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FWSG / NonFiction

Boosting Your Writing Energy: The Power of Collaboration and Support

#1 in the FWSG Series I feel a familiar, historic writing energy as the new year begins. Specifically, academic dissertation energy. One’s dissertation is a research piece where you either confirm someone else’s research or bring forward a new idea. You may have found your niche if your work brings something new forward. If you don’t know what it’s like to write a dissertation, it’s hard. The process is complex. Long and drawn out. It follows tedious rules. It goes through committees that approve, suggest, or deny movement forward. It can be so demanding that many of us called it...

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Challenges / NonFiction

Purple Passion Self-Care: A Plan for Ultimate Pleasure

You’ve reached Purple Passion Self-Care in the last three days. Can you believe you are near the end? Do you remember how the challenge started? I celebrated this morning by watching Magic Mike’s Last Dance. I loved the idea presented in the movie that when bodies move, they are sexy. Hopefully, you know yours a lot more in all four dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. That’s what sexual self-care is about—nourishing, understanding, and balancing these four components in you. I hope you made friends with yourself and learned many things. Let’s combine the last three days with your plan...

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Reaching Sexual Wholeness: This Sensual Journey is for YOU!

You’ve completed your third week of your sexual wholeness. Just found us? Start here. How are you different from week one? Week Two? Are you stepping into familiar territory now and enjoying yourself? Have you been journaling about your thoughts and feelings and finding new information about yourself? Week Four of Your Purple Passion Challenges Day 22 Challenge: Take Yourself on A Sexy Date. Enjoy your own company. Demonstrate to yourself you know what you like. Set up a situation that fills you up from the inside out and the outside in. Honor all your senses to overload if you...

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Challenges / NonFiction

A Journey to Sexual Self-Expression: Exploring the Allure of Purple Passion

A journey to sexual self-expression begins with one step. If you started on January 1, Hooray. If you are starting now, this is where you are supposed to be. Purple Passion is synonymous with sexual energy, wisdom, and desire. It’s yours. Tap into yourself and see what it is about. Check out the daily challenges from week one and week two. Read over this week’s challenges and see if you want to prepare. It’s always good to set time aside to consider sexuality. That is part of making space for it in your life, too. Remember, the point is to...

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Challenges

Invite the Vibrance into Your World: The Power of Purple Passion

Did you invite the vibrance of purple passion into your world last week? Did you join in the challenge? If you did, how was week one? Did you tap into the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realms of your sexuality? What did you learn? If you are just finding the challenge, feel free to incorporate both weeks. It is all about beginning to put sexuality into each day, so it’s okay to add a little more. Let sexuality be a regular part of your daily life. Enjoy yourself. Invite the Vibrance into the Week Two Challenges We start this week...

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Challenges

Purple Passion 31-Day Challenge 2024: Inviting Sexuality into your Day.

The new year is here. For once, begin the year and take time for yourself with the Purple Passion 31-Day Challenge. Invite sexuality into your day, your life, and your world, and learn to love all that you are. This challenge is set up by weeks in seven-day blocks. Grab a new notebook for reflection. Think about the places that inspire you and use them. Allow the challenges as prompts to open your mind, body, heart, and soul to your sexual self. With sex-positive and affirming ideas that are tied to your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self, capture their...

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In 2023, My Purple Passion Work Vibrated and Rocked Me Forward

For 2023, I painted purple passion into my themes and products. The energy of it keeps me creating more. With a busy schedule and at the year’s end, I have focused on resolving some health issues. As they settle down, I’ll be headed to Austin for a holiday with family and friends. Travel was a theme for this year. Mr. J. and I took our first big trip since the Covid pandemic. We explored Europe on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, and it was delightful. I enjoyed several months in North Carolina, the Piedmont, and the mountains. Travel...

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Trailblazing Women Empower Others to Embrace Their Sexual Health

Women empower each other, knowingly or unknowingly. I don’t know about you, but I want solid and supportive voices around me. I love Serena Williams’s quote, “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” When I create a new project, I want to hear the voices around me of the women who aspire to help, cheer, console, and revel in what I do. For the Purple Sex Journal, with its focus on sexual health and wellness, I asked women known in the sexual field to write an inspirational quote for the...

