Love Makes Managing Pain, Stress, and Sensory Input a Little Bit Easier
Razi Berry Love has countless benefits for our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Among these benefits, love can help us to manage our sensory input, including to serve as somewhat of a pain reliever. Love is associated with NGF, a peptide that helps the body to manage basic physiological processes through the sympathetic and […]
Love Makes Sex More Enjoyable for Women
Razi Berry Love certainly isn’t a prerequisite for sexual desire I’ll go ahead and assume that if you’re human, you’ve likely experienced an overwhelming sexual desire for someone you didn’t even know. Laying eyes on someone you’re attracted to can almost instantly evoke strong feelings of desire. Sometimes this attraction evolves into deeper feelings of […]
Let’s Look at “Love Sickness”: Why Some Breakups Physically Hurt
Razi Berry “Lovesick” is a very real thing, and I was I remember late night walking down the long narrow hall to the laundry room. Walking past pizza boxes in the flickering light to cash in dollars for quarters to feed the payphone in the hall of my college dorm. I was thousands of miles […]
How we are Loved Early on Impacts us for a Lifetime
Razi Berry Time Well Spent is Time Spent in the Present, Offering True Connection Some of my earliest and most profound memories of my father are of him simply looking at me. He worked a lot when I was young, and his one day off was in the middle of the week, so when I […]