Sexxy Love Story

I am beyond excited to share this book! My memoir, Sexxy Love, is now live on Amazon to celebrate the year of the dragon! Navigating through thirty years of love, lust, torment, pleasure and pain, an empathic woman’s journey from tropical islands to the mainland enriched with intimate relations, Tantric alchemy, plant medicines, travel, and …

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Do you Know Who you Are?

Far too powerful to be contained by contaminated minds  Radiant manifestations occasionally crushed but Resilient enough to RISE from our own ashes to dance on the corpse of our lesser selves  Demolishing the dams of conditioning, confusion and hurtful assumptions… To FLOW like clean water drenched in grace Grounded in chaos, aligned with ancient wisdom …

I Sold my Car and Spent Nine Months in Asia

I wrote this from a small island in Thailand where I spent months feasting on coconuts that overflowed with nourishing water while adjusting to my new chosen reality.  A trip to incredible India in the spring brought forth waves of unfamiliar trust, surrender and acceptance that completely altered my course. Certain days I felt like …

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Fire and Water

The most common complaint from women in sex therapy is not having enough time to enjoy. Taoist theory states that men are like fire and women like water. Fire lights quickly and burns easily. Women need more time and legitimate foreplay, which begins in her heart, in order to boil. On average, it takes men …

Surrender

The French author and teacher, Margo Anand, said, “The word surrender has significant roots, in which ‘render’ has the meaning to melt and ‘sur’ means super or highest. The true meaning of surrender is to melt into that which is higher than yourself.” I’ve always found that quote to be so beautiful. “Melting into that …

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Love is Infinite and Eternal

Imagine falling in love with everything you dislike. Maybe we need a time-out to:Love the rhythmic courses of life with curiosity for the weird ways they take shapeLove the disagreements, challenges and varied perspectivesLove our beliefs with warm smiles of acceptance and understanding What if we oozed sweetness from our hearts with a profound gratitude …

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Hey Jealousy

Tantrics view jealousy as a manifestation of impurity. Considered to be one of the biggest poisons in relationships , jealousy is often birthed from unrealistic expectations , insecurity, and feelings of inadequacy.  Perceived as a problem of the ego, the opposite of love, possessiveness breeds instability and fuels unattractive behavior.  This icky pang in self esteem …

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Listen

After driving to a small town for provisions we headed back to our secluded riverside camp. The 20* drop in temperature wasn’t enough to prevent me from following a primal pull. As the rainstorm subsided, the seductive lure of sacred water invited me to merge with Her cool rejuvenating magic.  With wide eyes and a …

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Le Petit Mort

In French, orgasm is sometimes referred to as le petit mort, the little death. (Aww) For some, a near-death like spirituality, detachment from normal consciousness, and loss of control accompanies climax. Dreamy! In Ecstasy through Tantra, Dr. John Mumford states that, “Orgasm is the only spontaneous, natural experience of a deathless, birthless, timeless, sorrowless dimension.” …

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Hysteria

One of the first “diseases” to be described formally was hysteria, diagnosed specifically in women.     Symptoms of this mental health condition included: chronic arousal, anxiety, erotic fantasy, irritability, excessive emotions, delirium and, coincidentally, vaginal lubrication.      Identical to sexual frustration/deprivation.      More than just a Def Leppard song, hysteria was a way to pathologize “everything that men …