Posts tagged relationships
Surrogacy: Carrying My Brother’s Babies by Tiffany Burke with The Birth Hour

The Birth Hour helps pregnant women achieve an empowering birth experience through sharing authentic birth stories so they are informed going into pregnancy, birth and postpartum. In this podcast, The Birth Hour talks to Tiffany Burke, who became a surrogate for her brother's twin babies. She openly talks about the extensive planning that was involved for the pregnancy, from her husband's initial concern, her overruling excitement, lawyers and contracts, morning sickness and hospitals, from the first IVF treatments to actually giving birth to two baby boys. It's an uplifting and emotional story to hear, that faces up to the realities of pregnancy, surrogacy, family... and unconditional love!

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Neuroscience of Love

The word love is one of the most complicated words to ever exist, with different meanings to each and every one of us. It is elusive. We learn about it through various platforms and experience it to a variety of degree throughout our lives.In this week's blog we look at the fascinating clip with science journalist Sharon Brock, who looks through the lens of neuroscience to explain the chemicals that are triggered in our brain when we fall in love and how they change over time.

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The Person You Really Need to Marry by Tracy McMillan

Marriage is certainly not for everyone. Yet, for some people finding a soulmate and marrying them always seems to be a life-goal that is expected of you. For some people it’s a life long desire, and we can be driven by that need to find a partner. Certainly, for Tracy McMillan, who opens up with honesty and frankness about her life-story to date, this pressing need to marry someone was there from a young age. However, as Tracy has realised, there is a lot to be said for taking a step back from our pursuit for a partner… first, we need to marry ourselves.

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Alain de Botton On Sex

Frank and humorous as ever, Alain de Botton explores our approach to sex in today’s society. From what makes us so attracted, psychologically and physically, to certain people, to why we are not all turned on by the same person, keeping that fire burning in a relationship and finding ways to have more sex to cutting back and avoiding ways in which sex can become a distraction.

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Ultimate Erotic Massage: The Book You Never Knew You Needed

Empowering, fun, and downright sexy, you can build your confidence and explore exciting new ways to pleasure every part of the body.Promising to help you master over 100 erotic massage techniques, to heighten arousal, enhance sex, and deepen orgasms, this book provides a step-by-step guide to creating the ultimate massage experience. 

 

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Close Encounters from The Guardian: Polyamory, Sexual Unicorns and Google Calendar

In this podcast, Alix Fox digs a little deeper and talks to a couple in a fulfilling polyamorous relationship Michelle and Reuben. Embracing the ideals of polyamory, deriving from the Greek “many loves”, Michelle and Reuben live together, sleep together and date other people together. It’s a refreshingly open and frank discussion, getting to grips with the idea of polyamory and engaging with the stigma, discrepancies and confusion surrounding it.

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