5 Secrets Every Sex Therapist Wants You to Know …
The other day one of my clients came in and said, “All these years, I’ve had it all wrong! I had no idea sex could be this good – this much fun!” I thought to myself, “I seriously have the … Continue...
View ArticleThe Miraculous Love Drug …
Several months ago a friend of mine told me she had begun having terrible menstrual cramps. I suggested next time she try masturbating to orgasm one of the days her cramps were bad. I explained that...
View ArticleDo You Tell Your Kids the Truth? (about sex)
I grew up in a household where both my parents did anger in big and expressive ways. As luck would have it, I was an introverted, happy-go-lucky, but sensitive kid. This combo meant I learned very...
View ArticleAre You “At Home” in Your Body? An interview …
Several months ago, I was interviewed by Jonalyn Fincher at Soulation on the impact of religious sexual shame on our ability to be ‘at home’ in our bodies and with our sexuality and sexual longing. I...
View ArticleWho is Having the Best Sex? What Research (not the media) Says
We see this question on magazine covers lining grocery counters every day. I read studies looking at the numbers all the time. Many of the studies focus on frequency of intercourse. But how good is...
View ArticleMaking Sex Ed Easy …. #1 in a 4 Part Blog Series: 12 Guidelines for...
Being a parent is a humbling endurance event … every day. One minute it can be incredibly rewarding and the next incredibly frustrating. So often when my kids were little I felt like I was flying by...
View ArticleMaking Sex-Ed Easy … #3 in a Blog Series: Parenting 4 – 8 year olds … H.E.L.P!
During the years when my daughter was 5 and my son was 10, both of them straddling this particular stage, we went through a period where we would sit atop my son’s Captain’s bed and read this book...
View ArticleMaking Sex Ed Easy …. # 4 in a Blog Series: Parenting 9 – 12 Year Olds
Let’s begin this final (long …) post in this series with first talking a bit about puberty to get us all on the same page. Puberty is the time frame when the body changes from that of a child to …...
View ArticleHow the Purity Movement Causes Symptoms of Sexual Abuse
I put the paper down. I was 15 papers in with 17 to go – sexual autobiography assignments of my graduate family therapy students. It was the second paper I had read in the last two hours of a young...
View ArticleMy Love List About My Husband … and why gratefulness is good for the heart
Evenings at our house are rather hilarious … you see, neither of us cook. Kids are now gone and so is the sense of obligation to fix dinner … or go to the grocery store. The beloved and I will walk in...
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