Erotic vitality means feeling fully alive. You do this first and foremost for yourself. Feeling vibrant and empowered to live and speak your truth in different domains helps counterbalance the forces in the world around you that may undermine your sense of agency. Erotic vitality emerges when you can relax, speak up, set boundaries, pursue joy and pleasure, cultivate fulfilling relationships, experience agency, and have energy.
Our tendency to judge ourselves, others, life events, and our partner can block our ability to see the world around us clearly.
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Overthinking is our subtlest and most insidious cognitive coping strategy.
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Balancing “selfhood” with flexibility is another way of talking about interdependence.
Mixed emotions can be confusing–and they’re at the core of so much of what we feel.
It’s easier to grow frustrated with a partner you see all day every day, and it’s harder to regulate emotions when hobbies, travel, and exercise are off limits because gyms are closed and it’s not safe to travel.
The current election may well be the most charged and emotionally fraught experience of its kind we have ever been through in this country.
Thirty years ago, science fiction books and movies were about what then seemed utterly impossible: living in a time when …
