Are you leaning forward in Love? Always the first to text and fill the silence?
Always the first to text in relationships? Wonder why others don't take more initiative?
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Veronica Puryear
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Love is Patient, Love is Kind...And Sometimes Love Says, "Cut the Sh*t, Honey Buns."
I know you THINK you’re ensuring that you’ll always be held and understood (and one up!) by being the perfect lil angel in your...
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Veronica Puryear
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Mismatched Desire: When one partner wants sex and the other does not (and the joyful path back to connection...)
What do you do when one person says, "I want connection first," and the other insists, "I have to be physical to feel close!"
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Veronica Puryear
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Bedtime stories...First she healed her anxiety, then she drew him closer with her energy...
This is the story of a formerly *very* anxious wife and a guarded husband who have been experiencing some intense conflict in the last...
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Veronica Puryear
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Where I'm hiding from deeper intimacy...
I’m guilty. Guilty of holding back and keeping my most tender self a secret. In my downturned glances and with a clench of my jaw, I stop...
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Veronica Puryear
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No, you’re not a People Pleaser
I can’t take another social media post about people pleasing. Why? First, why does everything need an official-ish sounding and degrading...
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Veronica Puryear
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Fluidity as Philosophy...The Ethos of Indelicate
Good luck trying to get me to make you feel wrong about something because I mostly believe that right and wrong are simply not a thing....
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Veronica Puryear
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In Time of Intensity Call Your Energy Back to Yourself....
Your Reminder to Take Exquisite Care of Yourself... Intimacy means that our energy may become scattered and spread out amongst our loved...
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Veronica Puryear
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What is Intimacy Anyway?
Intimacy is what happens between the lines.... It is a wordless but felt sense of closeness It is a vibe It is energy It is subtext It is...
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Veronica Puryear
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Experiential Somatic Intimacy Coaching is different from traditional therapy in three key ways
As a former appointee of a Presidential Administration, I'm no stranger to the burnout and disconnection that comes from our fast-paced...
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Veronica Puryear
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How Even Givers Make This Mistake In Love...
This just needs to be said. Love is not a thing you "get" from someone. Are you treating Love as something transactional or like a...
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Veronica Puryear
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Women Have Darkness and Imperfections and Men Have So Much Love to Give
Let women be imperfect and let men step into the light. When we paint women as perfect or as perpetual victims of the foibles of men we...
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Veronica Puryear
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You're giving Mother where you're meant to be Lover
You don’t understand how you can give everything, do everything for them and they still don’t show up for you or return the favor. This...
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Veronica Puryear
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Men, now is not the time to overcorrect.
Men and people who are raising young men. Toxic shame which leads to unhealthy masculinity which leads to disassociation, trauma,...
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Veronica Puryear
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One Year of Epic Growth and the Foundation It is Built On
One year. Celebrating milestones is not a strong suit of mine. I don’t like planning for them and I don’t know how to ask to be...
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Veronica Puryear
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Remember that everyone gets nervous
Before you unravel… Remember that everyone gets nervous. I see so many clients—and my own lovers—get so lost in their own heads. You...
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Veronica Puryear
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Everything I say here about leadership in love….It is also true for sex.
Set aside your perceptions of ‘Top’ and ‘Bottom’ for a moment. Forget about gender identities and ideas about who gives and who receives....
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Veronica Puryear
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Self Sacrifice is not the thing that makes you a great partner...
Your worth is not in the things that you “do” for people, but in who you are to them by simply being your most authentic and loving self....
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Veronica Puryear
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Why is Women's Pleasure so Elusive?
Why is women’s pleasure such a mystery and why are we so quickly resigned to believing that we have gone as far as we can with it? I’ve...
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Veronica Puryear
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Most of Us Are Just Barely Scratching the Surface of Pleasure
All of us have the potential for wild, immersive, ecstatic, PLEASURE-FULL experiences… And yet we’re skipping right over most of the...
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