Podcasts about presence presence

Watch the video of this podcast instead on my YouTube channel?? (link below): https://youtube.com/live/LOufFJB7evE Subscribe to my YouTube channel (link below)(i.e. "Uplift Past Crossroads") https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuv53Xdk-97UcS_gSvsS76A Subscribe | Turn On Post Notification | Like | Comment | Share To help this channel grow and to help us bestow on this world even more content, you can make a donation here: PayPal = https://www.paypal.me/upliftpastcrossroads Cash App = cash.app/$troubledontlast Venmo = @troubledontlast This video is PART II to this video on my YouTube channel: "How I Got To Where I Am Spiritually (Jeremiah 29:13) | Questions From Social Media" https://youtube.com/live/6m6v8IaSguA FOLLOW MY SOCIALS: 1. YouTube/podcast: Uplift Past Crossroads 2. Facebook, LinkedIn: Sean Christopher Jenkins 3. Instagram, Twitter, Snap, TikTok,Threads: @troubledontlast 4. Instagram: @my_daily_bible 5. Tumblr: @troubledontlast1 =============================== The videos related to this video on my YouTube channel: 1. Life Verses https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUD1OLPc3Ijq3XACVKHnWRNI 2. Verses of The Day https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUA1zGvfxzE2yq9ell15hjRO 3. Questions From Social Media/Question of The Day https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBjb9YN5GfrmS2l9KnilHrk 4. Jeremiah 29 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUAXROzw30KpXaBpUsCvHg0d 5. Jeremiah https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBc0M4zhiatnKtRg6o97X_h 6. God First/Put God First/Seek Ye First/Seek God/Seek God First/Seek God Before/Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God/Looking For God/Searching For God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUDTywtaQRO62Bk3n4k_7X08 7. Talk With God About It/Pray About It/Pray To God/Ask God/Asking God/Seek God's Wisdom/Ask God For Help/Seek God's Advice/Go To God For Help/God's Help https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBpqtzav4Nn-T5S8MlY5y6a 8. Relationship With God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBaYzDXwL4AmgVYAn_-AbUj 9. God Is Near/God Is Available/God Is Always There/God Is There/God Is Close By/God's Presence/Presence of God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBxCVJlSduf65JnCPOj4dTy 10. Meditation/Meditate/How Do I Study The Bible?/Read The Bible/Studying God's Word/Meditating On God's Word/Know The Bible/Stay In God's Word https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUA4q1VoEi89ajT1LeEXTm9t 11. God Finds Us/Know Jesus/Knowing God/I Found God/Know God/Knowing Jesus/Know The LORD/To Know God/To Know Jesus/How I Found God/God Found Me https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUA_GbDe6_n5Hh29qLyQdEu6 12. Planting Seeds/Sowing Seeds/Sow Seeds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUB2aHB4pJC5nEZeGAx2S72t 13. You Reap What You Sow/Reaping/Harvest/Harvesting/Reap https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUACpk3CuI3pkOsYU_KbTay6 14. Hunger For God/Hungry For God/Hunger After God/Hunger After The LORD/Hungering After God's Word https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUASPaZ_gSAq733ySd3MNZT5 15. Appetite For God/Craving Spiritual Milk/Craving More of God/Craving More of God's Word/Appetite For God's Word/Craving The Milk of God's Word https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBwfQbFdR8p76NJNbq9U_bH 16. God Over All/God Above All/God Over Everything/God Above Everything/God's Law Above Everything/God's Law Comes First/God's Word Over Everything https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUD7N7Oa384c4XAVIAN0jtjD 17. Actions Speak Louder Than Words/All Talk No Action https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBaE32h0jTvu4G6Inl0A0QY

