four Roots of Wild Belonging
We all want to belong. To have a soft place to land that holds us and protects us. A place that supports us, offers understanding, acceptance, and encourages us to thrive. A place in which we can be our truest, most authentic self, and experience unconditional love. But in today’s world, true belonging is continuously […]
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