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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
The Gift of the Group
“I’m afraid I’m too old and wrinkled; what if women don’t find me attractive anymore?” “I’m afraid I’m too young, and women won’t find me...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
The Dance of Intimacy
My consciousness is regularly drawn across the arc of this pendulous heart journey - feeling alone and together. Maybe it’s because I’m...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
I don’t look like Barbie. Do you?
Yeah, I saw the Barbie movie. And, yeah, I cried. Why? No matter how feminist, conscious, body-positive or healthy I am, I still compare...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20241 min read
Wear Your Sex Positivity On Your Sleeve
Sex-positive swag, like my “I make my sex therapist blush” t-shirt, is a friendly reminder that #sextherapy is available to help put...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
I’m a kink-positive counselor! What does that mean?
The other day a man called in after reading a post in which I invited clients with kinks to the clinic. He was really nervous - it’s hard...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
“Love with every stranger, the stranger the better.”
I really identify with this line from one of my favorite songs, "Someone New," by Hozier . I love talking to people I've just met. And I...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20241 min read
“downthere”
What do you call it? “Lady Parts” “The Bits?” “Chacha?” There’s a movement these days to teach children the proper names of body parts,...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20241 min read
Collaboration with the Kinsey Institute
BIG NEWS! I've been awarded the Kinsey Institute ’s Ogden Curatorial Scholarship for Integrative Approaches to Sex Research and Therapy!...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20241 min read
It Gets Better
As a counselor, I meet people who have suffered, often alone, for years. However, one of the best parts of my work is observing how,...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20241 min read
Love life stuck in reverse?
Great intimacy is like driving a stick shift! REVERSE? You feel distance from partners…intimacy is triggering and painful, emotionally or...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
What's "People Pleasing?"
This is the tendency to prioritize others at the EXPENSE of our desires, needs or feelings. Being polite, kind or generous isn't what...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
Conscious Sexuality and Pride
"Mom, why isn’t polyamory represented in the pride flag? Why is the rainbow all about the gender of the person you love and not about the...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
Embodied Knowledge
For twenty years or so, I was a professional nerd. An academic. Three degrees, research, elite universities...day and night I read (and...
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marcyannbd
Sep 15, 20242 min read
When I grow up, I want to become a sex therapist!
What do you want to be when you grow up? I wanted to be a rock star, not a sex therapist. And yet...I was THAT kid - the one who taught...
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