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ARTArticleRelationship Trust Advice: How Transparent Do You Have To Be?Is it possible to be completely transparent in your relationship? In other words, how honest do you consistently need to be with your mate in order to enjoy strong and healthy trust? After all, aren't there times when telling the whole truth is simply unwise?
These questions relate to the ...ARTArticleRequest into the Yes: Helping Kids Want to CooperateI recently had a phone coaching session with “Janice” whose child routinely refused to do whatever he was asked by his mom or dad. In school, “Jesse” was cooperative most of the time, but at home, he couldn’t have been more resistant and challenging.
“Jesse, time to turn off the TV and start ...ARTArticleResponsible Risk TakingRaising resilient teenagers
Webster's dictionary defines resilience as "an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change". Teenagers learn to understand the depths of their resourcefulness and resilience through adverse conditions such as failure, disappointment, loneliness, grief and sadness.ARTArticleSave Money With Your KidsCutting back on expenses? Most families are.
Asking children to share the burden of spending less is a reasonable choice to make.
If you’ve lost your job and huge cuts need to be made, it’s reasonable to explain to children that the family will be making major cutbacks. The key is to reassure them that your family is safe, that you’re in control of the family finances and that their basic needs will be met.ARTArticleSelf Destructing Boyfriend Or Girlfriend Dumped You - How Do You Get Him Or Her Back?When you are dealing with someone who is self-destructing, it’s hard not to be sucked into the toxic interaction that is typical of this attraction.
And what do I mean by typical of this attraction?
The self-destructing person is attracted to you because you have that “strength” that the ...ARTArticleSex And Your CityThe long-awaited movie, Sex And The City, arrived at theatres around the world last month, smashing box-office records as throngs of women (and yes, lots of men too!) queued up for hours to witness the latest adventures of their modern-day heroines Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. ...ARTArticleSexercises for Genital Health and Sexual PleasureMany of us are engaged in various activities in the pursuit of physical fitness. We go to health clubs to tone up and strengthen our muscles so that we can look and feel better about ourselves. While the focus of this type of exercise conce
s itself with strengthening the exte
al muscles, for many practitioners of the sexual arts the focus expands to include the internal muscles used in sex. You see, weak sexual muscles not only compromise a man’s ability to provide complete sexual satisfaction, but they reduce the capacity for sexual pleasure and genital health for both men and women.ARTArticleSexual Chemistry - Sending and Reading Sexual SignalsHave you ever had a friend describe a really "hot' blind date for you, and you get all excited and eager to meet this wonder person only to come face to face with the person and zero, nothing, no sparks. The person is all that, but you are just not digging him or her.
Or have you ever found ...ARTArticleSexual Desire in Long-term Relationships: A Mind-Expanding 3-Question Quiz about SexWe hear it all the time, how sex in marriage or long-term relationships fades or dies out altogether. One or both partners lose their sexual desire. Passion is a forgotten memory. Making love becomes an obligation or an afterthought.
But does it have to be that way? Take this quiz and see ...ARTArticleSexual Hypocrisy - Why Can't We Just Get Real?Our present obsession with "holy" bonking (ooops... sorry, Sacred Sex) has become yet another obsession that borders the absurd.
In our frantic effort to justify why we should have more sex (with some emotion) in our lives we've managed yet again to climb to another level of hypocrisy.
As if ...ARTArticleShould I Go The Distance?Dear Coach Yvonne,
I met a very nice man 3 months ago and we're enjoying getting to know each other but here's the thing, we live 3,000 miles away and neither of us wants to move. We've seen each other a couple of times since meeting but that's about it. I'm wondering if I should pursue this or if I should let it go since I'm not moving and he's not moving. I haven't met a very nice man in a very long time that has the qualities that are important to me. What should I do?ARTArticleSizzling Sex Life: 5 Spicy Practices For Making Love HotWe all know it happens: A few years (or sometimes a few months!) into a relationship, sex can get boring, even with a partner that you still love in your heart. Like boiling away the flavor from a stick of cinnamon, you may find that the “heat” has evaporated from the bedroom.
But don’t toss ...ARTArticleSmokin' Hot MamaOver the past 46 years of my life, I have learned a thing or two about myself. There has been nothing extraordinary about me or my life circumstances. I am an ordinary woman who has lived an ordinary life. Well, except for the part of me that talks to dead people. But hey, other than that one little thing, I’m just a normal gal. That is another story for another time. In spite of my otherwise conventional life, I have come to a place where I can fully accept myself…all of me…the good, the bad, the ugly, the normal and the not-so-normal.ARTArticleSpiritual Parenting: New Ways to Build Core Values in ChildrenThere is a dilemma in parenting right now regarding the concept of “core values.” How does a parent build core values in a child? Let’s begin by talking about the innate and natural abilites that exist within a child by making the assumption that there is, in most people, the ability to self-regulate. We must understand this self-regulation mechanism and understand its value in parenting.
