Strategies to avoid love in intimate anorexia: the silent treatment

Anorexia of intimacy is a term coined by sexual addiction recovery expert Doug Weiss to describe the active retention of emotional, sexual, and / or spiritual intimacy in the recovering couples he works with. I believe that intimacy anorexia is a particularly virulent subcategory of a more general relational pattern best described by recovery pioneer Pia Mellody as avoidance of […]

Back to School Guide for Students

It is never too late or too early to start getting ready for school. Even if you just missed the latest deals, there is still something you can do. After all, the best things in life are free, right (at least some of them anyway)? It is vitally important to stack paper and pencil to take those life-saving notes. They’re […]

What is a Meditation Teacher?

Meditation Teacher If you have ever been in the company of a meditation teacher, you probably know how difficult it can be to get them to explain what they are doing. They may be able to explain it to you in general terms, but when it comes to describing the subtleties of one’s particular practice, they often have a hard […]

Free Casino Pragmatics

Casino Pragmatics Before I begin, I should probably tell you that I am not a free casino gambler. If you are, you most likely have heard of the saying “win at all costs” and how it applies to online gambling. While there is a degree of truth to that, it does not apply to free casino strategies. I’m only trying […]

The benefits of organic coconut oil

For many years we were led to believe that coconut oil, which is a saturated oil, was bad for our health. By 1985, a national campaign against saturated fat was underway and coconut oil was among its victims. As a result of that campaign, coconut oil and any product containing coconut oil were completely eliminated from our diet. The oil […]