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We all know happiness is a choice. We also know we need… • 5 fruits and vegetables a day • 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week • 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night But most of us are over-committed, overworked and nancially pressured, which makes these goals harder to achieve. As a result, we have to work harder and harder at being happy. I know, because when I started drinking an organic Superfood Power Shake, my energy so dramatically improved it became naturally easier to maintain my healthy weight, exercise and eat better. Life became easier, so of course I felt happier. I'm around health products all the time—and there are a lot of good products in the marketplace—but this one is dierent. So when people started asking me about it, I shared the information. Before I knew it I had a growing business. I'm Katie, and this is my story. I would love to share it with you so you, too, can have a happier, healthier life and additional income. Happy people = happy planet. Let's do this together! 310.804.1197 LiveFoodsRock@gmail.com Happiness doesn't have to be this dicult! LOSE WEIGHT, MAKE MONEY, FEEL HAPPY Go to healthywealthy1.com for a FREE $50 gift card! Gift Card Code: healthywealthy1 continued from page 13 and go beyond our limits. As the mother of four, I witnessed over and over how little I actually taught my kids, but rather how much of their education was about my keeping them safe to explore their curious wanderings. Our curiosity about sex, one of the most essential and mysterious aspects of our personhood, was stunted, shamed and through religious dogma or family culture, taken away. The opposite of curiosity is judgment, which explains why so much sexual behavior that we don't understand is not really questioned so much as it is judged. It also explains how so many people get to a place where they deeply believe there is only one way to have sex—the way they know—which is a guaranteed path to sexual disappointment. Education, erotic and otherwise, is possible only for a mind that is open. Learning about the countless ways there are to express and experience your sexuality is a creative act, perhaps one of the most procreative aspects of living in a human body. This does not mean you give up your values or relinquish all your boundaries to have better sex, but it does mean the view gets more expansive. Making something new out of what is in front of you can be as simple as paying closer attention and being more present. These practices don't apply only to your sexuality, and the more you begin to apply wonder and expansive thinking to what you eat and wear, and with whom you spend time, the more your sexual life will bloom as an extension of the rest of your life. Too often, we sequester our sexual life as something unique and apart from the rest of our being. Our sexuality is a mirror into the way we live. Being more creative and open-minded about your entire day will change what happens in your bedroom. Using sexual entertainment as a guide for a better sex life is like eating junk food as a primary source of nutrition. A little sex entertainment can be fun, like the occasional hit of junk food, but it isn't education or nutrition. There are so many wonderful resources for real sex education in video, books, virtual and live therapy and counseling that there is no excuse not to seek real help. Some of the most important moments of my life happened in a therapist's offi ce, in part because I went with an open mind, truly curious and open to learning. Learning about your passionate and erotic impulses is a curative, maturing and freeing education that will bring more pleasure and aliveness to your nights, and replace judgmental limits that block curiosity in your days. Wendy Strgar, writer, teacher and loveologist, is the founder and CEO at Good Clean Love, makers of Almost Naked 95 percent-organic lubricant. healthy living SEX TALK 14 wholelifetimes.com