PASSIONATE HEALING

Three terrifying words… “You have cancer.”

This one short sentence divides your life like the stroke of a sword.

Receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer can profoundly interfere with intimacy because of the fear, the treatment ramifications, and the changes in your body. Often our partners are confused about how to respond and both people are unable to express the depth of their feelings.

Having cancer can actually be an opportunity to become more loving and more intimate in your marriage as you learn how to share the experience in the context of emotional safety, and the ability to be open. In the face of getting a serious diagnosis, what we all need is to be able to share the suffering that comes with it and know that our beloved is there for us because we need each other.

We are all inter-dependent beings who can hold each other's suffering.

“The lotus is a flower that grows in the mud." "The thicker and deeper the mud, the more beautiful the lotus blooms. It remains pristine and free from ruin, symbolizing transcendence from within the life of an ordinary person."

Intimacy is an openness that exposes us on deeply human, authentic levels. The ability to be intimate requires a sense of safety on all levels.

How openly you communicate with your partner is a huge factor in how you will manage this diagnosis.

Intimacy is a learned skill. We learn how to be connected to others physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally...with warmth and with loving feelings. Let us help you to connect with your partner on deeper, more intimate levels and work together on issues of intimacy.