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 | 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 11, 2026 | Men, Sacred, Spirituality, Women
Give another human being the gift of helping them to see their beauty. There is a man at customer service at my local Whole Foods. He has worked there long enough that I know him, and one afternoon I was standing at the counter watching him work and I noticed...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 9, 2026 | Men, Sacred, Spirituality, Women
How somatic psychology and kinesthetic intelligence can change you. Most people who want to be loved already know they want to be loved. They understand it intellectually. They can articulate the desire, recognize it in themselves, even name the specific ways they...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 9, 2026 | Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality, Women
The power of a woman’s hunger. Note: Before reading this chapter, please read A Return to Love: The Soul’s Right to Dignity. It provides important context that will help you get the most from what follows. Most women who long to be loved and cherished already...