Watch the video of this podcast instead on my YouTube channel?? (link below): https://youtube.com/live/6m6v8IaSguA Subscribe to my YouTube channel (link below)(i.e. "Uplift Past Crossroads") https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuv53Xdk-97UcS_gSvsS76A Subscribe | Turn On Post Notification | Like | Comment | Share To help this channel grow and to help us bestow on this world even more content, you can make a donation here: PayPal = https://www.paypal.me/upliftpastcrossroads Cash App = cash.app/$troubledontlast Venmo = @troubledontlast PART II to this video can be found on my YouTube channel: "Seek God, You'll Find God (Jeremiah 29:13) | Life Verses" https://youtube.com/live/LOufFJB7evE Listened to my 3rd sermon ever here: a. Sermon Only = "How To Fight Your Battles : Wisdom From The Conie (Proverbs 30:24,26) | My Sermons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKtoKqe_yU&t=126s b. Complete Service = "COMPLETE SERVICE: How To Fight Your Battles : Wisdom From The Conie (Proverbs 30:24,26) | My Sermons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcGIH50Ays FOLLOW MY SOCIALS: 1. YouTube/podcast: Uplift Past Crossroads 2. Facebook, LinkedIn: Sean Christopher Jenkins 3. Instagram, Twitter, Snap, TikTok,Threads: @troubledontlast 4. Instagram: @my_daily_bible 5. Tumblr: @troubledontlast1 ================================== The videos related to this video on my YouTube channel: 1. Life Verses https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUD1OLPc3Ijq3XACVKHnWRNI 2. Verses of The Day https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUA1zGvfxzE2yq9ell15hjRO 3. Questions From Social Media/Question of The Day https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBjb9YN5GfrmS2l9KnilHrk 4. Jeremiah 29 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUAXROzw30KpXaBpUsCvHg0d 5. Jeremiah https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBc0M4zhiatnKtRg6o97X_h 6. God First/Put God First/Seek Ye First/Seek God/Seek God First/Seek God Before/Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God/Looking For God/Searching For God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUDTywtaQRO62Bk3n4k_7X08 7. Talk With God About It/Pray About It/Pray To God/Ask God/Asking God/Seek God's Wisdom/Ask God For Help/Seek God's Advice/Go To God For Help/God's Help https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBpqtzav4Nn-T5S8MlY5y6a 8. Relationship With God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBaYzDXwL4AmgVYAn_-AbUj 9. God Is Near/God Is Available/God Is Always There/God Is There/God Is Close By/God's Presence/Presence of God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBxCVJlSduf65JnCPOj4dTy 10. Meditation/Meditate/How Do I Study The Bible?/Read The Bible/Studying God's Word/Meditating On God's Word/Know The Bible/Stay In God's Word https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUA4q1VoEi89ajT1LeEXTm9t 11. God Finds Us/Know Jesus/Knowing God/I Found God/Know God/Knowing Jesus/Know The LORD/To Know God/To Know Jesus/How I Found God/God Found Me https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUA_GbDe6_n5Hh29qLyQdEu6 12. Planting Seeds/Sowing Seeds/Sow Seeds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUB2aHB4pJC5nEZeGAx2S72t 13. You Reap What You Sow/Reaping/Harvest/Harvesting/Reap https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUACpk3CuI3pkOsYU_KbTay6 14. Hunger For God/Hungry For God/Hunger After God/Hunger After The LORD/Hungering After God's Word https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUASPaZ_gSAq733ySd3MNZT5 15. Appetite For God/Craving Spiritual Milk/Craving More of God/Craving More of God's Word/Appetite For God's Word/Craving The Milk of God's Word https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBwfQbFdR8p76NJNbq9U_bH 16. Little By Little/The Little Things In Life/Small Things/Ordinary Things/Mundane Thingshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBHxZuF8-9-7-ck2Ck2SfU7 13. Pray And Work/Partakers/Coworkers/Coworkers With God/Work And Pray https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUC2JRVeq5Pe4N1xPGM4JpIy

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Flow is the state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.”Presence is to be in a flow state of connection with others.Here's the last discussion about the Happiness TrackSign up for the newsletterEmma's new book SovereignHBR: The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive EnergyHBR: Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More ProductiveToday is the first of series of podcasts about an idea that needs more consideration in our workplaces. The idea of presence.Emma Seppala is a psychologist and lecturer at the Yale School of Management – she also runs the Women's Leadership program there. I first spoke to Emma about 6 years ago when I came across her book the Happiness Track. The hypothesis of that book was in many ways the sweet spot of this podcast: the notion that if you make workers happy then they do their better work. Emma had a new book out this week called Sovereign and it felt like a great reason to have a new conversation. The conversation leads into the next block of podcasts which are all about the idea of presence. Over the last 4 years we've seen discourse from CEOs about wanting workers back in the office but in many ways they're putting things the wrong way wrong. A lot of us find ourselves making our way into work and sitting on video calls all day. Or having headphones on because its so noisy. We got home at the end of the day thinking ‘what was the point of that'. When bosses say they want us to be present in the office, what they actually describe is something different. They talk us about us interacting, having ideas, watercooler moments. Bosses say they want us to be present in the office, but what they really want is presence, for us to be in each others company.For me presence is related to flow Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Presence: Presence Forever by Reading Family Church

It's an opportunity to grow in faith when Christ seems to give us space to hear anew and be led to the deeper truths He wants us to know.

Pastor Aaron preaches part 2 of the series titled "Presence".

Pastor Aaron preaches part 2 of the series titled "Presence".

The Presence: Presence Lost by Reading Family Church

The Presence | Presence by Kurt Holmgren on December 31st, 2023.

Click the link below for sermon notes and lifegroup questions!   https://pathwayvb.com/wp-content/uploads/FYI-12.17.2023.pdf

Watch the video of this podcast instead on my YouTube channel?? (link below): https://youtube.com/live/Jcy1u6NXvWI Subscribe to my YouTube channel (link below)(i.e. "Uplift Past Crossroads") https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuv53Xdk-97UcS_gSvsS76A Subscribe | Turn On Post Notification | Like | Comment | Share To help this channel grow and to help us bestow on this world even more content, you can make a donation here: PayPal = https://www.paypal.me/upliftpastcross... Cash App = cash.app/$troubledontlast Venmo = @troubledontlast SPOKEN: Sunday, December 3, 2023 LOCATION: St. Paul AME Church (Columbia, Tennessee) SONG OF THE DAY: "Emmanuel" by Norman Hutchins For more songs of the day and my revelations I have received from songs, check out this playlist on my YouTube channel titled "Musical Revelations/Song of The Day": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBjTiccGDHpp2a3O4ONlAsP FOLLOW MY SOCIALS: 1. YouTube/podcast: Uplift Past Crossroads 2. Facebook,LinkedIn: Sean Christopher Jenkins 3. Instagram,X,Snap,TikTok,Threads: troubledontlast 4. Instagram: my_daily_bible 5. Tumblr: troubledontlast1 ================================================ For more shorts, check out this playlist on my YouTube channel titled, "My Shorts": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBCfl_0G1NL8yzBNMbWDh6w To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "Emmanuel/God Is With You/Loneliness/Feeling Alone/God Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You/God Will Never Fail You/God Is With Us/God Is With Me": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUApEYUGn3RpwWzeZjF7rhL7 To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "God Is An Intimate God/Intimacy Of God/God Is Intimate/Intimate God/God's Intimate/God's Intimacy": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUB4gCr14w_pI7JTp7QKjTpp To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "God Is Near/God Is Available/God Is Always There/God Is There/God Is Close By/God's Presence/Presence of God": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUBxCVJlSduf65JnCPOj4dTy To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "God's Name Is Greater/Names of God/No Greater Name/God's Names/God's Name Alone Is Excellent/For There Is No Greater Name": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUAXQymRF6RmZhcpoKl3Yv To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "Jesus Came Down From His Throne/Jesus Coming Down/Jesus Came Down/Jesus Coming Down/Coming Down From His Throne": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUC1Jo8yUrLdV5DHZZPhLCxb To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "When God Speaks/God Speaks/God Speaking Things Into Existence": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUB_qAXsOJyzZwBNBnvJT51l To listen to more reviews and feedback I have from the books I have read, you can listen to the sermons, bible studies, lessons, etc. I have done on books by checking out this playlist "God In The Flesh/Incarnate God/God In Flesh/The Word Made Flesh/Flesh of God: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5p69431nzUDqtoTFisjkMmi5MnFvd8S6 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upliftpastcrossroads/message

