by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 19, 2026 | Joy, Love, Relationships, Sacred, Spirituality
When I was 16, I spent a fall weekend on a Church retreat on the South Side of Chicago with about 30 other teenagers. We stayed at Hyde Park Union Church with pastors from our local Church. Late Friday night, several of us went out and walked around the Church’s...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2026 | Men, Relationships, Sacred, Women
A world of pillars is a fortress, but a world with you is a sacred space. Here is the absolute steel truth: If men are the pillars that hold up the roof of the world, women are the Spirit that turns that structure into a sanctuary. A civilization of pillars alone is a...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2026 | Eroticism, Love, Men, Sacred, Sexuality, Women
The look that ruins him for anyone else. There’s a moment, just as your lips first brush against him, when everything changes—not because of what you’re doing with your mouth, but because of what you’re doing with your eyes. Most women close theirs...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 14, 2026 | Eroticism, Men, Relationships, Sacred, Women
Because the divine masculine deserves a standing ovation – schwing! In the grand tapestry of human existence, there are few subjects as simultaneously revered and ridiculed, celebrated and shamed, as the male penis. It is the original wand of creation, the divine...
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...
