There are more and more messages these days about the healing power of pleasure. Well known doctors such as Christiane Northrup and Sara Gottfried are providing us with the scientific reasons why pleasure is so healing to our bodies, minds, and souls.
Pleasure decreases our stress hormones, raises our neurotransmitters, inhibits cellular inflammation and slows down the aging process. If we could bottle and sell that, it would be the best selling drug available.
However, the point is, we can do this on our own.
We just need to give ourselves permission to experience more fun, more joy and more of whatever turns us on.
Last week I listened to some of The Red Tent Revival presented online by Kristin Sweeting Morelli. Kristin and her guests discussed the role of pleasure in awakening and cultivating the potent feminine energy within all women that is waiting to be fully activated.
It was touching and beautiful to see a community of women come together to discuss such things as sensual dance, sacred sexuality, loving your body and how to express the empowered feminine in a relationship so as to honor and bring out the best in a man.
Why isn’t this mainstream discussion and behavior?
Our ability to access more pleasurable states of being has been suppressed long enough and it is time for all of us to do something about it both individually and collectively.
I’ve had several conversations this week with clients and friends who desire to create new situations in their lives.
I feel the work I do is sacred. 
As a holistic psychotherapist and life coach, I work with clients all week long who are going through major transitions of one kind or another; relationship endings and beginnings, career changes, geographic changes, death or loss of a loved one, health challenges, etc.
In my recent blog entitled, Is Your Old Life Dying?, I wrote about the way in which life is speeding up these days and so many of us are seeing our old lives fall away while being called to birth something new. Many times we have no idea what this new life is supposed to be or how we are going to create it, but the old way of living simply feels outdated, suffocating, uninspired and boring. I especially see this in the clients I work with who are in their late 30’s to mid-fifties and beyond.