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NonFiction

Your Purple Sex Journey Needs a Robust Toolkit

Your purple sex journey needs a robust toolkit that will highlight all your senses and help you focus on all your body’s sexual components-physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. What will you need to support you on your journey? Begin the first steps of your journey with an upbeat attitude, an open mind, and an open heart. I have gathered an essential list of provisions for you. As you go along, you will discover many new things that will support and sustain you on your journey. To start, here are the basics. Location and Commitment for Your Purple Sex Journey A safe-haven...

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How Meditation Unlocks Your Sexual Body Health

Meditation is one of the several tools I bring forward in Purple Sex. The benefits of a meditation practice help you unlock and access the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of human sexuality in your body. The holistic nature of sexual wellness work is exemplified in meditation. Moving along a purple sex journey of discovery, meditation can bring balance to your entire sexual body. What is Meditation? Meditation is a practice that uses focus and mind-clearing for general well-being. It can take many forms, from ancient philosophies to religious practice to conscious bodywork. To enhance your sexuality, you can...

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Affirming Your Sexual Wellness Through Positive Thoughts and Words

Affirming your sexual wellness can take many forms. I made the Purple Sex & Love Beyond Your Dreams journal for women with various activities to explore themselves. I wanted to help you with personal growth on your purple sex journey by including affirmations and encouraging customized ones. Affirmations can empower women in their sexual wellness journey. Affirming Your Sexual Wellness to Boost Self-Esteem and Confidence What is an affirmation? It is a statement of positivity and acceptance. We can aim them to improve your self-image and boost your self-esteem and confidence. Affirmations can help you feel more confident and positive...

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How Creating Mandala Art Encourages Your Sexual Wellness

Drawing free-form mandala art can be a powerful tool for exploring your sexual wellness. It is an element that I included in the Purple Sex & Love Beyond Your Dreams: A Women’s Guided Journal to Explore Your Sexual Self. It facilitates investigating nine topics of sexuality. Sexual self-exploration or discovery work sits in sensuality, self-intimacy, fantasy, sexual behavior, gender, sexual orientation, pleasure, body image, and desire. And with new beginnings, it is helpful to create activities that allow you to experience yourself in an innovative way. Combining personal mandala art with sexual topic assessments is a unique way to express...

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Ream Peek: When the Sheets Talk

Here is your exclusive Ream peek at Beth and Rafe as they open their relationship to women and men, and they get an introduction to a private sex venue called The Tops and Bottoms Club. When The Sheets Talk By Dr. J. Episode 1 Beth I had to do it before the warmth of the sheets dissipated. I molded myself around Mara’s sleeping spot. With my face nestled into her pillow, the scent took me back to last night. Riveting. I arched my back in the bed and cupped my breast, slowly tweaking my nipple. “You want this, right?” That’s...

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How to Journal and Improve Your Sexuality—the Purple Way

Many people wonder how to journal to improve their sexuality. As I created a journal template to help women find their own path, I began my purple sex journey. That voyage helped me see that journaling is a path to discovering your sexual self. For each of us, that journey is to find our unique wonder and authentic sexual self. A journaling method captures your movement and growth as you explore. It provides a place to name who you are. But I know you are saying, “That takes time. Why and how should I journal to discover my purple sexual...

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Can You Grow Your Sexuality Like A Purple Hydrangea?

If you know anything about me, you know purple is my color. I look for symbols, meanings, and representations of the things I have around me. I wanted a flower to represent my ideas about purple sex. And the purple hydrangea made the cut. So, let’s see how a purple hydrangea can help you grow your sexuality. Farm Nerd Me Did you know I grew up on a farm? I learned early on how vital soil was to crops—learning about why crop rotation was necessary. Crops can deplete the nutrients in the ground, so you switch out a fresh crop...

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I Blast Purple Passion as the Book Launch Gets Real

Yesterday, my son walked into my office and asked me what I was doing. “I’m working,” I said. “But it’s Saturday.” The disbelief dripped off his words. “I know, and I blast purple passion as the book launch gets real.” As a writer, I can’t wait to share this sexual wellness tool. As a reader, I hope you will use it well for a better quality of sexual life for yourself. What You Don’t Know For me, creating a visual statement about the book takes concentrated alone time. No other focus. Only this content. No other distractions. The process has...

