Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Best Self Magazine

    Desire and Fear: The Two Pillars of Relationship and Sexual Health

    by Michael Charming Mar 22, 2020 3 minutes
    Desire and Fear: The Two Pillars of Relationship and Sexual Health, by Michael Charming. Photograph of someone passing a small heart to another by Kelly Sikkema
    Photograph by Kelly Sikkema

    Improve your relationships and ability to experience sexual pleasure by understanding how to navigate fear and desire — in and out of the bedroom

    —

    We often think of desire and fear as two completely unrelated concepts. However, understanding how these two powerful life forces interact is key to developing both deep intimacy and sexual pleasure — the cornerstones of healthy relationships.  

    Desire impacts the people, places, and activities we engage in; it is also central to many facets of our lives: sex, relationships, career, family, and so forth.

    When most people think about desire, they think about sexual desire

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Best Self Magazine

    Best Self Magazine6 min read
    Navigating Grief with Ayurvedic Principles: A Q&A with Sweta Vikram
    Estimated reading time: 9 minutes — In this Q&A, Bill Miles, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Best Self Magazine, puts forth questions for Dr. Sweta Vikram, inspired by her new book, The Loss that Binds Us: 108 Tips on Coping with Grief and Loss.
    Best Self Magazine5 min read
    Balancing Act: What I Learned from Letting Go of a Lifetime of Accumulated Possessions
    Estimated reading time: 7 minutes — When my wife passed away in 2017, I needed to downsize from a house to an apartment. I was too overwhelmed by grief and the complications of life to think clearly about much of anything. So I filled three storage
    Best Self Magazine7 min read
    How I Left: Reflections on My Journey into Marriage…and Out
    Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — My grandmother was fourteen when a man in her Southern Italian village asked to marry her. He was twenty-eight, a stranger to Gramma. She said, No! But her mother told her, “Marry him. He’ll take you to America.”

    Related Books & Audiobooks