Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence - Softcover

Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CST-S, CSAT-S, is Founder and Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, and Senior Fellow at The Meadows. A Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist/Supervisor, she specializes in sexual-marital therapy and the treatment of sexual addiction. Ms. Katehakis has incorporated interpersonal neurobiology into her Psychobiological Approach to Sex Addiction Treatment (PASAT), and the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health honored her with its 2012 Carnes Award for significant contributions to the field. In addition to co-authoring "Mirror of Intimacy," she is a contributing author to the Clark Vincent award-winning "Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts" (2012) and author of "Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex After Recovery From Sex Addiction" (2010). Ms. Katehakis’s upcoming book, "Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Holistic Healing Model" (2015), will be published by W.W. Norton & Company. Ms. Katehakis contributes regularly to The Huffington Post and PsychologyToday.com, and has served as a clinical educator at numerous mental health and addiction treatment centers in the US and Europe. Tom Bliss graduated from Pitzer College with a self-designed major in "Multimedia Performance: Life as an Art Form." While penning his senior project--a symbolic play about a playwright being forced to show up in his own symbolic play--he was privileged to experience Samadhi, the supreme state of enlightenment through meditation. Upon graduating, he joined the San Francisco-based Chero Company founded by Frank Moore, the wheelchair-bound performance artist/shaman, whose marathon all-nude “Eroplay” happenings encouraged people to connect freed of social and cultural programming. During the next 15 years Mr. Bliss worked on both coasts as a multimedia performance artist and writer. In 2007, he entered a sex and love addiction recovery program at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, and attends weekly support groups through various organizations. In 2009 he completed the Parent Educator Certification Program in Non-Violent Communication (NVC) at Echo Parenting & Education. He has appeared as guest educator on the PBS series, "A Place of our Own," discussing topics ranging from emotional literacy to self-care. www.CenterForHealthySex.com

"Mirror of Intimacy stands out from the clutter of meditation books. The writing of Alexandra Katehakis & Tom Bliss is deep and thoughtful, shedding a warm light on healthy relationships. Highly recommended."--Jeff Jay, Co-Author of "Love First: A Family's Guide to Intervention". "Going through the daily reflections of Mirror of Intimacy is a fascinating experience. This is a book to experience and savor one day at a time. I see Mirror of Intimacy as a "vade mecum," one of those books which you don't let out of your sight and use for daily reflection because, centered on sexuality, it touches every aspect of being human. I also see it as breaking through the area of sexual mindfulness, a new positive focus on our complex humanity through our sexuality. As a psychologist, I am happy to have this magnificent creation to use with clients and patients in need of healthy sexual "recovering" leading to their enrichment, joy and celebration of life. The many people who are sexually unhappy will find in Mirror of Intimacy a real help to discover the beauty of healthy sexuality. The book will soon be one of the important therapeutic tools in our field."--Dr. Daniel L. Araoz, Ed.D, Author of "Integrating Hypnosis with Psychotherapy: The Legacy of Buddhism and Neuroscience". "Having worked in counseling for the past 10 years, I've yet to encounter any material as powerful, concise and direct as your meditations. I use them in couples therapy in lieu of assigning long articles or books. My couples enjoy the "straight talk" of the meditations, backed up with personal "homework" at the end of each meditation."--Dr. Carmelia Lowman, LPC, Savannah, Georgia. "I enjoy and look forward to reading your Daily Reflection. My wife of 19 years and I are going through a very rough patch in our marriage and it's uncertain what the outcome will be. Your comments have hit the core of our marital issues; mostly related to our respective sexual identities, desires and the need to communicate, understand and accept each other for our differences. She reads and looks forward to your writings as well. It definitely has made a positive difference at home while we struggle to decide which outcome is best for us and our children."--D.J.L. "For myself and for my husband of 57 years, as well as for my patients, your daily reflections are a splendid reminder of what's important as we go through our busy days. They provide wonderful conversation starters as well as bonding opportunities and perhaps most importantly, they serve to motivate us to focus on our intimate relationships. Thank you for a brilliant job, well done."--Marilyn Loevy Spiro, PhD, Richmond, Virginia. "I use these wonderful meditations as a practitioner's resource to help my sex and love addicted clients practice daily mindfulness. This homework intervention has proven to be extraordinarily empowering to them and to me as a practicing counselor. I highly recommend these meaningful meditations as a resource for therapists to share with their clients."--Howard Baumgarten, LPC, Denver, Colorado. "These meditations, written with the wisdom of a sage, have been the perfect daily dose for healing on my spiritual path to recovery from love addiction. The words are wise, profound and modern. I hope to continue strengthening my character with this thoughtful advice as I begin anew with a healthy love relationship."--Sandra. "In a world that is often all too quick and content to shame individuals who want to explore and understand their sexuality and sex, these meditations provide healthy, beautiful and accessible approaches to a healthy, beautiful and crucial part of the human experience."--Noah Michelson, Gay Voices Editor, Huffington Post.