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Dr. J.'s News / NonFiction

Writer’s Retreat Triumph: Wins with Passion, Gumption, and Lots of Words

Another writer’s retreat in the books and we made memories. Sometimes it takes a little time for it to gel. I had hoped to post this last week, but I was still processing it. So many rich thoughts. Some many wonderful connections. And so many words. And sitting in the heart of it all was passion and gumption to grasp those words. Food and Drinks of the Writer’s Retreat Writers need nourishment besides coffee, which flowed freely. We ate and drank well. From Mr. J.’s welcome chicken dish to our new favorite resident chef and bartender’s creations, it covered us...

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Dr. J.'s News / NonFiction

The Exuberant Writers Island Retreat Produces a Magic Elixir

A magic elixir is produced when writers get together. It has a texture like cotton candy. A smell like an English garden in spring or caramel over the sea salt. A look like a Monet painting, hazy with all our energy. A taste of tequila aged in oak barrels. A sound like a guitar riff floating through the breeze. These sensations signify the writer magic of this year’s writing retreat. We are all magical ingredients adding to the mix of the retreat. Writer Imagination Creates the Magic Elixir Writer magic is a thing that happens when two or more writers...

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Challenges / NonFiction

Did Sexual Self-Care Month Help You Set a New Ritual?

We are coming into the home stretch for closing out May, our sexual self-care month. The 31-day challenge presented bite-size pieces for you to reclaim your sexual self in time. This is my fourth post on the topic, and I hope it provides MITE. Motivation. Information. Transformation. And Education. We can step into our fullest sexual selves with that mindset. We started the challenge with, Can you handle a month focused on your sexual self-pleasure? Next, we asked how are you celebrating your sensual self this month? Getting into the middle of the month, we asked, is empowering self-pleasure a...

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Is Empowering Self-Pleasure a Delight or a Dilemma?

Empowering self-pleasure can have unintended consequences. If you took the time to focus on the challenge, perhaps you discovered new delights. If it was difficult to move through the challenge, maybe it highlighted a dilemma. Either way-you got new information that you can act on in the future. Even though we are halfway through the challenge, you can still catch up on the process with the first-week post and the second-week post. Dilemma Maybe you discovered something you didn’t like. Maybe you discovered something that scared you. Maybe you weren’t completely honest with yourself. These things can provide content to...

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How Are You Celebrating Your Sensual Self This Month?

Welcome back to Celebrating Your Sensual Self. Week one is officially over. If this is your first visit to May’s Self-Pleasure Challenge, welcome to week two, May 7-13. We started last week with information about setting out May’s Pleasure Event Challenge, the ways to maximize your pleasure challenge, and outlining what the challenge is about.  Do you know how Masturbation – Self-Pleasure month started? In 1994, when Dr. Jocelyn Elders was Surgeon General, she stated at a UN meeting that masturbation was normal and should be taught. She was fired from her job, and Carol Queen of Good Vibrations, decided...

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Challenges / NonFiction

Can You Handle A Month Focused on Your Sexual Self-Pleasure?

Welcome to May’s Monthly Self-Pleasure Challenge Week One, May 1-6 Self-Pleasure to know thyself. Could this be more relevant than for your sexuality? Most folks don’t know their sexual self because our culture, institutions, family, and society send negative messages about understanding ourselves as sexual human beings. I created this sexuality challenge for masturbation month for you to explore who you are sexually with a focus on pleasure. This idea might sound foreign to you because many people talk about masturbation and orgasm as pleasure, yet we have not stated pleasure as a part of sexual health. The World Health...

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Character Sex Coaching: Your Characters Deserve Great Sex, Too!

What exactly is a character sex coach? A character sex coach is essentially a sex therapist or educator for your characters. They can help you, the author, understand how sexuality fits into your characters’ personalities, motivations, and relationships. Best of all, they guide you in using sexuality to deepen your readers’ connection to your story. They are helpful to writers who may not have had formal sex education or who struggle with writing convincing and nuanced scenes with sex. By working with a character sex coach, you can better understand how sex operates in your story and develop a more...

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How to Become Your Best Sexual Self. Mind. Body. Heart. Spirit.

For any starting point on your sexuality, let’s think about structure. I’ve found the best way to approach this personal learning is to use a holistic sex-positive approach focusing on Body. Mind. Heart. Spirit. If you want to become your best sexual self, you need to learn about yourself within the layers of your sexual self. As sexual beings, when we learn what makes us tick, we can use that information to expand and improve our quality of life within our sexuality. Defining Your Sexual Self in Sexual Health My first degree always gets me rolling. Health education. Here sexual health...