To begin with, let me present a metaphor. When a person stands up, there is something called “equilibrium” that takes place.ARTArticleStart Now to Change Your Bad Relationship HabitsHabits. We've all got them. Some of our habitual ways are beneficial and others can limit or even harm us.
Couples can also fall into habits or tendencies in their relationship. It might be the assumptions you each tend to make about one another. It could be the habitual ways you two usually ...ARTArticleTeaching Children About MoneyParents often wonder if and when their children should learn the value of money whether it is though an allowance or otherwise. My children, like many children in today’s material society, started asking for every toy under the sun as soon as they could talk. Of course, I admit that initially I enjoyed giving my kids the toys they asked for, but I soon learned that this is a bottomless money pit with no easy way out.
So as soon as my kids were able to count, I started teaching them how to count pennies, nickels and dimes.ARTArticleTeens Who Drink And Party HeavilyI was recently asked to do an “Ask the Expert” spot on Fox News about what parents can do about kids who party and drink heavily. Given the response from viewers, I decided to summarize some of the key points.
As I thought about what I wanted to say in the brief time allocated, I realized that ...ARTArticleTen Things People Don’t Know about TherapyI recently had a first session with a client who said, about halfway into the hour “Wow. I like you. I’m surprised.” I laughed, but I knew what the client meant. As a psychotherapist in private practice, I encounter a lot of people who waited far too long to come in for counseling because they didn’t understand what it was or how it could help them. When they do finally come in, I hear all the reasons why they haven’t come in sooner. There’s a lot of bad information out there.ARTArticleThe Alpha Connection: Connecting with Man, the Earth and GodARTArticleThe Creative Side of LoveIn art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.rn--Ralph Waldo EmersonARTArticleThe Effective ParentHere are Ten Principles of the Effective Parent:
1) Offer your children committed love. Let your children know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you love them and you will always love them no matter what. Make this a clear and consistent message.
2) Become the best educator of your children’s basic life skills that you can be. This is far more valuable than what you can ever buy them.
3) Teach your children to trust themselves more than anything else. Keep your children connected to their innate inner navigational equipment.ARTArticleThe Love Game - Masculine Women Feminine Men (Part 1)What happens when men don't act masculine and women don't act feminine?
But first, what is masculine and what is feminine?
Masculine and feminine are terms often equated with the biological equivalent of male and female, or social equivalent of man and woman. But in realty, the distinction ...ARTArticleThe Love Game - Masculine Women Feminine Men (Part 2)When it comes to the mating game, all men and women sub-consciously look for clues to each other's masculine and feminine qualities. But I wish they just stopped there. No! They test each other's qualities to the dizzy limit. n
A woman who as a girl-child was encouraged to express too much of ...ARTArticleThe Potency PrinciplesI believe its safe to say that very few of us have had any formal instruction in sexual intercourse. Let's face it, when it comes to the subject of sex, the majority of people appear to be unpardonably ignorant. If you think about it, most of what we have learned about sex comes to us from ...ARTArticleTHE SHORTCOMINGS OF FRICTION SEXIf you have paid careful attention, you may have noticed that ordinary friction sex, the kind of sexual exchange that most men employ, is characterized by a series of incessant, robotic, pelvic pumping actions combined with rapid breathing. There is no doubt that this is the fast and hard version of sex that has been glorified in pornography and elsewhere.ARTArticleThree Lessons to Teach Your Teen About SexIn a sad way, I find it somewhat amusing when mass media and some parents routinely propose or actually go ahead in giving their teens leniency in regards to breaking universal rules and values around dating and sex. I find this amusing because I routinely have young girls come in to see me or ...ARTArticleThree Ways to Handle Your Child Throwing a Tantrum in PublicPicture this: A ubiquitous cashier’s counter at a grocery store. A mother and her young child (let’s go with five years of age), have pulled up with their shopping cart by the cashier’s counter. As the cashier begins ringing up the mother’s items, the child spots an assortment of candy bars on ...ARTArticleTips To Free Yourself From The Clutches Of JealousyHave you ever traced your genealogical roots? Perhaps you've conducted searches about your ancestors using the internet or a library's database. It can be fun and quite interesting to find out if your long ago relatives fought in wars, traveled to distant lands with their belongings in a ...ARTArticleTips To Move Closer To The One You Love Even In The Midst Of Life ChangesChange. Every single one of us goes through a myriad of changes not only in our lives but in our day to day existences. Some changes are pretty small and insignificant. Perhaps your favorite coffee shop stopped carrying your preferred blend of java and you have to make another choice. Other ...ARTArticleTRANSFORMING MALE SEXUAL ENERGY INTO SPIRITUAL POWEROne thing is certain, Tantric sex is not for everyone. Tantra requires a level of consciousness that is based on energetic and spiritual principles. In a nutshell, the foundation of Tantric sexual practice is learning to generate copious amounts of orgasmic energy, and directing it up the energetic pathways that target the spiritual faculties that reside in the brain. It is in the brain where sexual energy, the creative energy from which we all sprang, transforms consciousness. In this way, a new perceptual reality can be born that gives birth to Unity Consciousness (Oneness).