Title: "Resentment-Free Relationships: Key Insights from Licensed Therapist Tara Schmidt" Introduction: Tara Schmidt, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, joins the podcast to share her wisdom and advice on relationships. The episode explores essential aspects of relationships, focusing on presence, trauma, attachment, and effective communication. The Importance of Presence: Presence is crucial in relationships, as trauma often stems from past wounds. Trauma is defined as emotional wounds that affect our perceptions and responses. Relationship issues often result from individual learnings and past wounds. Staying present helps prevent misunderstandings and reactions triggered by unresolved traumas. Recognizing and Managing Triggers: Emotional reactions can signal underlying trauma or wounding. Slowing down and identifying the root of emotional reactions is essential. Communicating with your partner about your triggers fosters understanding and compassion. Cultivating awareness and self-regulation skills is crucial for managing emotional triggers. Attachment Styles and Their Impact: Secure attachment involves creating a safe environment where individuals can be themselves. Insecure attachment styles, such as anxious and avoidant attachment, result from inconsistent caregiving. Anxious attachment can lead to clinginess and seeking constant reassurance. Avoidant attachment may result in self-sufficiency and emotional distance. Nurturing Safe Attachments: Parents should create emotional safety and support in the home. Safety includes allowing everyone to be themselves without fear of ridicule. Healthy conflict resolution models positive relationship dynamics for children. Balancing authenticity with emotional support promotes secure attachments. Effective Communication: The speaker-listener technique emphasizes active listening and empathy. The listener's role is to understand the speaker's perspective without defensiveness. Suspending one's own narrative temporarily facilitates empathetic listening. Encouraging empathy and understanding in relationships leads to improved communication. Conclusion: Building resentment-free relationships involves presence, trauma recognition, attachment awareness, and empathetic communication. Effective communication requires active listening and suspending one's perspective temporarily. Nurturing safe attachments and emotional support within families is essential for healthy relationships. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becky-smith0/message

This weeks message is from Ps. Jock James.

Today we are reviewing Cory Muscara's amazing book: "Stop Missing Your LIfe"! This was an amazing story on how we can use very practical information to be better humans and more mindfully present and connected to our moments. Cory has an incredible definition of PRESENCE - “[Presence] is more than simply being aware of the moment; it's bringing our full selves into the moment, and the fullness of the moment to ourselves.” Today we dive into his book and more specifically, how being curious can help us all be more mindfully present - moment to moment! Cory's website: https://corymuscara.com/ Cory's podcast "Practicing Human": https://practicinghuman.buzzsprout.com/ Connect with us at Right Here! Right Now!: https://right-here-right-now.constantcontactsites.com/

Presence: Presence Not Perfection - Jesse Lerch - Sun May 2, 2021 by Junction Church

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In what ways might a rediscovery of the promise of God’s presence in our life not only change us, but shape us to give the very thing the people in our lives need so desperately?

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This week Pastor Sonny brings us part 2 of our series. Listen as he breaks down what it means to become more focused on God's presence.

This week we kick off our new series about understanding what it is like to just acknowledge His presence every day.

