Subscribe: iTunes | RSS Direct Download (Right click to download) Another episode of the podcast is here! This week, Tracey and I are continuing our conversation from last week, debunking some myths floating around about sex, sexual pleasure, and our bodies. We decided to continue this discussion after the House of Representatives passed the healthcare bill last week — a bill that left …
Curious & Curiouser Podcast, Episode 7: Sex and Desire
Sex and desire. These are the topics for this week’s podcast episode. (Spicy!) Tracey and I started this podcast because we wanted a place to have honest, unfiltered conversations, to talk about things that get pushed aside or pretended away or ignored because they might lead to discomfort or uncertainty. Well, I think we might have nailed it (pun intended) …
Let’s Stop Pathologizing Anxiety, Shall We?
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ~ Albert Einstein Is anxiety always pathological? I think not. As someone with a previous history of panic attacks that seemed to arise out of nowhere, I can say that I am very familiar …
Announcing the Curious & Curiouser Podcast
Oh hey! Guess what? I started a podcast! I know! I’m super excited, too. This project was birthed out of a random tea date with a friend, Tracey, who also happens to be a brilliant woman with a private therapy practice here in Portland, Oregon. [Go here or here to learn more about her practice(s).] After wanting to secretly start …
I Don’t Know Either
We’re all searching for some sort of certainty except that certainty isn’t something that exists in most cases. Even in science, something is true only until it isn’t. Take last week, for example, when two major discoveries were made about how the body functions. The first demonstrated that the cerebellum — a large structure located at the back of the …
You Don’t Have to Be Certain to Be Helpful
I’ve decided that being a relatively content human is often about learning how to hold two contradictory truths in your brain at the same time without imploding. What do I mean by this? Well, let’s start with an example — namely, me. Because I am a total contradiction in so many ways. I am largely a science-y, show me the …
New Body, Old Programming: Why It’s Ok to Love Your Body Regardless of Your Size
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ~Charles Bukowski Earlier this week, a few hours after waking up, I made the rare (in my case) decision to jump on the scale in my bathroom and find out what I weighed on that particular day. Why? I seriously have no idea. Curiosity, I suppose. It had been over a …
On Breaking Out of the Arbitrary Success Box
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about identity. About how we define ourselves. About how we define success. About how we determine our worth in a world that sees our value as individuals through the lens of some seriously questionable criteria. And a shockingly soulless list of …
Make Your Joy Non-Negotiable
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ~Desmond Tutu To say that I have been feeling a general lack of hope or positivity or joy over the past few weeks would be to greatly underrepresent how awful I have actually felt much of the time. Because …
We’re All in this Together
I have been relatively quiet in this space over the past couple of weeks, not wanting to allow what’s happening politically to dominate my website, as my overall goal here is to provide (hopefully) useful insights on how to live a healthier and more fulfilled life. The truth is, however, that what’s happening politically in our country right now has …