Category Archives for Sexual Intimacy
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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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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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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4 Guided Meditations to Awaken Your Sexual Well-Being
Guided meditations can serve as a portal to awakening your sexual well-being. For many, creating sexual experiences consisting of pleasure, peace, ease, connection, joy, embodiment, and compassionate acceptance seem to be out of reach, impossible, or not realistic. Obstacles to creating sexual well-being are many. Some are: Painful past relationships and experiences Trauma Attachment wounds […]
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Consent = Body Love: Creating a Culture of Consent
My online course, “Wild Belonging: how to honor the intimate connection between sexuality, compassion and the cosmos”, focuses on the inter-dependence between sexuality, pleasure, sensuality, compassion, and the mysterious, sacred wisdom of the cosmos and of Mother Earth. The course also talks a lot about Body Love. Body Love is an essential aspect of creating a […]
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Creating Intimacy in Uncertain Times
Creating intimacy in uncertain times can be a huge challenge. In creating intimacy during uncertainty, compassion will be required more than ever. Without compassion, we will feel more distressed and less connected. For some partners, creating intimacy during this time of quarantine and social distancing will come naturally. It can be a welcomed time of […]
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Shedding our Skin: Returning, Reclaiming, Redefining
Shedding our skin is the journey of returning, reclaiming and redefining our true nature and our Sacred Sexuality. It is a powerful act of both letting go and reclaiming; letting go of the lies that have imprisoned us and reclaiming our truest, most divine selves. I want to share with you a most potent dream […]
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Sacred Sexuality: How Do We Create It?
Sacred Sexuality… how do we create it? Access it? Cultivate it? In my last post, I introduced the idea of Sacred Sexuality. Today I want to start the conversation about how we can create and access it so that it benefits our lives, our relationships (to self and others), our health, and our overall sense […]
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