Susan Bratton, the Dear Abby of sex, joins us again with six essentials for connected sex. Tune in to understand herb cycling and supplementation to support our sexual health against health issues that impact our sexuality, especially as we age. Susan also helps us be better communicators in and out of the bedroom. Something we can all use!   * * *   About Susan Susan is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Considered the Dear Abby of sex, Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages and across the gender spectrum transform sex into passion. Married to her husband, Tim, since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur, who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world.   Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and on NBC as the Marriage Magician. Susan is the Chair Emeritus of The AdTech Conference. She was both CMO and a member of the board of directors for an Anthony Robbins tech startup, as well as serving on numerous boards throughout her career.   In 2009, Susan was honored as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence by the Business Journal, and as a top 10 internet pioneer by Ad Age Magazine. In 2010, was bestowed the Lifetime Industry Achievement Award by DMG World Media.   Susan talks about, after 25 years of marriage, “I know from experience that deep passionate intimacy with my partner is priceless, a priority that tops my list of must-haves, alongside good health and the love of family and friends. I have made it my mission to aide anyone who wants the kind of lovemaking that improves with age.”   * * *   Your Libido Is Your… Sex drive Creativity Passion Lust for live Vitality   What Health Issues Impact Your Sexuality? Diabetes/Pre-Diabetes Neuropathy Loss of sensation Anorgasmia Heart disease Plaque in your arteries/veins Not enough blood flow to your penis   Supplementation It took you this long to get sick, you’re not going to get healthy in a matter of days. We’re always working on our health because we’re always trying to reverse anti-aging, we’re trying to do anti-aging, we’re trying to reverse atrophy. Everything external is a reflection of internal, including our genitalia. Adaptogens/plant-based botanicals Support hormones Lower cortisol Increase testosterone Increase estrogen Manage aromatase expression of over-estrogen in men Supporting herbs Maca – libido support Cacao – polyphenols Nitric oxide precursors Citrulline L-arginine Arugula, dill, beets, spinach, cabbage Supplements Tribulus Terrestris Fenugreek Tongkat Ali Give it 90 days to build in body. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy Some hormones actually help you with things like hearing, like aldosterone. DHEA is a precursor to testosterone and estrogen. Typically, men feel good in the 700-1000 mg/dl. For women Combination of estrogen, bioidentical estrogen, as well as progesterone. Testosterone in coconut cream (used intravaginally)   Herb Cycling Over time, your body actually adjusts to having herbal formulas, and then, they’re not as effective. Each month use a different herb to see what works for you best.   Engorgement It means being filled with blood. It means to nest. When we’re born, when we’re in utero, we all start out as female. And about 16 weeks in, we get a, depending on the XY chromosome, we get a hormonal bath that turns half of us into boys. But we start out with exactly the same genital material. And that genital material turns into a penis or a vulva, a penis and scrotum or a vulva. The two channels that run down the penis, the corpus cavernosum and the corpus spongiosum, those are erectile tissue. Those are the chambers that fill up with blood to give a man an erection. Those chambers are in our clitoris. So, we have a clitoral head, a clitoral shaft, so we actually have a shaft, the glans is like the tip of the penis, the shaft is like the shaft of the penis. So, a woman actually achieves a clitoral erection given enough massaging or oral pleasuring, or lovemaking. And then, the clitoris has two little arms that drape over the entrance to the vagina. That’s called the introitus, the entrance to the vagina. And then it has two plump bags that are the legs of the clitoris, that are called the vestibular bulbs, that are actually under the pubic hair on each side of the opening to the vagina. And that whole structure is the erectile tissue of her clitoral structure that needs to get filled with blood. Then she has a urethral sponge. We have an extruded little tube that goes down the urethral outlet, where your urine comes from your bladder and exits out of your vulva, between your clitoris and the opening to your vagina. That’s an exit. There’s a tube that runs, a fluffy tube of erectile tissue there. That’s what people call the G-spot. You can get to it from the outside, and you can get to it from the inside of the vaginal canal. And then there’s another sponge, called the perineal sponge, that’s located between the rectum and the vagina, those two tubes are parallel up inside her, and there’s a spongy tissue between them. All of that’s erectile tissue. You only see half of a man’s shaft. There’s 50 percent of his penile tissue that’s buried up inside him. Sanskrit - Yoni is the woman’s vulva, and the Lingam is the man’s penis Yoni massage Use Sexual Soulmate Pact Lingam massage   Performance Anxiety Once you understand anatomy and you start to really pleasure each other manually and orally, which gives you additional benefits, then it takes the focus off of intercourse, but it actually also makes intercourse even more pleasurable.   Polarity Testosterone and estrogen Masculine and feminine Estrogen is femininity, it’s all over the map, it’s going a million miles, it’s got its eyes on everything, it’s sensitive, it’s delicate, it’s fussy. Testosterone is straight ahead, goal-oriented, able to just be like in the zone much more easily.   Communication and Getting Your Needs Met Passionate lovemaking is emotionally-connected lovemaking. It’s when you feel totally safe with each other, when you can surrender to your pleasure together, when you can just lock your systems together and go off into joy, that you don’t know where their pleasure starts and your pleasure ends. For a woman especially, to be able to let go, she needs the conditions to be right outside the bedroom as well as inside the bedroom. Women want to be totally taken care of, but they also want some freedom. Women today are very emancipated. Men don’t understand how much romance is important to women, how much encouraging her, telling her you love her, taking her out for a walk in the countryside, rowing her in a boat on the lake, taking her for a hike. Moving a woman’s body moves her emotions, and she wants to feel an emotional connection to you. Men, often, what they want is recreational companionship. They want touch, affection, passion. Physical touch for them is love.   The Platinum Rule Treat your partner the way they want to be treated.   Behind Closed Doors With 20 percent of the effort, you get 80 percent of the results. Sexual Soulmates book You put intention on being a soulmate and learning how to do it.   Six Essentials for Connected Sex The Sexual Soulmate Pact   Lover’s Space Creating a sacred place for you to make love with each other, for slowing down, for getting the temperature right, the sheets soft, having plenty of towels, having organic lube, a pitcher of water, lighting the candles, putting on the music that appeals to you and gets you in the mood, wearing sexy lingerie, dancing for your partner, doing all the kinds of things that are just like getting back into play and making the environment really, really nice. The Soulmate Embrace   Embodied Sex You’re feeling her, you’re touching her skin, you’re not even stroking her skin, you’re touching below her skin to the tissue underneath the skin to give pleasure, you’re bringing pleasure to yourself in all these wonderful nerve receptors by touching her for your own pleasure. You’re stroking each other’s whole bodies, you’re not just using friction of genitals, which is kind of like unconscious sex. This is conscious sex.   Presence Presence in lovemaking is a mindset. It is just like meditation, where when you meditate, and then you start thinking about something else, and then you bring yourself back. If you’re worrying about having an orgasm, you’re not going to have one. Feeling Your Pleasure Letting go Sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system toggling Orgasms actually come out of you. They bubble up out of you like a spring bubbles up out of the ground. Polarity Masculine/feminine Reengage with the Soulmate Embrace Create a safe container for her to let go. Body shame, women as well as men. Atrophy sets in when you don’t make love   Erotic Playdates The more that you turn bedroom into play, the happier you are, and when you learn new things together, the beginner’s mind of meditation, that is really, really great. You can learn about female ejaculation. Men can learn male multiple orgasm. You can learn to have expanded orgasms.   Finding Time for Sex An hour is a quickie. It takes 20-30 minutes for your genitals to get engorged. You have to schedule it. You have to get a babysitter; you have to get the kids to bed early and get dinner done and make a commitment to it. Set a timer if you have to go somewhere so that you can come down from the oxytocin rush. Don’t make the goal about sex.     Deeper Dive Resources Organixx Supplements https://shop.organixx.com/search?q=sexual+health   Organixx Articles on Libido https://organixx.com/?s=libido   The Soulmate Embrace https://personallifemedia.com/soulmate-embrace/   The Sexual Soulmate Pact https://personallifemedia.com/sexual-soulmate-pact/   Susan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/   Susan’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover   Sexual Soulmates Book https://amzn.to/2X8nHMd   My Relationship Magic https://best.personallifemedia.com/relationship-magic-promo/?email_address=   Maca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_meyenii   Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao   Citrulline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrulline   L-Arginine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arginine   Tribulus Terrestris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris

