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Knowing How To Spring Into Cycles That Benefit You
Cycles in life come and go as we grow and change, Last month was one long celebration of life. I felt the love pour in
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Consent and Gender Role Conditioning
I love exploring gender roles, the complexity of who we are, how we feel and relate to ourselves and one another. My work helps people
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Act of Resilience
Our senses are a resource in helping us build more emotional resilience. Beyond touch, taste, smell, sound, sight, I am adding movement, intuition, visualization, thoughts,
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How to Have Ease When Your Identity Changes?
Identity changes is just one of the many topics Jessica Graham, author of Good Sex: How to Get off without Checking Out, and I touched
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What is your partner asking for when they say “I want to hear more words of affirmation?”
Words of affirmation and love just in time for Valentines /Palentines day! This special love day is an opportunity to reflect on your chosen way
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Writing As A Tool For Healing
Searching for a tool for healing? Writing is one of my favorites! I was recently interviewed for an article about sending platonic valentines this year.
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What is Graysexual?
1. What does it mean to be graysexual? Most images in dominant culture ‘romcoms’ consider romance and sex to be an essential factor in choosing
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Benefits of Edging – The lost art of delayed gratification
Both men and women can edge, though often it is used in relation to men bringing yourself to the brink of orgasm and backing off,
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Self-care: What if you were your best friend?
How are you being tender with yourself during this distressing time? While sheltering in place, as we try to find ground and a new rhythm,
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Who Do You Want To Be?
Asking who do I want to be today, tomorrow and a year from now is always valuable to reflect on. Who do you want to
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Is Trauma A Life Sentence?
Trauma isn’t the province of an unfortunate few but the greatest public health crisis we face today. As a trauma survivor and therapist who has
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What is Sexual Freedom?
Sex is a paradox: How can something that’s the source of trauma also be a pathway towards transcendence? LAIDopen endeavors to answer this conundrum. In
LATEST PODCAST EPISODES
Ep. 108 The Secret Life of Dreams with Bonnie Buckner
This season, dreams are really on my mind. I’ve been thinking about how they shape our creativity, our healing, and the subtle ways our bodies
Ep 107 Psilocybin and the Future of Healing with Tania de Jong
Welcome back to LaidOPEN Podcast. In this week’s episode, we explore altered states of consciousness, sound, healing, and the legacy of ancestral trauma. My guest
Ep. 106 Dreaming Your Life Into Beeing: Healing, Intuition and Animism (Part 2) with Ariella Daly
*Trigger warning: this episode contains discussions of sexsual assault* In part 2 of this powerful conversation on LaidOPEN, Charna sits down again with Ariella Daly: dream
