Reading Time: 6 minutes America and the world, my heart goes out to you. The challenges we are facing are daunting, unprecedented, and heart-breaking. In the United States, California is on fire. The Gulf Coast is getting pummeled by hurricanes. Anti-police protests are increasing, police are getting away with murder again and again and again, and now protesters are …
Reading Time: 5 minutes When I was young, I never liked how people used the word God. Living in a disproportionately Christian society, people talked of God like he was a supernatural white guy with a beard on a cloud in the sky. And although he seemed to have unlimited power and wisdom, he spent his free time hating …
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are a lot of really great and entertaining podcasts that focus on the sexual aspects of our relationships, such as Tristan Taormino’s Sex Out Loud, Emily Morse’s Sex With Emily, Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus’ Sex Talk with Clint & the Doc, Dr. Wednesday Martin and and Whitney Miller’s True Sex & Wild Love, and Dan Savage’s …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In The Seven Lessons of Love, I wrote that spiritual practice is a crucial step on the path towards greater self-love. By rooting our love in something larger or something greater than ourselves, we remove any limits on how much love we can bring into our lives. However, when I talk to people about deepening …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes One thing I love to do is coach couples who are interested in opening up their relationship. I find it can greatly help to know what is to come, to have some key emotional communication skills, and to be prepared to manage jealousy in a healthy way. Another thing I love to do is convince …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the incredibly kind, joyful, and wise meditation teacher Spring Washam for the Learn to Love Podcast. We talked about a lot of things, including Black Lives Matter, how to hold the complexity of the human experience with a fierce heart, and the importance of compassion. But there was …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes relationships can seem like a bit of a crapshoot. Even the most fiery, passionate, made-in-heaven relationships can fizzle over time, despite our best efforts. On the other hand, someone we start out disliking for all their foibles could be the person we walk down the aisle with. How are we to cope with the …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes So you’re stuck at home, it’s day 45 or 60 or 100 of this worldwide epidemic and you already finished Tiger Kings, the Mandalorian, and re-watched The Office. What’s next? Why not choose something that opens your mind and teaches you something new about the world? Why not watch something to further your spiritual development? …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Don’t practice to heal yourself. Don’t practice to fix yourself. Don’t practice to improve, redeem, or repair yourself. Don’t practice because of the guilt you’re not doing enough, or not enough, or could be more than you are. Don’t practice because something is wrong. Instead… practice to love yourself, to accept all parts of yourself, …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now is the time to love Since the beginning of humanity and particularly over the past one hundred years, we have made tremendous advancements in how we live. Technology has given us the radio, the TV, the plane, the car, the computer and the smart phone. Science has extended the length of our lives and …
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