I am really excited to interview Leslie Rice this week who is the CEO as well as one of the lead seminar leaders for PAX Programs.  PAX Programs are the brain child of one of my favorite JFW female guests, Alison Armstrong. We have talked about two important topics thus far:
Does he want to Date you or Marry You? and Understanding Men
Leslie is going to give us an in depth interview about Men and Sex, one of the powerful courses PAX offers to women (only!).  Send me any questions you have and I will be sure to get them answered during our interview! Click the ICON to learn more about the illuminating courses that can be found with PAX Programs and Alison Armstrong, a woman who has dedicated her life to helping the sexes understand each other better!

Remember that amazing, dreamy music that got your whole body in the mood?  Well, she’s back, the incredible ENYA, that is and I am really pleased to announce that she has a new album out for the holidays “And Winter Came,” and it is the newest sponsor of Just for Wome: Dating, Relationships and Sex!
Next month it will be twenty years since Enya released her beguiling Warner debut album Watermark, during the two decades since she has sold a remarkable 70 million albums around the world, won numerous awards and become Ireland’s biggest selling solo artist.

One of the most successful female artists of all time, Enya returns with a winter-themed album for the holidays. Featuring two traditional Christmas songs and 10 originals that evoke the changing Winter landscape and the cheer that Christmas brings. Enya’s And Winter Came… is the perfect soundtrack for spending time with your loved ones this holiday season. Download Enya’s And Winter Came directly from iTunes and support me, Just for Women and our new sponsor while you savor this luscious soul-stirring music!

Hey there is great Indy film launching this week in the Bay Area.  It is called Good Dick and I am going to check it out with my like minded homeys this Friday night at the Opera Plaza Theater.
Produced by my friend’s friend’s sister, I am always happy to support Indy films!  It has received great reviews so I am bringing a whole bunch of my friends, who are also relationship coaches to check it out.  I will let you know what I think.  Check it out in a theater near YOU!

“Before working on GOOD DICK, I went through a metamorphosis from an inactive observer and opinionated commentator to an active, courageous participant in my own artistic journey.  I realized that everybody can sing in the shower, but it’s something else to sing in front of a crowd.  The definition of courage includes fear.  If there is no fear, you can’t be courageous.  So I decided that the process of going through fear was preferable to the stagnancy of staying safe and scared. Going through fear is a way for me to stay sane in my life, and this film is part of that sanity and I’m grateful for it.  There are correlations between the journey of the film and my own effort in creating it.

With GOOD DICK, I wanted to show what love can do to someone’s life, and how love and sex can open a closed person.  I wanted to reintroduce the wonder of sexuality; the titillation of not seeing everything, the romance of a film about real people whose sexiness abounds because of their authenticity.  These days sexuality has somehow become associated with all things false, and I think it’s a mirage.  Characters are attractive to me when they are real people.

The story is almost like a knight slaying a dragon to save a damsel in distress, the man believes he is capable of solving all of the woman’s issues. The dragon however is an illusive foe, because in fact it is a part of her.  Her limitations as a healthy person, her sexual antipathy and her depression are roadblocks for him on his quest.  Eventually his courage and positivity give her the necessary tools to slay the dragon by herself, illustrating how his love for her has reverberated in her life and changed her for the better.

I knew the man had to be strong and thereby protective, but not in a stereotypical sense of male strength.  Definitions of masculinity often tend to be deformed in our culture. In the film the man’s power has nothing to do with his physical strength or his social status.  He is masculine in a way that I find to be genuine; this masculinity stems from his lack of chauvinism. His chivalry includes the woman’s own strength and equality.

David Leveaux once posed the following question to me: How much pain can you go through and still remain open?  With the characters in GOOD DICK, I wanted to illustrate growth as I understand it: what makes change happen, what turns evil into good, how can one person help another grow?  Similarly I gave myself the task as the director to follow the light, so to include myself in the question: How much stress can you go through as a director/artist and still remain open?  I don’t think it would work very well to direct a film as a closed person.  Nothing much works well unless I’m open.”

And if you are presently struggling with personal or relationship issues - reach out and connect with me - this is why I am here.

xoxo

Alissa