Sometimes in life we pick up tools that serve us for the next many decades. For us, “Soul Gazing” was one of those tools! I’ve written about this before but was honored when Spirituality and Health Magazine asked if I would write an article for them about it. Here is a link to my article just published in S&H entitled, “Soul Gazing: What It Is, and How to Practice It”
The article starts this way:
“My husband and I sat on the floor opposite each other in a room of nearly 20 other couples. It was 1995. We were participating in an introductory Love & Ecstasy workshop taught by Margot Anand that we had signed up for as a path to reconnect and heal after he had an affair with my best friend.
It might seem like an odd response to the aftermath of an affair when what you want is to point fingers and blame. But I had read these words by Margot Anand: Have you ever wished to be touched at the core of your being yet felt afraid to open yourself up and be vulnerable?
They awoke something in me, and I wondered what I might be hiding from myself—and from my husband. I considered if, on some level, he felt the same thing.
Besides, it felt like we could go one of two ways in the aftermath: either go our separate ways, or dive deeper into each other. We decided together to go deep—the tantric way…”
