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Are Your Matching Holiday Jammies a Libido Killer or Festive Foreplay? Sex and the Holiday Season

Sexual desire is about motivation to enter a sexual space with your intimate partner. Contrary to what we see in the movies and in romance novels, problems with sexual desire are normal and common. Research conducted by Dr. David Schnarch with almost 20,000 people indicates that virtually everyone …

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The 7 C’s of Thanksgiving: Approaching Family Togetherness with Grace

“If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” Ram Dass These wise words from a spiritual guru encourage us to approach the holiday season with a serving of humility that is greater than or equal to our serving of pumpkin pie. Family will always have the power to stir us up …

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15 of My Favorite Books about Love and Marriage

Here we are! Week #4 of your Month of Reading Bravely. Ahh! Books about love and marriage. These are my jam! It was no easy feat to limit myself to just 15. In these books you will find research, paradigms, perspectives, stories, and ideas about what it takes to create and sustain love across time. …

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I am a relationship therapist, teacher, author, sought-after speaker, retreat leader, and a passionate believer in the life-changing power of love.

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  • When you fall in love with someone INTERDEPENDENCE is par
    4 weeks ago by dr.alexandra.solomon When you fall in love with someone, INTERDEPENDENCE is par for the course. I lean on you. You lean on me. My choices impact you. Your choices impact me. When we build a life together, we become a WE. That’s good and delicious. And we can weather life’s storms a little more easily when we multiply life by the power of two (*Indigo Girls*). *** BUT couples and giving advice is tricky business. Take this scenario: Partner A is launching a new project. Partner B sees all kinds of things they think Partner A could be doing differently or more
  • Blind spots The question isnt whether or not you have
    1 week ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Blind spots. The question isn’t whether or not you have blind spots. Newsflash, we all do. The question is whether you can explore your blind spots with self-compassion and humility. *** Love and feedback go hand in hand. If we can’t make the space between us feel safe enough to share observations, reflections, hurts, and longings, we set the stage for disconnection and resentment. Bleh. We have to cultivate an atmosphere in which people can give and receive feedback. *** Here’s how it looks in action: Partner A feels hurt by Partner B. A’s job is to bring that hurt
  • Isnt this the essence of love? Knowing that youve been
    1 month ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Isn’t this the essence of love? Knowing that you’ve been here, you are here, and you will be here... that’s essential. ~Commitment, spoken and enacted, helps us feel brave enough to be vulnerable, to peel back our layers, exposing more and more of our tender spots. ~AND at the very same time, we can never reduce the risk of loss down to 0. I can love you just right and I *still* might lose you. ***** If we can’t find ways to tolerate love’s central paradox, we’re at risk of “acting out.” One of the big ways we act out
  • Attention Hopeless Romantics please dont go changing Our world needs
    2 weeks ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Attention Hopeless Romantics: please don’t go changing. Our world needs your passionate heart, your courageous vulnerability, and your belief in LOVE. And please know that you are NOT alone. Craving authentic connection is everyone’s default mode. It’s just that some people have gotten lost~~ *in their wounds *in toxic cultural messages that equate gentleness with weakness *in these phones that offer us too damn many options Stay the course, Hopeless Romantics. Keep hoping. Keep leading with love. Keep sharing yourself with the world. ... just also keep practicing your healthy boundaries. Read the feedback so that when you get naked
  • Two phrases that just dont work and must be permanently
    3 weeks ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Two phrases that just don’t work and must be permanently banned from our vocabularies... “Calm down.” “Cheer up.” *** In order to cultivate happy and healthy relationships, we gotta be ready, willing, and able to lead with love. Empathy FIRST. Redirection/coaching/advice LATER. *** Empathy says, “You look like you’re having a hard time.” Empathy asks, “How can I support you?” *** This shit is simple but it is not easy. Your work is to figure out what blocks your ability to trust the power of your warmth. For some of us, it’s because when someone we care about is hurting,

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