From the earliest stages of our development, we are engaged in sexuality through the exploration of pleasure and morality.
Most of us absorb conscious and unconscious messages through family, society, culture, and religion, and are left to improvise in the places where uncertainty remains. Even emotional therapists often hesitate to engage with sexuality in the clinical space, due to embarrassment, fear, or a lack of appropriate tools and training.

Because sexuality is so often left unspoken, it becomes a dense and challenging dimension of human experience, and the path toward it is frequently shadowed by confusion and vulnerability. As facilitators, working with the internal stoppages rooted within this field, requires a deep familiarity with the forces operating in it — fear, shame, guilt, trauma, pain, and longing.

Since 2009, I have been researching the intersection between Focusing and sexuality, developing an approach that has brought healing and transformation to many people.

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This book brings together years of research, both within and beyond the clinical setting, and I am grateful to invite you — fellow travelers of emotional process, sexual exploration, therapy, and Focusing facilitators — to receive a rich and illuminating map to dimensions that may not yet have been fully explored.