by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 14, 2026 | Communication, Eroticism, Love, Relationships, Sacred, Sexuality, Spirituality
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...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 13, 2026 | Joy, Love, Sacred, Spirituality
What a magnificent web we weave when we practice to receive. I want to tell you about the moment I told a stranger to “Have a beautiful life.” That exchange was complete in a way that the original exchange had not quite been. The blessing offered and the blessing...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 13, 2026 | Love, Men, Sexuality, Women
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...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 13, 2026 | Dignity, Love, Men, Sexuality, Women
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,...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 13, 2026 | Love, Men, Sacred, Women
When marriage becomes less about improvement and more about cherishing. Welcome. We’ve been expecting you. You’ve been here before. The road up is longer than you remembered. Somewhere around the fourth switchback your phone gives up, and the pines take over....
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 13, 2026 | Eroticism, Joy, Love, Men, Passion, Relationships, Sexuality, Women
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...
