Insights and advice

A conversation I had with one of my Pleasure Principles Grads got me thinking...⁠

When and why did gossip get such a bad reputation?

These are some things I still hear a lot...⁠

"My husband wouldn't like me gossiping about our problems to my friends" ⁠

"You are the first person I have ever told ...

Hands up if you struggle with low libido, lack of desire, or disinterest in sex and pleasure…

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If you don’t really care when or if you ever have sex again, you’re going to want to read this.

Sex and pleasure are complicated, intricate, and nuanced. I have yet to meet a woman who’...

Are you in a relationship where there is a significant difference in how much sex you both would like?

Mismatched libidos are so common and something so many of the women I work with experience!

I know a lot of women get the “blame” for being the lower drive partner, but just as many of you are st...

We’ve all heard the story (or maybe you’re living it right now)…the honeymoon phase is over, you’ve been together for 3 or 5 or 10 years, maybe there are some kids running around, you stop going on dates, you start living separate lives to keep everything afloat, intimacy becomes a peck on the cheek...

We talk about pleasure in and out of the bedroom. We talk a lot about sex...

But sex is more than just getting to the point. Pleasure is a lifestyle. A mindset. 

I had some interesting realizations while I was forced into celibacy from a surgery plus post-partum recovery…for 10 weeks total, that I...

Foundations: when you have drifted so far apart from your partner, you don’t know where to start

Most of you know that I am feminist as hell.

Not because I hate men. And definitely not because I am unaware of the struggles that men face in today’s society. I see the way our culture holds women AND...

“When a baby is born, so is a mother”

I am no stranger to mental health struggles.

I know what it feels like to fight the feelings that I am not good enough. I am not enjoying this.

I remember being in 1^st year psychology and reading the DSM-V diagnostic criteria for generalized anxiety. It was l...

 This blog is for the women who have fears about becoming a mother.

We so often talk about the “joys of motherhood” the “I always knew I was meant to be a mother”, but we rarely talk about the fears…

Am I going to be good enough?

Am I going to be happy?

How am I going to keep it all ...

It has come to my attention that there is a trend going around online (mostly with young adults and teens) about “innies” and “outies”. 

No, we’re not talking belly buttons. 

We’re talking vulvas. 

Men are sharing their “preferences” and women are sharing their elation that “thank god they have a...

Myth: low testosterone is the reason for low libido in women and the cure.

Fact: Low testosterone MAY be a contributing factor to low libido and sexual dysfunction for some women (get proper testing done from your doctor), but it is not the only or most likely contributing factor. 

Yes, it is true...