by Tara Spears | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Our focus this week will be on expanding the love you have for yourself into your ability to give love to others. In preparation for this week’s edition, I came across a funny quote. It stated, “The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth...
by Tara Spears | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
As a child of the 80’s, I grew up idolizing Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze and Meg Ryan. One of my favorite movies from this era, Cocktail, a movie staring Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue, features an infamous line where Cruise’s character states, “Jesus, everything ends...
by Tara Spears | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last week we explored ways to hold and heal from the grief of broken love. This week we will explore how to heal from grief that follows the death of a loved one. I was 8 years old when my grandfather died. This was my first experience with death. I can still see...
by Tara Spears | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
As a couples counselor and a sex therapist, I frequently hear from both couples and individuals that sex is, at best, no longer a priority and, at worst, a chore or something to be avoided. By the time couples make it in to see me to address their sexual relationship,...
by Tara Spears | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you ever noticed that you identify some sexual behavior as good and other sexual behavior as bad? To be clear, I’m not talking about harmful acts that most would agree are bad or wrong to do to another. I’m talking about the reason why you have decided that oral...
by Tara Spears | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Contracts in couple relationships govern things like monogamy, household responsibilities, care giving duties of children, sexual expression and yes, pornography. Pornography is often a polarizing topic that touches value sets across multiple domains (i.e. marriage,...
