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Five Ways to Improve Intimacy

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. ~...

Blooms from Brokenness

A picture that has imprinted itself in my mind quite often lately is that of a well overflowing. The water causes flowers to bloom all around the well, bringing new life and beauty to ground that was once barren. Consider...

Five Ways to Love YOU!

"To love yourself is to understand you don't need to be perfect to be good." ~ Unknown As a mother of three, I have seen my body go through a lot of changes. I’ve had seasons of loving my body,...

Five Ways to Cope with Anxiety

Does even hearing the word "anxiety" make your heart beat faster? This word comes from the Latin term anxius, meaning “solicitous, uneasy, troubled in mind,” in turn derived from angere or anguere, meaning “to choke, squeeze” and “torment, cause distress”...

The Struggle to Be Myself

I have begun pressing into this idea that I am enough, exactly the way I am. It seems like almost from birth, we’re surrounded by so much pressure to be something different than what we were created to be—to look...

Vaginismus | Why do my Muscles Tighten?

Let’s explore the relationship between vaginismus and a part of the human brain called the limbic system. This important area is the root of the internal alarm that mistakenly alerts the body of danger, causing the vaginal muscles to tighten...