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- BlogDear Reader: Welcome to my very first blog! This blog represents the next step of faith in a journey I never could have imagined ten years ago, a path full of unexpected turns, rich discoveries and shared connections—personal connections to some of you who might be reading at this very moment, as well as a larger sense of shared practice, kinship, and brotherhood with many of you whom I will never meet. What I now call “Touch Practice” began as an effort to explore and heal my own body. I thought of it as something I created, something invented or made up, just for me. I slowly realized that while it was profoundly healing for me, it also seemed to have tremendous benefit for others, and so it became something for “we” rather than something just for “me.” I began to think of Touch Practice as a form of partnership. Next, I understood that something I imagined I had created or invented myself actually existed before I found it—Touch Practice is more accurately something I discovered, something I became aware of rather than creating. I came to understand that this aspect of touch has probably existed in an infinite variety…
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Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement
2I’m spending the weekend at one of my spiritual homes, a place where I have deep roots, a place which has fed and nourished me over the years. I’ve been thinking about my other spiritual homes along the way–the Catholic church, into which I was …
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News from TouchPractice.com!
Hello friends! These past months have been a whirlwind for me. I’ve been taking a break from the more educational or topical style of blogs that I typically write, enjoying some good summer weather (a bit early!) and even having a real, solid vacation. Life …
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Keeping Fire
I grew up in a house that was heated by wood fires, one upstairs and one downstairs. My dad was the keeper of those fires until I became old enough to gradually take over that role. I’ve tended, literally, thousands of fires as I was …
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Appetite and Need
In this weekend’s blog, I want to explore the distance between appetite (what we think we need in order to be well) vs. need (what we actually do need.) These two things are frequently misaligned, sometimes drastically so. Let me give you some examples: Americans …
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Suffering as a bad habit (Part One)
When I was a child, I had a number of rather intense friendships–and I liked intense friendships. There was something about closeness I thrived on, something about emotional intimacy which was meaningful to me. It made me feel fully alive and fully connected. Fairly early …
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Getting Off (with pictures!)
Yeah, this post is about exactly what you think it’s about. Yes: ejaculation. If you came from another planet and were to carefully observe human behavior, you might think that if a human male becomes aroused to the point of erection, that condition constitutes a medical …
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Cleared for Approach
I’ve done about a half dozen group workshops for people investigating Touch Practice for the first time. Here’s a question for you: what do you think guys generally find to be the most difficult or challenging moment in a workshop? Obviously, different people might have …
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He’s available!
About a year ago, I drove out to visit my friend Brent. Our plan was we’d go out to dinner somewhere, I’d stay overnight and take off first thing in the morning for a business meeting close by. Brent and I have always had a …
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