52 Mistakes Project – A Love Letter to Myself

by Kathy Caprino

Bottom line – “Embracing and loving who I am and what I’ve done is not a fixed state- it’s a long work in progress.”

As many of my friends know, I’ve immersed myself in a 9-year life reinvention, and shifted from a miserable and chronically ill corporate professional to an author, consultant, speaker and entrepreneur who absolutely loves what she does for a living and what she’s focused on, despite the enormous challenges.

It’s been one heck of a ride, with pitfalls, bumps, highs and transformations, that I barely recognize myself from the individual I was 10 years ago. The core essence of me is still there, of course, but there’s been so much shifting and morphing that now I see much more clearly what I truly value and need to have in my life and work and family experience. I “get” myself a lot more deeply than I did before. […]

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Mindful Meditations for Mothers

by Rachel Snyder

Libido

Your sex life is not gone, it is just away. Wherever you think your libido might have run off to, it will be back. Believe it or not, the day will come when you will feel surges of passion again, when you will find your partner exceedingly attractive once more, when you will remember that babymaking is a means, not just an end. Right now, you may find it hard to differentiate between hot sex and wet sox. Quiet attempts at arousal may be no match for your snoring. As remote as it appears, the time will come when you will gladly trade hours of uninterrupted sleep for long,  languid lovemaking under a low-hung crescent moon. As outrageous as it may now seem, the phrase, “Oh, Baby!” will take on new meaning. The adults will reclaim the night. The morning. The afternoon. And your libido? Missing in action no more.

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Ah, February (An Anti-Romantic Love Essay)

by Andrea Lynn

Ah, February. The month of love. Spare me. Always my least favourite holiday, Valentine’s Day, edging out New Year’s Day by a whisker. Both holidays of forced expression of love, or joy, both awkward for the singletons at the party or restaurant, surrounded by the coupled. […]

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Make Your Own Love Potion

by Dr. Barb Depree

“I just want to want sex again.”

I can’t tell you how many of my patients have expressed — in one way or another — this simple desire for the desire they experienced in their 20s and 30s, when their bodies were flooded with procreative hormones.

Wouldn’t it be great if I could mix up a love potion to send home with them and to share with you here? Some powerful concoction of roots and herbs perhaps, a magic elixir guaranteed to bring it all back? […]

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Guest Blog Post: A Valentine’s Day Salute to Parenthood’s Impact on Marriage

by Len Filppu

This Valentine’s Day, I’d like to put in a good word or two about marriage. Statistical studies show that married men live longer than single men.

I’m not sure about marriage’s impact on wives (I’m afraid to look), but as a husband who became a first time dad in midlife, I’m happy to subscribe to this notion. You see, my children are pre-teens, and I still have plenty of work ahead preparing them to be able to make a great living in order to support my dreamed and schemed about lavish retirement lifestyle. (Just kidding.) […]

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Heart Facts: How Well Do You Know Yours?

by Beverley Golden

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, everywhere we look we see the signs. Roses, doves and lovebirds. Of all the symbols we associate with Valentine’s Day, the heart is the one that most defines it. Juicy, plump and bulging red hearts adorn all things related to this holiday, devoted to love. Perfect heart images appear, almost magically, everywhere on everything, moments after the Christmas season has ended. […]

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10 Ways To Love The People In Your Life

by Tara Sophia Mohr

“At the end of life, our questions are very simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?” ~Jack Kornfield

We all grow up with some healthy stories about love and some unhealthy ones. I learned some beautiful, life-giving ideas about love, ideas like these:

  • Loving people means believing in their potential.
  • Love means treating people with kindness and gentleness.
  • Loving the people in your life means celebrating their successes and cheering them on.

But I also grew up with some stories about love that I came to see weren’t so helpful. Those ideas about love bred problems in my relationships. […]

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Date Night…All Year Long?

by Jane Samuel

I know what you are thinking.

“Dating? What is that? Is that where I put on me-clothes, doll myself up and hold my husband’s hand across the table of a fine restaurant? Sorry, no time for that. I think I hear the kids calling.” […]

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