Intimate Knowledge
These are the books I most often recommend to clients who are seeking knowledge to enhance relationships and sexual experiences.
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Sexual Desire
Eroticism
Communication
Consensual Non-monogamy
Trauma Healing
ADHD
Pelvic Pain & Sexual Wellness
Kink
Sacred Sexuality
“Much of partners’ most intimate interactions are communicated body-to-body on an implicit, i.e., unconscious level, largely through facial and bodily micro-expressions.”
-Stella Resnick
“A way to describe relaxation at the deepest level is accepting what is - resting with what is.”
-Wise & Anderson
“When our partners are able to articulate the ways that we are special and valuable to them, our interpersonal self-worth is supported.”
-Jessica Fern
“We know from research that women and men get so much more from sex than just physical gratification (like feeling loved and feeling safe).”
-Sarah Hunter Murray
“We have the power to live with joy and contentment by responding to our suffering with kindness.”
-Kristen Neff
“When we give from the heart, we do so out of the joy that springs forth whenever we willingly enrich another person’s life.”
-Marshall B Rosenberg
“Women often say they need to feel emotionally connected before having sex. Men often say that sex facilitates emotional connection.”
-McCarthy & McCarthy
“If you think of your sexual interactions as cooperative, healthy, playful, and mutually pleasurable, you will feel confidence, comfort, closeness, and satisfaction.”
-Metz & McCarthy
“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy.”
-Sharon Salzberg