Susan Bratton, the Dear Abby of sex, joins us again with six essentials for connected sex. Tune in to understand herb cycling and supplementation to support our sexual health against health issues that impact our sexuality, especially as we age. Susan also helps us be better communicators in and out of the bedroom. Something we can all use!   * * *   About Susan Susan is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships. Considered the Dear Abby of sex, Susan’s fresh approach and original ideas have helped millions of people of all ages and across the gender spectrum transform sex into passion. Married to her husband, Tim, since 1993, Susan is an author, award-winning speaker, and serial entrepreneur, who teaches passionate lovemaking techniques to her fans around the world.   Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as appearing on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and on NBC as the Marriage Magician. Susan is the Chair Emeritus of The AdTech Conference. She was both CMO and a member of the board of directors for an Anthony Robbins tech startup, as well as serving on numerous boards throughout her career.   In 2009, Susan was honored as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence by the Business Journal, and as a top 10 internet pioneer by Ad Age Magazine. In 2010, was bestowed the Lifetime Industry Achievement Award by DMG World Media.   Susan talks about, after 25 years of marriage, “I know from experience that deep passionate intimacy with my partner is priceless, a priority that tops my list of must-haves, alongside good health and the love of family and friends. I have made it my mission to aide anyone who wants the kind of lovemaking that improves with age.”   * * *   Your Libido Is Your… Sex drive Creativity Passion Lust for live Vitality   What Health Issues Impact Your Sexuality? Diabetes/Pre-Diabetes Neuropathy Loss of sensation Anorgasmia Heart disease Plaque in your arteries/veins Not enough blood flow to your penis   Supplementation It took you this long to get sick, you’re not going to get healthy in a matter of days. We’re always working on our health because we’re always trying to reverse anti-aging, we’re trying to do anti-aging, we’re trying to reverse atrophy. Everything external is a reflection of internal, including our genitalia. Adaptogens/plant-based botanicals Support hormones Lower cortisol Increase testosterone Increase estrogen Manage aromatase expression of over-estrogen in men Supporting herbs Maca – libido support Cacao – polyphenols Nitric oxide precursors Citrulline L-arginine Arugula, dill, beets, spinach, cabbage Supplements Tribulus Terrestris Fenugreek Tongkat Ali Give it 90 days to build in body. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy Some hormones actually help you with things like hearing, like aldosterone. DHEA is a precursor to testosterone and estrogen. Typically, men feel good in the 700-1000 mg/dl. For women Combination of estrogen, bioidentical estrogen, as well as progesterone. Testosterone in coconut cream (used intravaginally)   Herb Cycling Over time, your body actually adjusts to having herbal formulas, and then, they’re not as effective. Each month use a different herb to see what works for you best.   Engorgement It means being filled with blood. It means to nest. When we’re born, when we’re in utero, we all start out as female. And about 16 weeks in, we get a, depending on the XY chromosome, we get a hormonal bath that turns half of us into boys. But we start out with exactly the same genital material. And that genital material turns into a penis or a vulva, a penis and scrotum or a vulva. The two channels that run down the penis, the corpus cavernosum and the corpus spongiosum, those are erectile tissue. Those are the chambers that fill up with blood to give a man an erection. Those chambers are in our clitoris. So, we have a clitoral head, a clitoral shaft, so we actually have a shaft, the glans is like the tip of the penis, the shaft is like the shaft of the penis. So, a woman actually achieves a clitoral erection given enough massaging or oral pleasuring, or lovemaking. And then, the clitoris has two little arms that drape over the entrance to the vagina. That’s called the introitus, the entrance to the vagina. And then it has two plump bags that are the legs of the clitoris, that are called the vestibular bulbs, that are actually under the pubic hair on each side of the opening to the vagina. And that whole structure is the erectile tissue of her clitoral structure that needs to get filled with blood. Then she has a urethral sponge. We have an extruded little tube that goes down the urethral outlet, where your urine comes from your bladder and exits out of your vulva, between your clitoris and the opening to your vagina. That’s an exit. There’s a tube that runs, a fluffy tube of erectile tissue there. That’s what people call the G-spot. You can get to it from the outside, and you can get to it from the inside of the vaginal canal. And then there’s another sponge, called the perineal sponge, that’s located between the rectum and the vagina, those two tubes are parallel up inside her, and there’s a spongy tissue between them. All of that’s erectile tissue. You only see half of a man’s shaft. There’s 50 percent of his penile tissue that’s buried up inside him. Sanskrit - Yoni is the woman’s vulva, and the Lingam is the man’s penis Yoni massage Use Sexual Soulmate Pact Lingam massage   Performance Anxiety Once you understand anatomy and you start to really pleasure each other manually and orally, which gives you additional benefits, then it takes the focus off of intercourse, but it actually also makes intercourse even more pleasurable.   