There’s a famous scene in Pretty Woman, when, as things start to heat up between Vivienne and Richard, she warns him: No kissing on the lips. It’s a rule she learned from her friend Kit, we later ...

At the core of our very being we long for connection. God designed us this way. After all, he desires a relationship with us, so it would only make sense that he would create us with a desire for ...

In search of healing rituals, I first considered the church, a front line for so many Black folks and their ideas around community and restoration. God is what has gotten many Black Americans through ...

But the word “spiritual” is so overused that it may lose its meaning. Here are three things that spirituality means to me: 1. Connecting with life’s sacredness 2. Surrendering to something beyond our ...

We’ve all heard that intimacy is central to the health of most long-term romantic relationships. But what is it exactly? And how do we cultivate more of it? Researchers have found that in the context ...

When many people think of intimacy, they equate it to sex, and though sex can be an intimate activity, the two are not the same thing. Intimacy goes far beyond physical touch, and it's an important ...