Powered By Pleasure
It’s in YOU
Pleasure is a complex topic and I often feel like I’m playing with a gnarly ball of yarn. Which thread do I pull at first? I’m just back from a teaching weekend, and now preparing to go to Israel to teach about pleasure. Pleasure is a topic that’s catching traction. I love how working with a group, pulling at the various threads that arise, helps me go deeper; helps me hold the topic more fulsomely. Read more >
Mar 21, 2018Pleasure as a Spiritual Practice
The deeper I go into the Unlock Pleasure Project the more I see it as spiritually informed and a legitimate lens to open to spiritual healing, growth and development. Read more >
Mar 01, 2018Pleasure in Creativity
I’m just back from Mexico and thankfully spring is in the air in Ottawa. If there’s one word synonymous with spring it’s creativity! On return I’ve been running into friends and colleagues, and there seems to be a common theme. Life is abundant and full. The saps running. Read more >
Feb 07, 2018The Presence of Spirit in Moments of Pleasure
In my conversations about pleasure, people are often puzzled why pleasure would Pleasure be so intriguing to me a psychotherapist and spiritual counsellor. Pleasure isn’t commonly associated with either our process of healing or spirituality development. But interestingly for me, those are the two main motivators, in my project to redefine and reclaim a more wholistic understanding of pleasure. Read more >
Jan 26, 2018The Rhythm of Expansion and Contraction in Unlocking Pleasure
Rhythm is a key element of pleasure. By this I mean attuning to your own internal rhythm, to let it guide your movement through the day. This rhythm is unique to each of us, but we all share participation in the rhythmic movement of expansion and contraction. This rhythm is all around us in the cycles of nature and even our own breath – inhaling we expand and exhaling we let go. Read more >