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You are a reservoir, not a provider

Mother’s Day is this weekend. And my friend Tara Mohr has instigated the very inspiring Grandmother Power blog campaign. I write today to create my own little intersection between these: I write a love note to myself as a mother (I celebrated my 5th anniversary as a mother on April 25 with Cooper’s 5th birthday). [...]

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Mothers are sensual, pleasure-soaked creatures (or we ought to be)

Happy Mother’s Day everyone! And I mean everyone: You either are a mother, or you had one at one point. And every time we celebrate mothers, we expand the grounded, sustainable power in the world. During a week rife with mother’s day messages, I’m not interested in rehashing the tried and true bits of wisdom [...]

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Sensation, Spirituality, and Sustainability: Fruits of a Turned-On Relationship

Most of my readers consider themselves pretty progressive, liberated, and new-fangled (rather than old-fashioned), right? Do you? I do, too, but I’ve also realized, in my quest for deep satisfaction and happiness in relationship, that I’ve had to drop layer after layer of old conditioning, belief, story, and cultural more, in order to forge the [...]

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