Straight talk, up-to-date information and resources for individuals and couples about sexual addiction, cybersex addiction, sexual anorexia, sexual desire and sexual dysfunction.
Join Aaron Alan, MFT, CSAT as he talks to you about “Assessing and Treating Love Addiction,” on Friday, August 27, 2010 at the Center for Healthy Sex. Enjoy a cup of coffee and pastry as Aaron takes you through the mysterious process known as Love Addiction, which is showing up in our practices more frequently.
Join Kelly McDaniel, author of Ready to Heal: Women Facing Love, Sex and Relationship Addiction, at the Center for Healthy Sex, July 23-25, for an intimately honest and emotionally evocative exploration into the Four Cultural Beliefs about sex and love. Call 310-843-9902 to reserve your space now!
Participants will explore and dismantle four cultural beliefs that women inherit about sex, love, and feminity growing up in America.
“I must be good to be worthy of love”
“If I am sexual, I am bad”
“I’m not really a woman unless someone wants me sexually or romantically”
Are you interested in the ways women orgasm? If so, why? If not, why not?!
There are a lot of myths about female orgasm and little understanding about female sexual arousal. The truth is that all women are NOT created equal in this area. Each woman has distinctly different patterns of arousal and needs to understand her own body so that she can bring herself to orgasm. Once a woman is familiar with her sexuality in intimate ways and what her sexual preferences are, she can then communicate them to her partner.
Dyspareunia is the term that refers to any recurrent genital pain that women experience when they have sexual intercourse.Vaginal pain can develop into a cycle of anticipation of pain which can then cause physical tension that will maintain or increase pain.Women will then naturally avoid having sex in order to avoid the pain.Possible causes of dypsareunia include functional, medical, and psychological conditions.
When sex is hot and heavy with your partner, there’s nothing to talk about. Over time your sexual attraction, libido, desires, and interests change. If you don’t talk about it sooner rather than later, you could find yourself in martial gridlock.
Check out this article and start talking about sex daily - you won’t be sorry!
30% of young and middle-aged women go through a period of little to no sexual desire. While some women say that they’re O.K. with not having sex again, often times that’s not true.
Lori Brotto is one of the world’s leading experts on hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women. Through her research and experience, she now instructs women on how to be mindful of the sensations in their bodies, leading them to experience themselves as highly sexual, erotic beings. In her thinking, desire takes time…
If you are female and struggle with low sexual desire, we can help! 310-335-0997
Are you married to a sex addict or in relationship with one? Have you recently learned that your partner has been cheating on you? Have you already been through the pain of discovery and need support to keep working on yourself and the relationship?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, join Rebecca Ishida, MFT beginning January 13, 2010 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m for our weekly partner’s group.
Support from others who are struggling with the pain and heartbreak of betrayal in a safe environment will help you to heal. You will feel better and stronger when you can express your feelings, understand what sex addiction is, who you are in relation to it, the effects it has had on you, and whether or not you should stay in your relationship.
In the 10th and 11th centuries in in India, sex was was thought to be a path to spirituality.
Today, sex has been denigrated to a fast-food item, to be consumed strictly for the high it brings without the heart and soul of exploration into the divine.
In their article “The Spirituality of Sex,” Jurriaan Kamp and Tijn Touber take you through the stages of change sex has undergone over the ages. They bring us full circle back to sex as a meaning-making meeting of two souls for the purposes of personal growth and development.
If you are female and want to know more about how you tick, if you have a female child, or if you are in relationship with a female I HIGHLY recommend you read “The Female Brain” by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Dr. Brizendine simply and clearly lays out the differences between the male and female brains and makes it easy to understand. She finally lays to rest the argument about nature vs. nuture and gives scientific evidence for why women are the way they are - versus just being from “Venus.”
The updated and new edition of the book that changed the way we think about romance, love and intimacy is now available!
In the expanded 3rd edition of her best selling classic Is It Love or Is It Addiction?, psychologist Dr. Brenda Schaeffer offers readers an expert prognosis of love addiction, what it is, what it is not, how to identify it, and most important, how to get you out of it and into healthy love. It includes:
two new chapters -Romance Addiction and Sexual Addiction;
up to date information on the biological and psychological basis of addictive behaviors;
the role technology plays;
the role of trauma;
new stories; and
an updated self help section.
If you are ready to move towards a healthier love life and join the thousands whose lives have already been changed by this book, click here: www.itsallaboutlove.com
