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Learning to Live Undivided | Intimacy, Desire & The Work of Staying
This essay traces the arc from erotic hunger to relational depth, exploring shame, emotional inflexibility, and what it truly takes to sustain intimacy. It reflects on integration, staying when certainty…
Fresh From The Page
The newest pieces asking to be written. These may or may not fit neatly into a category — but they’ve come through anyway.
Men’s Loneliness & Brotherhood: The Return to Ourselves
For twenty years I’ve watched men rebuild their lives through brotherhood, honesty, and emotional truth. A personal look at men’s loneliness, the cost of traditional masculinity, and how men’s circles…
The Anatomy of Desire & Shame
Every human desire is neutral; shame is what we learn. The Anatomy of Desire & Shame looks at how culture shapes male vulnerability and how healing begins when we stop…
The Currency of the Heart
Trust, honesty, and attention are the currency that binds us. When communication is withheld, relationships hollow out. This essay explores how service, family ties, and romantic love rise—or fall—on emotional…
To Be Heard & Be Seen: Attention and Affection
In a divided world, true repair begins with how we attend to one another. Exploring distrust, the generosity of attention and affection, the humility of receiving, and the moral evolution…
Early Traces: Where The Voice Began
Where it all started—raw thoughts, journal-style entries, spiritual inquiry, and early reflections.
Intimate-Compassionate Conversation and Shadow
Entering into intimate/sexual space with others requires an awareness in communicating our thoughts to others without shaming or blaming the other. It also requires a compassionate effort in receiving others…
Vulnerability in “Sexing”
Vulnerability…what does it mean? It means getting outside the protective ego and exposing your weaknesses and your desires in the face of being destroyed. If you want to have great…
Sacred Sexuality…Above and Beyond Intention…Surrender
The act of the sexual comes from the sacredness of what two people bring together. The sacredness lies in their intention. If there is bad intention..there is rape, it is…
Touch, Trust & Tenderness
Essays that dig into the terrain of intimacy, erotic honesty, vulnerability, and the shadows we carry.
Sex IS Ethics!! The Driving Force of Our Existence
Why it’s so hard to enter into the territory of “Sex IS Ethics”? Why is it so taboo? Sex is used in such crazy and debilitating ways. People can be…
The BDSM Mysticism – Domination and Submission
We live in a culture of sexuality where people can be confused around their desire to engage in the acts of dominating/submission (d/s). Some people swear by the d/s lifestyle…
Relationship as Spiritual Practice
Modern-day relationships are challenging and full of opportunities for increased personal awareness and growth. As our society enters a time of transition from the ego and the thinking mind to…
Intimate-Compassionate Conversation and Shadow
Entering into intimate/sexual space with others requires an awareness in communicating our thoughts to others without shaming or blaming the other. It also requires a compassionate effort in receiving others…
Intimacy Without Control: Keeping an Open Heart in a Mistrustful World
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Modern relationships offer more freedom than ever, yet many of us feel increasingly exhausted by uncertainty, dating culture, and emotional risk. Presenting how our desire for clarity and safety can quietly become an attempt to control vulnerability itself — and what it means to keep an open heart in a mistrustful world.… Read More