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Growing Up Sexually.

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6 Ways to Get the Love We Deserve.

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Getting Lost Helped Me Find Myself.

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Finding Empowerment Through Vulnerability. ~ Jenn Falk

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Climate Change. ~ Jenna Penielle Lyons

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Reporting from the Front Lines of Human Experience: Meditation, Media & the Monkey Mind.

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Why Ignoring Your Past Doesn’t Work.

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He Holds My Hand While We Sleep: Dreams, Desire & Yoga Nidra.

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10 Reasons to Have More Sex.

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An Open Letter to Men.

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Soul Connection: The Deepest Kind of Relationship.

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Who We Are is an Animal, Inside. ~ Amanda King

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5 Ways I Turned Lemons into Lemonade. ~ Cindy Lee Lothian

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20 Things to Start Doing in Our Relationships.

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Seeking Self: A Domestic Violence Survival Story. ~ Cortney Harden

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How to Decide if a Friendship Is Worth It. ~ Sonia Lopez Simpson

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Letting Go of Needing to Hear “I’m Sorry.” ~ Kimberly Lo

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The Biggest Psychological Crisis of Our Generation. ~ Kasia Budzen

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Loss & the Sweetness of Memory. ~ Teresa Jordan

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The Indomitable Spirit of Love. ~ Karen Doyle

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Date a Boy who Serves.

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In Defense of Boring Boys. Date a Boy who Travels? That’s nice if your life is about pleasure. But there’s a more exquisite joy. A dear friend of mine just shared an article “Date a Boy who Travels” on her Facebook Wall: “Love this.” I didn’t love it. But I do get it. We all [...]

Joy & Pain: Learn to Feel Again. ~ Dusty Ranft

via on May 18, 2013

If we try and circumvent or avoid the storm, if we always sail around the rising waves, we remain unskilled sailors in an ocean of troubled waters. Our journey will leave us wet, battered, and salty. Unmarked—but asleep.

6 Ways to Get the Love We Deserve.

via on May 17, 2013

Ain’t nuthin’ gonna change unless we realize we’re feeding our perception of reality and change our actions that support what we don’t want our lives to look like. Huh? If I want someone to always look like an asshole, then I’m going to treat them like an asshole. I’ll make sure I do and say things which [...]

Getting Lost Helped Me Find Myself.

via on May 17, 2013

Your weakness is your strength. I woke up this morning with eyes practically swollen shut from all the crying I had done the night before, when I had gone through the oddest experience. I’ve moved around a little bit in my life, but this is the first place that my husband and I really have ever [...]

George Takei’s Response to “20 Young People Who Believe Marriage Should Be Between a Man & a Woman.” {Pictures}

via on May 17, 2013

“Our adversaries call their campaigns ‘in defense of marriage’ or ‘in protection of marriage.’ Why are they so defensive and protective? Are their marriages so fragile?” ~ George Takei Oh, how I love George Takei—who has become, perhaps, this Nation’s most-outspoken (and brilliantly cheeky) advocate of same-sex marriage. This was his reply to the article, [...]

Finding Empowerment Through Vulnerability. ~ Jenn Falk

via on May 17, 2013

Learning to Listen from Within A dear friend of mine recently made this post on her Facebook page, “I’m not Superwoman. I don’t have to have it all or do it all.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot the last couple of weeks because her statement rang true for me as well; it spoke [...]

A Message to Yoga Teachers, Students, Practitioners, Healers & Clients.

via on May 17, 2013

Who doesn’t love their yoga teacher? Yoga teachers are the bomb. They’re guiding their students in the classroom to feel and experience the empowering strength and unconditional love that engaging in the practice itself teaches. Who doesn’t love their healer/therapist? They’re showing their clients how to heal themselves, awaken their soul and redefine their concepts [...]

His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Climate Change. ~ Jenna Penielle Lyons

via on May 16, 2013

But the Dalai Lama said that we should first detach ourselves from the situation in order to become objective. Forget about politics. Forget about money. Forget about territory, borders, or ego. Become objective and look at the world from the standpoint of a steward–a steward who regards his or her immediate surroundings with an insurmountable level of love and care.

When Our Guilt Interferes With Our Ability to Seek Justice. ~ Paula Carrasquillo

via on May 16, 2013

I was too afraid to tell my father about what this boy did to me. I was terrified that my father would end up killing him and spending the rest of his life behind bars. I opted not to tell my father or my mother. I decided to tell the police instead, but that didn’t go well either…

3 Ways to “Win” an Argument with Your Husband. ~ Shasta Townsend

via on May 16, 2013

Hint: It’s not what you think. The impulse was to throw the TV remote at his head and tell him what a total asshole he was by watching hockey and cutting me off with six simple words: “I don’t want to fight, Shasta.” These I interpreted as “I don’t want to be present to you [...]

Your Intuition Is Your Answer.

via on May 16, 2013

“When you know, you know.”  I never understood this quote, until I understood it.  Nine years ago, I stood in the doorway of the house in which I currently live, and declared, “I’m home,” without ever stepping foot inside.  One month later, I moved in. Two and a half years ago, I visited my friend [...]

10 Reasons I Still Love You.

via on May 16, 2013

Happy upcoming wedding anniversary to my husband—and kudos to us both for forging a marriage that I would re-commit to all over again. Living a life as a couple isn’t always easy. People try to make it look easy, and a few of us certainly do have a less difficult time, but I truly believe [...]

He Holds My Hand While We Sleep: Dreams, Desire & Yoga Nidra.

via on May 15, 2013

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with yoga nidra, or the divine sleep—an extremely powerful yogic practice for connecting to and manifesting your deepest intentions and heart’s desires. This guided practice (you can use headphones to practice at home) takes between 20 and 40 minutes, during which you linger in the potent stream of your deep subconscious. [...]

10 Reasons to Have More Sex.

via on May 15, 2013

It’s not a secret that sex sells or that just the mention of sex gets everyone a little hot under the collar. Humans were designed to be sensual beings and are drawn to sex as a profound vehicle to connect, feel, experience pleasure and euphoria, make babies and love others. When the time and space [...]

An Open Letter to Men.

via on May 15, 2013

Men, on the other hand, have always possessed the dominance, but something was missing with all their chest-puffing responsibilities throughout the centuries. It’s called “vulnerability.”

Soul Connection: The Deepest Kind of Relationship.

via on May 15, 2013

Soul connections are eternal. Every other relationship we have, no matter how sweet, kind, intimate, or apparently meaningful, will in the end be revealed to be only temporary.

Who We Are is an Animal, Inside. ~ Amanda King

via on May 14, 2013

One time, when I was young, a therapist told me that I didn’t know who I was. I rolled my eyes. “Well then, who are you?” she asked. I didn’t have an answer.  “Who are you?” I shot back at her. She laughed. “I asked you, first,” she said. So, I’m much older, now and I [...]

5 Ways I Turned Lemons into Lemonade. ~ Cindy Lee Lothian

via on May 14, 2013

When life goes drastically wrong and you find yourself hurtling uncontrollably on a crash course to disaster, what do you do? Do you put your hands up in surrender as you become a unwilling passenger on a one way ticket to hell? Do you scream for your mother only to hear your own voice echo back [...]

We Need Look No Further Than This Moment, This Breath, This Heartbeat: Be Here Now. ~ Jillian Locke

via on May 14, 2013

“Shedding our skin is one of the most vulnerable acts we’ll ever engage in. Some of us prefer to stay swaddled in stagnation while others try releasing this protective covering prematurely. The journey of life is finding the balance between hibernation and emergence; between hiding and showing our faces, our true faces.”


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