Loving Well Archives - Maurice Leavitt

31 Jul 2025

The Emotional Intelligence Behind Relational Honesty

by Maurice | posted in: Compassion, Loving Well, Relationship, spiritual practice, Vulnerability | 0

The Paradox of Truth Telling There’s a pattern I’ve come to know—not just in others, but also in myself. In moments where honesty is asked for, but not truly welcomed. Especially when it begins to press on something tender, inconvenient, or unresolved. People say they want honesty. That it matters. … Read More

21 May 2025

Nothing to Prove, Everything to Give

by Maurice | posted in: Compassion, Heart Opening, letters to self, Loving Well, Relationship, Retirement, Spirituality | 1

For most of my life, I believed love, closeness and affection had to be earned. That I needed to be successful and do something impressive to be accepted and loved. If I worked hard enough, performed well enough, maybe then I’d be worthy. I am paying the cost of that … Read More

19 Mar 2025

Remembering Jay – First Yahrzeit

by Maurice | posted in: Adventure, Death and Mortality, Family, Hospice, Loving Well | 0

I sit here and write this at “The Much Room Cafe” in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I like to come here because it has wide open space outdoors with big trees and a waterfall. But today something is different. I am listening to the sound of singing cicadas. A circadian rhythm, … Read More

1 Apr 2018

Our Becoming…

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Loving Well, Openness, Restorative Relationship | 0

What is it like to be a human being? To experience this life as it is in all it’s “beingness”? How do we perceive ourselves, each other and the world around us? We create, design and obtain the material things around us and think we have an idea of how … Read More

4 Sep 2016

How We Choose To See Others Is How We See Ourselves

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Heart Opening, Loving Well, Restorative Relationship, Sacred Sexuality, spiritual practice | 0

We are the universe’s creations and so is every person that we look upon regardless of the past history or preconceived images we might hold in our minds towards another. Humans are born with split minds… an egoic mind and spirit mind. Because of that, we get to make a … Read More

31 Jul 2016

The Restorative Relationship Experience

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Ask For What You Want, Eros, Ethics, Loving Well, Restorative Relationship | 0

After reading Stanley Siegal’s Book, Your Brain On Sex. I wanted to write about his “restorative relationship” experience and how we can learn to engage with each other in a place of great vulnerability based on intimacy, respect, trust and honesty. Siegal’s preference is to give attention to our self-awareness, … Read More

17 May 2016

The Inter-Marriage of the Line/Circle

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Archetypes, Eros, Heart Opening, Loving Well, Masculine and Feminine, Mysticism, Tantra | 0

One of the tantric living principles is the “Intermarriage”. The intermarriage of the opposites that bring possibility for unity and infinity. These opposites in the inner marriage represent our dualistic human nature and is helping us evolve to get us to this reality of where we are today. We are … Read More

5 Aug 2015

Sex IS Ethics!! The Driving Force of Our Existence

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Eros, Ethics, Loving Well, Mysticism, Truth | 0

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 degraded and use sex as degradation. People take the worst forms of sexuality and then in their mind, what emerges, … Read More

19 Jul 2014

An Evolution Into Post-Conventional Relationship

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Loving Well, Post Conventional Relationship, Relationship Types, Sacred Sexuality | 0

What relationship type do you adhere to? Conventional monogamy…open relationship… polyamory… relationship anarchy… non-monogamy… and what I am going to call… post-conventional relationship? With all the talk out there about how human beings aren’t meant for monogamous relationships, there are many other labeled options. Each one of these options is … Read More

26 Apr 2014

Relationship as Spiritual Practice

by Maurice Isaiah | posted in: Compassion, Loving Well, spiritual practice | 0

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 body/heart connection and personal enlightenment, we are experiencing and experimenting with different ways of being with our and each others … Read More

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