True power comes from the heart. Heart-centered leadership is palpable power, without a need to have to prove anything. Beneath the surface of profit margins and market strategies lies a deeply ...

When it comes to matters of the heart, we tend to throw around a lot of terms to try to describe and define the many, many different shades of romantic connections and experiences we might find ...

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...

Hair and makeup professionals aren’t paid enough to also be an actor’s therapist — nor are they trained for it. A growing wave of intimacy coordinators are. Amanda Edwards has been an intimacy ...

Earlier this year—Valentine’s Day weekend, to be precise—I found myself sitting on the floor of a loft in downtown Los Angeles with eight other adults, learning how to fake an orgasm. We had been told ...

After the height of the #MeToo movement, intimacy coordinators — specialists making sure actors and others on set feel comfortable while filming intimate scenes — became more of the norm. From Sex ...

Actors’ union SAG-AFTRA is making a bid to represent intimacy coordinators employed by companies in the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation ...

Intimacy coordinators have unanimously elected to unionize under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Members of the bargaining unit voted 100% in favor of ...

Cancer changes so much more than just your physical health—it also affects your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of self. One of the biggest challenges for survivors and their partners is ...

In a society with sexual imagery everywhere, true, sustained intimacy is a rarity. Ironically and paradoxically, the more society celebrates sexual liberation, the more elusive genuine intimacy ...

"I can't live like this anymore! He doesn’t talk to me. He doesn’t touch me. He doesn’t see me!" Sasha cries, wiping her nose with a tissue. Simon looks away; he's heard this a million times. I decide ...