Cherie Byrd, Blog

Plugging In Your Empowerment Tools                                                        With all the change, challenge and expansion people have been going through this spring I'd like to take a moment to remind you to tend yourself well and offer some tools for coping with the experience of your deeper, multidimensional empowerment. First of all if you really want your power back let the inner kids out. It may seem like you're loosing some control but actually you're regaining your relationship with the creative, spontaneous and enthusiastic energy of childhood. Be the loving inner parent who supplies structure, support, sustenance and affection. Remember that any expanded game you play needs a bigger table, you will have to come to terms with needing bigger boundaries and self definition. You'll take up more emotional space; you're more potent, and full of yourSelf, get

As an intimacy coach and educator I am privileged to talk with people about their most personal experiences. In these sacred conversations I've discovered many different definitions of intimacy. For most folk their "intimate" experiences are very narrowly defined and usually of a short duration, happening within a particular context. What I know for sure is that intimacy energy that's been stuck into a box tends to loose its lifeforce, its passion and warmth. We wonder where the passion goes. I've been teaching Kissing School since 1998 and in every class I've witnessed people blossoming when intimacy gets taken out of the box and is freed to become a rich undercurrent of every day; so here for you are some ideas for cultivating the arts of Everyday Intimacy just in time to warm up your Valentine's Day. I would like to offer a more dynamic definition of intimacy. As many of you know, I usually relate to the world from the viewpoint of its underlying