Cherie Byrd, Blog

Many people turn their noses up at the notion of having a holiday for lovers, feeling they’re forced to focus on something that they’d rather do on their own schedule, when the notion strikes, later. Does later come in your world? I’ve been working with couples for over 30 years and there are many great changes afoot, a deeper loving is being discovered by those who are engaging more fully with the possibilities of conscious relationships. Is this deep and rich loving arriving in your life? For most the journey of authentic intimacy begins with a gnawing hunger for MORE. Whether people have been married for decades or dating for a couple of years I hear the same story; we rarely connect, our romance doesn’t carry the zing, the rush, pizzazz it did early on. Most people don’t want to hear this, but with a great deal of compassion I will tell you that the zing you felt at the beginning, usually the first 3 months of ...

7 Lessons in Love, Lips, & Life Force by Cherie Byrd, MA Book Review Review by Angela Earle Printed in Spirit of the Valley,  Magazine of Mountain Wellness Aug 2005   Since any of us may die at any moment, learning to love more fully sounds like the most important, and most urgent, class to take. (page xii) So opens Kissing School: Seven Lessons on Love, Lips, and Life Force. This is not a book about technique, the correct amount of pooch or pout, or a waxing ode to the power of love. It is about love as life and death, about love as here and now, about being fully alive in the moment, about stepping up to the plate and running with open arms into total being, bliss, and wonder. It’s about the fact that a fabulous, powerful, memorable kiss is an outgrowth of a loving, connected person-someone not afraid of their own sexual shadow. Someone willing to bring their heart into the light… Kissing School itself is an outgrowth. It is the culmina...