by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 29, 2026 | Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
If you’re going to walk up to the edge of life and look over into the precipice, you’d better know how to find your way back. Many of you know about my lifelong passion for fasting and have read my books and research. I’ve long credited fasting for all the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 29, 2026 | Eroticism, Joy, Love, Men, Passion, Sacred, Sexuality
Men’s hidden tenderness and unspoken longings may be the most erotic things on the planet. You were built to be unshakable—to stand firm in the storm, to carry the weight, to be the rock when everyone else is falling apart. You’ve spent a lifetime proving you don’t...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 26, 2026 | Dignity, Love, Men, Sacred, Women, Worship
Because some kinds of love are too big for smaller words. The Flinch It happens at dinner parties. It happens at the dentist. It happened once in the checkout line at Costco, which is not where I expected to discuss the theology of desire, but there we were, between...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 25, 2026 | Humor, Joy, Love, Marriage, Passion, Sacred, Sexuality, Velvety Steel Balls
A life fully inhabited — Sacred, saucy, and completely without apology. When someone says that are living an erotic life they mean they are living a “balls to the wall” life. The words erotic and eros are deeply connected. Eros is the spiritual force of...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2026 | Dignity, Humor, Men, Sacred, Women, Worship
We rehabilitate men who have been chronically under-cherished. Welcome to the Sanctuary. We are a nonprofit organization, in the sense that nobody here is making any money, dedicated to the recovery and rehabilitation of men who have been chronically under-cherished....
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 23, 2026 | Eroticism, Love, Men, Passion, Sacred, Women
The woman who fears your hunger is not the one you’re here for. You’ve been told your whole life that wanting her—really wanting her, with a fire that burns through your veins and a longing that aches in your bones—is something to be controlled, minimized, or even...
