The Velvety Steel Balls Radiance Project (or something like it)
The Erotic Four and the Alchemy of Healing: How My 1993 Study on Communication Apprehension Predicted a Revolution in Love
Creating a shift from surviving to thriving, marked as happy, joyous, and free. In 1993, I sat in a quiet room at Santa Clara University, staring at the results of my study on communication apprehension among adult children of alcoholics. The data was clear: people...
You Are Allowed to Shine
By shining your light on others, you give them permission to rise to the occasion. This chapter is not about confidence, though confidence may follow from it. It is not about success, though success often accompanies it. It is not about self-esteem in the therapeutic...
Moving Toward What Matters: Building an Extraordinary Life
The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is rarely talent. It is almost always courage. There is a moment that recurs throughout human life — not once, but repeatedly, across the decades of a lived existence — in which a person stands at a...
How Many Men Have Loved Deeply and Never Spoken?
One of the great hidden tragedies of human life is not unrequited love. It is unexpressed love. The culture keeps a careful record of love expressed. The proposal on the mountaintop. The letter delivered at the last possible moment. The declaration made in the rain,...
The Joy of Roleplay: Sexual Fantasy Come to Life
Unleashing the fantasy: How roleplay and power dynamics can transform your sex life. There's a moment, just as you slip into a character, when something electric shifts between you and him. It's not just sex anymore—it's a game, a story, a world where the rules are...
Song Recommendation:
— “Baba O’Riley,” The Who, 1971