Polarity Testosterone and estrogen Masculine and feminine Estrogen is femininity, it’s all over the map, it’s going a million miles, it’s got its eyes on everything, it’s sensitive, it’s delicate, it’s fussy. Testosterone is straight ahead, goal-oriented, able to just be like in the zone much more easily.   Communication and Getting Your Needs Met Passionate lovemaking is emotionally-connected lovemaking. It’s when you feel totally safe with each other, when you can surrender to your pleasure together, when you can just lock your systems together and go off into joy, that you don’t know where their pleasure starts and your pleasure ends. For a woman especially, to be able to let go, she needs the conditions to be right outside the bedroom as well as inside the bedroom. Women want to be totally taken care of, but they also want some freedom. Women today are very emancipated. Men don’t understand how much romance is important to women, how much encouraging her, telling her you love her, taking her out for a walk in the countryside, rowing her in a boat on the lake, taking her for a hike. Moving a woman’s body moves her emotions, and she wants to feel an emotional connection to you. Men, often, what they want is recreational companionship. They want touch, affection, passion. Physical touch for them is love.   The Platinum Rule Treat your partner the way they want to be treated.   Behind Closed Doors With 20 percent of the effort, you get 80 percent of the results. Sexual Soulmates book You put intention on being a soulmate and learning how to do it.   Six Essentials for Connected Sex The Sexual Soulmate Pact   Lover’s Space Creating a sacred place for you to make love with each other, for slowing down, for getting the temperature right, the sheets soft, having plenty of towels, having organic lube, a pitcher of water, lighting the candles, putting on the music that appeals to you and gets you in the mood, wearing sexy lingerie, dancing for your partner, doing all the kinds of things that are just like getting back into play and making the environment really, really nice. The Soulmate Embrace   Embodied Sex You’re feeling her, you’re touching her skin, you’re not even stroking her skin, you’re touching below her skin to the tissue underneath the skin to give pleasure, you’re bringing pleasure to yourself in all these wonderful nerve receptors by touching her for your own pleasure. You’re stroking each other’s whole bodies, you’re not just using friction of genitals, which is kind of like unconscious sex. This is conscious sex.   Presence Presence in lovemaking is a mindset. It is just like meditation, where when you meditate, and then you start thinking about something else, and then you bring yourself back. If you’re worrying about having an orgasm, you’re not going to have one. Feeling Your Pleasure Letting go Sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system toggling Orgasms actually come out of you. They bubble up out of you like a spring bubbles up out of the ground. Polarity Masculine/feminine Reengage with the Soulmate Embrace Create a safe container for her to let go. Body shame, women as well as men. Atrophy sets in when you don’t make love   Erotic Playdates The more that you turn bedroom into play, the happier you are, and when you learn new things together, the beginner’s mind of meditation, that is really, really great. You can learn about female ejaculation. Men can learn male multiple orgasm. You can learn to have expanded orgasms.   Finding Time for Sex An hour is a quickie. It takes 20-30 minutes for your genitals to get engorged. You have to schedule it. You have to get a babysitter; you have to get the kids to bed early and get dinner done and make a commitment to it. Set a timer if you have to go somewhere so that you can come down from the oxytocin rush. Don’t make the goal about sex.     Deeper Dive Resources Organixx Supplements https://shop.organixx.com/search?q=sexual+health   Organixx Articles on Libido https://organixx.com/?s=libido   The Soulmate Embrace https://personallifemedia.com/soulmate-embrace/   The Sexual Soulmate Pact https://personallifemedia.com/sexual-soulmate-pact/   Susan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/   Susan’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover   Sexual Soulmates Book https://amzn.to/2X8nHMd   My Relationship Magic https://best.personallifemedia.com/relationship-magic-promo/?email_address=   Maca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidium_meyenii   Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao   Citrulline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrulline   L-Arginine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arginine   Tribulus Terrestris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris

