Darling Reader,

This weekend marks Kurt and my 24th (😲) wedding anniversary!

To celebrate our anniversary and your love this summer, I want to take you on a tour over the next couple of weeks. I'm going to tell you a series of stories that give you a peek into where we came from (have no doubt: we have had losses, f*#@d up, and been hurt in many ways, just as I am sure you have). AND I'll share with you the simple practices that have allowed us to create closeness, partnership, and delicious erotic connection that I know are exceptional... but that are truly our normal.

We're raising a teen and a tween, wrangling 3 pets now (what was I thinking getting a puppy while launching a startup AND running my business?!?) and caring for an elderly parent (with an exceptional team at her assisted living facility). I GET your pressures, your business, your graveyard of "happily ever after" dreams. I share all of them. But I want to give you a glimpse of what I know is possible because I live a life of exquisite, turned-on possibility - through good times and tough ones - and because my clients do, too.
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Whether you're single or coupled, monogamous or polyamorous, and whatever your gender... MORE is possible in love and sx.

Here's why I'm so fired up about sharing what's possible: With everything happening in this world today, I think we need hope.

We need to know that amid all the change and disorder and pain in the wider world and as we're navigating so many difficulties - whether they're about how you communicate or where the money goes or how you parent or where the dishes get left or how you make the time and space for the kind of sx worth stopping the world to have...

We need to know that this can be better.

That you don't have to change another person to get started.

That you don't have to be anything you're not, to have more of what you want.

I'll be emailing you a little more often than usual as I celebrate these 27 years with Kurt and everything my clients have taught me and us about what's possible in love.

If your summer doesn't afford you time for these messages, no hard feelings! Go ahead and hit this link to pause my emails and I'll be back to you in August. 😘

But if you're game, I'll be back Sunday with the first installment. I'm going to share with you about what's possible in terms of

• communication and conflict
• long-entrenched relationship and reactivity patterns
• how you feel about your body, emotions, and worthiness
• desire, sxual technique, and sxual hang-ups, trauma, and avoidance
• shared labor, invisible labor, gender conditioning, & true partnership

What hope do YOU need?
​I'd love to know where else you could use a clear picture of what's possible. Where are you discouraged? Afraid maybe you want more than is possible? Concerned the best is behind you, in terms of passion or confidence or ease or joy? What are you wrestling with? I'd love to be able to meet you right where you are. So please hit reply or talk to me through this anonymous form. I got you! And I'll be back very soon with my first story.

EDITED AFTER THE SERIES TO INCLUDE THE LINKS TO ALL THE STORIES IN THIS SERIES:

1. ​"From fighting all night to resolving conflicts with ease"​
2. ​"The sure-fire way to feel like your spouse's parent"​
3. ​"I would've left if it weren't for this"​
4. ​"I was allergic to being happy"​
5. ​"I thought my body was wrong"​
6. ​"My body felt betrayed by the times I'd said yes when she meant no"​
7. “The admission I never thought I’d hear.”

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Love love (it loves you too!),

Michele Lisenbury Christensen, MA Host of the Sx.Love.Power Podcast​ Love & Sx Coach for women, men, and couples ​ ​lisenbury.com​

PS: So excited for our other celebration! We saw the Avett Brothers last year ON our anniversary (July 15) at one amphitheater near Seattle, and tonight we'll see them again, at a different outdoor venue. NOTHING I love more than a warm summer night with my beloved as the sun goes down behind an amazing band. One of my favorite songs from them for your listening pleasure: "Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name."​

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