Why is Sex Painful? Finding a Path Back to Pleasure “Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.” — Socrates Socrates was onto something thousands of years ago: pain and […]
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Body Neutrality in the Bedroom: How to Enjoy Sex When You Don’t Love Your Reflection We are often told that loving yourself unconditionally is the prerequisite for a good sex life. But for many of us, that feels like a mountain too high to climb. If you’ve ever found yourself turned away from your partner
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Why Do I Have Dark Sexual Fantasies? Understanding Sexual Shadow Work “Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help.” — Rainer Maria Rilke If you have ever had a thought, a dream, or a persistent fantasy that felt “wrong,” “dirty,” or even “monstrous,” you are not alone. Many
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Critical Update: How New Laws in Colorado are Changing Sex Therapy in 2026 On March 31, 2026, the landscape of mental health and sexual freedom in Colorado shifted significantly. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, combined with the rollout of new age-verification laws, has left many
What to Do When Your Partner Wants More Sex Than You If you’ve ever felt a pit in your stomach when your partner touches your shoulder at night, you aren’t alone. You might be asking yourself, “Why does my partner want more sex than me?” or wondering if there is something wrong with you, or
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Cyclical wellness is the practice of understanding health, emotion, and consciousness through the rhythmic, season-like changes of the menstrual cycle. Psychotherapist Jane Severn calls this lifelong landscape menstruality: “a state in which a woman resides at all times,” encompassing the entire arc from menarche through menopause and beyond. Rather than reducing menstruation to symptoms or
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“The body isn’t a thing we have but an experience we are.” -Christine Caldwell, PhD My Arrival with Somatic Work Before being formally introduced to the world of somatic healing, my intuition drew me to it. I remember a poignant initiation, sitting in a circle with the other members of the performance art dance troupe
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