by Sheryl Paul | Aug 11, 2019 | Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality |
Because we’ve all grown up in a relationship culture predicated on the romantic ideal, we enter relationships with the following imprints and fantasies about love, sex, and attraction: Love should be easy. Sex should be effortless, which means simultaneous...
by Sheryl Paul | Jan 6, 2019 | Sexuality |
Sacred Sexuality isn’t only about sexuality; it’s about our relationship to our bodies, our creativity and our aliveness. When we learn to rinse away shame layers so that we can inhabit and appreciate the bodies we’re in (instead of the one...
by Sheryl Paul | Dec 30, 2018 | Relationships, Sexuality |
If you’re familiar with relationship anxiety, you know that it doesn’t take much for a flyaway thought to send you into a tailspin of anxiety that then leads you to question if you’re with the right person. This thought could be, “I’m not...
by Sheryl Paul | Dec 23, 2018 | Sexuality |
As always when I run my Sacred Sexuality course, I was blown away by the vulnerability and honesty on the forum on this last round. Where else do we share our deepest, darkest thoughts and feelings around sexuality, the ones we think we’re the only ones having,...
by Sheryl Paul | Jun 17, 2018 | Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality, Sexuality Collection |
One of the spokes of any anxiety wheel is cognitive distortions: the assumptions, misunderstandings, and expectations we form about love, relationships, romance, parenting, sexuality, and nearly every realm of being human. Because we’re not explicitly taught how...
by Sheryl Paul | Jun 10, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Sexuality |
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.” ― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman’s Body and Soul We’re a neck-up...
by Sheryl Paul | Jun 3, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Sexuality, Sexuality Collection |
Clients often say to me, “My partner isn’t a great lover. He or she doesn’t know how to touch me like past partners have.” To which I respond, “Maybe that’s true, but if your own anxiety, current life circumstances, and sexual/body...
by Sheryl Paul | Jan 7, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality |
I hear a lot of whispered truths from women about their sex lives. I hear that they don’t like kissing, that they haven’t had sex in months (or longer), that they would be perfectly fine never to have sex again. But the statement I hear more than any other...
by Sheryl Paul | Jan 1, 2018 | Sexuality |
When I launched the first round of Sacred Sexuality: A 40-day course for women to heal body shame and ignite desire last June 2017 I had no idea what to expect on the forum. Would the members feel reticent to share their innermost fears, secrets, questions, and...
by Sheryl Paul | Dec 24, 2017 | Anxiety, Sexuality |
With the latest exposure of sexual assault, abuse, and violation in this country, there can be no doubt that our culture suffers from profound sexual dysfunction and illness. Many of us, especially women, have been privately aware of the toxicity for a long time and...
