Welcome to the second installment of our 8-week summer series, The Womanly Arts Unplugged! This week, Maurya, a Mastery and Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp Grad from Boston, MA, joins us to teach about the Womanly Art of Having Fun No Matter What… Maurya, Age 51 – Lawyer, Coach, Wife and Mama The Art of Having...

Welcome to the first installment of our 8 week summer series, The Womanly Arts Unplugged! This week, Holly, a Mastery Grad from ’13 and ’14 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, joins us to teach about the Womanly Art of Whetting Your Own Appetite… Holly, Age 34, Lawyer Whetting Your Own Appetite is one of the most difficult...

Darling, It’s very nearly July 4th. Which has me thinking about freedom, intense effort, and something I have noticed. There is nothing more erotic than giving your all. Whether it’s to create freedom for yourself, or others. To stand firmly for what’s right. Pulling out all the stops, no holding back, and offering all of...

Darling, There is a certain kind of emotion that happens inside the Mastery classroom that is so very rare, and so very wonderful. It is a collision. A collision of joy that can only take its heartbreakingly beautiful shape in the kind of tears that fly off your cheeks in the raw excitement of being...

Darling, How do we know that we’re successful in the world? One of the aspects of a patriarchal culture, like the one we live in, is that we’ve all been taught a definition of what success is. We’ve been trained to go for certain markers that demonstrate success – external events, or circumstances that our...

Darlings, Last week, we talked about the epidemic of “fine” in women. Actually, we didn’t just talk about it, we detonated “fine.” In case you missed it, you can read it and join the conversation here. This week, I want to take you deeper into the gold that lurks underneath “fine.” After a lifetime of...

I am sure you have noticed. Babies cry every single day. Sometimes briefly, sometimes inconsolably. They also laugh every day. Not to mention wriggle, crawl, bounce and flap. And they move smoothly from emotion to emotion: wailing, then settling back to a set point of happiness pretty easily. Nothing like a woman. Women are encouraged...

I just got back from Paris. With 80 gorgeous women. Their beauty makes me weep; can you see what I mean from these photos? Paris. Why Paris? The food? The architecture? The museums? The Gauloises? No. Not really. There are no words to describe the pleasure we each got from all of those things. But that’s...

Miriam: When Mama Gena and the Palace Staff asked my mother and I to share our story here on the blog, as a way to celebrate Mother’s Day, I wasn’t sure at first. This the first time my face is front and center in a blog, let alone amongst that pink fluff, you know? And...

Mother. What other word can generate so many deep feelings? Eye rolling. Sighs of frustration. Misty-eyed reverence. Bliss. Rage. Longing. Disappointment. Blame. Resentment. Unspeakable gratitude. Heartbreak. Deep, boundless overwhelming love. Guilt. Expectations fulfilled, and unfulfilled. Motherhood is the motherlode of emotion. (Click to tweet!) I am grateful to both have a mother, and to be...