Making Love Sustainable Podcast with Wendy Strgar
Summary: As a writer, speaker, and educator Wendy Strgar's focus on Making Love Sustainable, a green philosophy of relationships which teaches the importance of valuing the renewable resources of love and family. She has learned that physical intimacy is an essential component of sustaining healthy loving relationships through her own marriage of over 24 years. Wendy is a talented communicator who can cut through the confusion to provide clarity and perspective on a range of emotional and relationship issues. She brings to her writing, speeches, and clients a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges which all relationships face.
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There is an indescribable, yet palpable reality of sexual intimacy wherein the ecstatic release of deep pleasure balances and ignites an equal experience of pain. Loving someone emotionally creates the same pain/pleasure experience as making love to them does.
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." - Wendell Berry
Sarah Palin's daughter is not the only one for whom abstinence education didn't work. Despite the millions of dollars invested in "abstinence-only" education for youth, both teen pregnancy and birth rates have jumped up in the US after a 15 year decline. Just as our sexual attitudes and beliefs were stretched wide open by the younger generation of the 60's, our children are demanding and creating a new kind of sexual dialogue to fill the void that our sanctioned teach them nothing approach has created. Education is the path that the future is built upon. We cannot expect different results when we keep providing the same or less information.
We take our vitality for granted. The strength of our life force impacts not only our overall physical health, but often acts as a primary filter for our emotional life and how we interpret the events that make up our days. Often we also bear witness to the strength of our life force in our sexual lives. When we are feeling vitally alive, colors are brighter, our thinking is more acute and our emotional life is stable. Our sexuality is heightened and readily available for exploration.
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. It is the path of redemption where life can move forward from the present moment, where the past fades with memory and we have the internal space to accept the daily imperfections of life with those we love as they are. It is a true forgetting, this forgiveness that frees the victim as deeply as the perpetrator.
Like many sexual discussions which rarely or never happen in the midst of our most intimate relationships, yet proliferate the airwaves and video content of adult entertainment, most people have an extremely limited language to work with when it comes to orgasm.
Push and Pull - Do you understand the push-pull phenomenon that drives most relationships? Do you even know what side you're on? Here are some ideas to begin to relate to the pendulum swings and follow your heart to balance in love.
Learn how negative thinking about relationships (be it from culture or old ideas of our own) limit the possibilities of growth and happiness within relationships of all kinds.
Language is the metaphor we use to communicate our deepest feelings. A couple's sexuality is the most profound vehicle of communication of all. The words we use and our physical language of love define our love experience.
I urge all of my closest friends to explore an entirely different dialogue, one where the spoken word is left outside the door, and the conversation is lead and answered with what some would argue is our true intelligence- the body.
Understanding that the huge amounts of trust, time and loving intention that we invest in our early relationships are actually renewable resources, provides us with the motivation to create new strategies to maintain them.
