What is porn addiction? What do you do with the urge to look at beautiful women? How do you act on that normal instinct? Are your actions satisfying to you or do you feel less pleasure, and more intimacy problems, as time goes on? What if you could learn how to fully release the tension… Read More »
Nine Ways You Can Choose To Be Happy in Building Intimacy. Foster and Hix’s book Applied to Healthy Marriage
Rick Foster and Greg Hix have written a wonderful book titled How We Choose To Be Happy. They interviewed hundreds of people and found nine choices, qualities, or states that generate, uncover, and evoke happiness in people. I have added additional comments regarding intimacy to their main choices below. 1) Intention. Foster and Hix found… Read More »
Healthy Marriage, Trust, and Couples Counseling: Build Intimacy Without Checking for Emails and Phone Calls.
Have you found yourself looking at your partner’s emails or phone call list? It’s so normal to “just have to know”, so a quick check can’t hurt anything. Or, can it? Think about the last fight you had with your partner when they checked your emails, or calls made on your phone, without your permission.… Read More »
More Oxygen for Good Sexual Intimacy: Three IBP Breathing Tips
Have you ever wondered what makes for really good sexual intimacy? The years of training in Integrative Body Psychotherapy taught me three basic tips for high quality sex: ground in the body, stay in contact, and increase your breathing or oxygen together. First, ground in the body. What does this mean? Learn in the office… Read More »