Conni Ponturo and Patrina Wisdom – Presence and Self-AuthorityAired Monday, 18 March 2019, 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PSTRise. Amazing Woman. Rise.Interview Series Week 3We continue with Presence and Self-Authority which are the next 2 of the 8 Essential Powers of the feminine heart that are the future of success in leadership.Through these Author’s writings we will see how the qualities of the feminine heart manifests these particular essential powers. Experience unforgettable lessons from inspired mentors that will motivate you to liberate your own hidden capacities, deepen the clarity of your inner voice, and fulfill your highest destiny.*First half of the show we welcome Conni PonturoThe Essential Power of Presence“Presence comes into our world when we are ready to stand still and be in our power. The power comes from being excited to live in this moment and to allow yourself to be within the moment and listen.” Conni PonturoConni Ponturo is a leading authority in the field of pain-free living, which includes the power of creating a harmonious connection of mindset, emotions and body. Respected for her unique approach to Transformational Movement that merges Pilates, Meditation and Mindset, Conni Ponturo teaches her clients how to flourish at every stage and age of their life. To learn more about Conni Ponturo and her work visit: www.ConniPonturo.com and www.AbsolutePilatesUpstairs.com*Second Half of The Show we welcome Patrina WisdomThe Essential Power of Self-Authority“When we are not in our self-authority we lean towards recklessness. We abandon our sense of worth. Under-estimate our value, and feel disconnected from all that we are. But, when anchored in the power of self-authority, we consider, discern, and make choices that are in alignment centered and in harmony with our heart and our mind and our spirit.” Patrina WisdomPatrina Wisdom is an Amazon Bestselling author, speaker, Wealth Mentor, and creator of the Badass Bodacious Life Movement. She believes that in order to live a BadAss Bodacious Life you must connect with, embrace, and exercise every part of yourself.After losing her husband of 20 years to suicide in 2009 and learning that she was pregnant with her fourth child the same day, Patrina Wisdom took her personal story and decades of experience as an entrepreneur and business leader, and began the process of creating her Badass Bodacious Life. She helps Badass Mompreneurs stand in their personal power and create an emPOWERed life through Personal/Spiritual/Financial Development, Healthy Work/Life Balance and Sacred Self Care. Transforming busy Mom’s lives from stressed to blessed, tired to inspired, difficult to Joyful!About the Show: Rise. Amazing Woman. Rise. – Interview Series WeekDefining Our Destiny Evolving Our Futures.The essential powers of the feminine heart can and will transform the world!Make plans to tune-in throughout the month of March EVERY Monday (March 4th-25th at 9AM PST / 12PM EST).On each week’s episode you’ll hear from the contributing authors (Wendy L. Yost, Conni Brunner Ponturo, Theresa Wray, Patrina Wisdom, Pamela Nebeker, Christine Howard, Heather Salmon, Dena Breslin) of RISE AMAZING WOMAN RISE, a new and VERY TIMELY book that brings to light ways to grow our impact, unleash higher creativity, and rise in our capacity to define a more heart-centered, empowered destiny.Create your own Legacy!Buy the book today! Be part of creating a new destiny of women’s success in leadership!CLICK HERE: http://getbook.at/RiseAmazingWomanRise100% of the profits from the purchase of this book on AMAZON benefits the advancement of women and girls.Upcoming Events: AMAZING WOMAN RISE – Los Angeles, April 13, 2019Website Links : www.AmazingWomanNation.com / www.MarshEngle.com

The news that Mary was going to have a baby, and that baby would be the son of God, should have made Mary panic and fear. Instead, she praised God and focused on the call He placed on her life. Adam Barnett continues our Advent series, Presence, with the reminder that God has the ability to do the impossible. Revolutionary Presence Presence | Week 2 December 9, 2018 | Adam Barnett Luke 1:26-38 NIV In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God." "I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled." Then the angel left her. Luke 1:37 NIV For nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1:46-49 NIV And Mary said: "My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me—holy is his name. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 NIV Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things — and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. Luke 1:50-53 NIV His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. Luke 1:54-55 NIV He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors. Luke 1:46 NIV “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” God is the God of the impossible. God’s Presence changes everything. God is a promise keeper.

How do you take sex to the next level? Make it something that continually enlivens you - without resorting to gimmicks that are unsustainable at best, detrimental at worst? Can it become something that brings you to transcendence and bliss with your partner - as well as connecting you to a deep experience of the divine? And can you have these kinds of experiences in a way that’s sustainable, so that your sexual and sensual connection with your partner is always alive and vibrant? In today’s episode, we’re talking with Margot Anand, one of the world’s most well-respected tantra teachers. She’s author of “The Art of Sexual Ecstasy” as well as many other books on Tantra and awakening through sex. Margot Anand’s new book “Love, Sex, and Awakening” is an inspiring memoir that not only gives you a glimpse into her own personal journey - but also highlights some of the key components of making your sex life transformative - an awakening experience. Here are some of the essential highlights from our conversation - plus in today’s episode you also get to hear how Margot’s “The Art of Sexual Ecstasy” has had an impact on me personally as well. Margot Anand's approach to sexuality is positive, empowering, and life-affirming - and it will enable you and your partner to experience connection in profound, new ways. Presence: Presence is the key to sacredness, transcendence, and bliss. Work on mastering the ability to stay present with yourself, and your partner, as this is required to be a good lover and to have access to more sacred and intense dimensions of sexuality and sensuality. How do I enter into this sacredness? Finding the sense of the sacred in your sex life is not as difficult or inaccessible as you might assume. It is about remembering the basics and stripping away distractions. Begin by interrupting the consistent sense of ‘too-busy’ by dedicating 1-2 hours for pleasure. Shut down the internet, unplug the electronics, close the screens and the telephone and begin to create a sense of peace in your house. The heart will not be peaceful if the house is not. Sit opposite your partner, closing your eyes and taking a few deep breaths to help you enter into this time, this space, and your body. Open your eyes and say something along the lines of “I am here to create a sacred space of total presence and to be with you for the next 2 hours ready for whatever is here to grow between us”.  This is less technique, and more a return to source, in all its forms. Common misunderstandings:  Due to sex being such a cultural taboo, many people are walking around with no idea of what is possible when it comes to sex.  Check in with yourself- are you open to the idea that you can find ‘god’ in bed? What other limiting thoughts are you carrying? You do not have to be in the perfect relationship in order to enter into the world of Tantra. No! You don’t even have to be partnered. It comes down, instead, to a desire to wake up, and to grow. You don’t have to be in the perfect state of mind, or masterful in all things sex, tantric experiences are possible from where you are, and who you are, right now. Create a personal mantra- Lovemaking is one of the central places in people’s lives in which they experience intense projections, bad habits, fears, and struggles with letting go. For many people when they enter into a lovemaking session they are sooner or later confronted with a double path: the one going to the left says “it won’t be as good as yesterday, the kitchen is a mess, my back hurts, etc.” And sometimes we allow and follow this path of the mind. The other path, however, leads to much more satisfaction and success as it is the road of confidence, acceptance, humor, and openness. - So much of bad sex is caused by low self-esteem- so turn this around! Ask yourself where you want to get? What do you want to feel? What would incredible sex be? Creating a personal mantra to remind you of this is a wonderful way to help your mind shift to the right path. Find a statement unique and authentic to you that feels uplifting  and inspiring. “I am an orgasmic woman”, or “I am amazing in bed”, or “I am a passionate lover”, or “I am beautiful”, etc… Allow your mantra to evolve, to change day to day, but whatever it is, make it something you can lean into when you notice you are diverting yourself from trusting intimacy. Opening your central channel: Along with presence, a core aspect of tantra is the ability to open your central channel. The central channel is that middle meridian of the body that connects your sexual center in your pelvis with your crown chakra (crown of the head). This is not just an imaginary channel of energy, but a highway of nerves that can run energy from top to bottom, and back again. When you can open this channel your orgasmic energy becomes like a motor that travels from the pelvis/your sex to the navel, the heart, the throat, the third eye, and then the crown of the head. The higher levels of pleasure, those associated with skydancing/accessing divine/going beyond climax are all made possible when the energy is able to channel from the groin to the crown chakra, and then expanding beyond the physical body. The sexual energy is transformed into a very different kind of peak/climax in which the energy is now available to use in many ways as it is not limited to a linear progression. Practice sexual breathing: Begin by sitting opposite your partner, close but not touching. Start to breath into your pelvic, moving the breath, awareness, and energy up the central channel until you exhale it out at which point your partner inhales using the breath to help bring your sexual energy down their central channel, creating a loop. Experiment! This experience, when done slowly and with intention, can in itself bring you to a bliss point. Solo practice: Be in charge of your own bliss journey and aliveness. Sexual breathing is a wonderful experience to explore on your own too! Imagine your breath coming through your pelvis, and travelling up your body to the crown of your head, and then back down. Many people report that this practice helps to transform anger, to feel stronger, more centered, and more able to freely navigate complex emotions. In order to practice opening your central channel, begin by laying down with your knees towards the ceiling and the soles of your feet on the floor. Place your left hand on your vagina/penis with your right hand on top to ground down. Tighten your sex muscles and slowly move the breath through your sex and up the central channel, then exhale down while slowly relaxing and opening your sex muscles. Exploring your own sexual functioning, especially when it comes to learning how to get close to climax without full orgasm, is important to experience before, and in parallel, with practicing with your partner. Extend your staying power:  Sexual breathing and getting in tune with your central channel are the keys to increasing your capacity to get just to the point of climax without the push to ejaculatory orgasm. Sustaining pleasure to the point that you can get close to climax 6 times in a half-hour is all dependent on your ability to circulate the sexual energy through your body. Remember that letting go of immediate gratification/pleasure is the only way to build up to a bigger and more expansive sense of pleasure later on! The urge is very strong, and so it can be very helpful to make a commitment ahead of time when entering lovemaking that you are going to try to sustain pleasure without ejaculation. When to end? Some people wonder how they will ever know when to stop having sex without having the clarity of ejaculation. Don’t worry! It may be confusing at first not to have a clear ‘goal’, but with some adjustment you will learn to just know! Trust yourself and your body, or… set an alarm! Ask yourself: Can I cultivate being desireless in order to be a witness and be present for myself and for my partner even at the heights of my most desiring moment? Don’t forget to practice breathing, do yoga, stretch, dedicate time, turn off screens, cultivate sacredness, and choose presence. The sky's the limit! Dedicate one afternoon or evening each week to making love with your partner. In this time give each other 100% attention. Invest in each other. Once you have practiced some of the tools of tantra, and you take the time to meet each other in this way, the sky is the limit! Happy skydancing! A note about healing from sexual trauma: When someone experiences sexual trauma the body responds in a way that it will work to not feel anything in the area where pain occurred. There are many ways to work with the body to release the trauma and to find sensation again, however it must always be done with a very trustworthy other. This is deep and sensitive work and has the potential to heal, while also having the potential if not done with full integrity, to retrigger. Remember that while the body holds the painful memories in the tissues, nerves, and muscles, it also holds the potential to heal. Internal massage can sometimes help to release the tension and allow the person to reintegrate the part of their body they disconnected from in order to bear the abuse. Through this work the emotions come back (anger, sadness, fear, etc.) and sensitivity is restored as the tissues release the memories. **Please note that there are many resources available to you if you are interested in working through sexual trauma, or if you are interested in supporting the healing of your partner. Resources: Margot Anand’s Website Love Sex and Awakening on Amazon Art of Sexual Ecstasy on Amazon Workshops at Esalen with Margot Anand www.neilsattin.com/skydancing Visit to download the show guide, or text “PASSION” to 33444 and follow the instructions to download the show guide to this episode with Margot Anand! Our Relationship Alive Community on Facebook Amazing intro/outro music graciously provided courtesy of: The Railsplitters - Check them Out