Passion and Presence: A Couple's Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex Paperback – October 20, 2020

There’s so much value here for growing, strengthening, and/or restoring intimacy. The book is worthwhile just for its insights for couples to improve understanding, emotional support, and connection. Adding to this are multifaceted discussions for supportive, mature, and emotionally connected ways to find freshness and novelty in sexual activity for long term relationships. Very impressive work.

This book not only reads like poetry, it is also a manual for a vibrant erotic ife and how to live mindfully . Through her maps and her exercises, Maci Daye, gives me explicit directions as to how my partner and I can become aware of the patterns that keep us from being fully naked emotionally and sexually with each. She also guides us to invite what is challenging so that we can grow, heal, and companion each other in a rich, intimate life. I have given many copies away and will continue to do so.

I loved this book! Marrying mindfulness with intimacy makes so much sense, but it had never occurred to me how closely linked they are. Passion & Presence gives couples, even those who feel so stuck and disenchanted, a way forward. My husband and I have been following the insights from Maci's book and the change in our intimate life has been incredible. I never thought that after 16 years of marriage we'd be able to recreate and reinvent our intimate life. This book has been life-changing for us.

This book is amazing and gives couples the tools they need mature and grown in their relationship and sex life at any stage of life.

My wife and I have each only read a bit past the first chapter, but the increased experience of intimacy is already palpable. Looking forward to continuing to read and do the exercises recommended in the book.

The author offers an excellent summary of the focus of this book when she writes, “We need an alternative to this doing bias which dominates much of sex therapy as well as books and magazines. The answer is mindfulness practice. Mindfulness – awareness of the present moment – engenders an open and curious mind-state that allows us to relate to any encounter as if for the first time. Mindfulness can help couples experience novelty as a continuous feature of their sexual encounters, rather than relying on new techniques to heat things up in bed.”The basics of each chapter are: 1 – how couples move from enchantment to disenchantment to re-enchantment; 2 – developing a mindset of curiosity and creativity; not approaching sex as a performance test; 3 – exploring and making it past mental blocks; increasing compassionate connection; 4 – healing from trauma; 5 – exploring your desires; release from shame; 6 – using collaborative emergence to let go of routines and increase creativity; 7 – sex as you age.I have found mindfulness to enhance every aspect of my life, and sex is one area in which is makes a dramatic difference. My husband and I started our sex life with mindfulness, but over the years the mindfulness in sex diminished. This book has helped us bring it back. My experiences with mindfulness in other areas of my life did give me some insights into adding it back into sex on my own, but Daye offers so much specific information that is truly helpful and not obvious. A very worthwhile, even life changing, book. It is also quite helpful to my husband to have a book to read on this topic, as mindfulness comes less easily to him. This is not the first book on sex I’ve read, not by a long shot, and it stands out as being in the top three, along with Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life, by Nan Wise and Come As You Are, by Emily Nagoski.But that’s JustMe. (I received this product in exchange for an honest review, and that is what I have offered here.)

Passion and Presence: A Couple's Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex Paperback is an excellent book to read aloud with a loving partner. Following the exercises is sure to improve your relationship. It's written by a certified sex therapist and licensed professional counselor who has extensive experience working with couples in her practice and through her workshops.

This book completely changed my perspective on sex and intimacy. I had no idea how to approach issues I was having with our sex life, but this book really helped explain everything and the exercises in it were great. I especially loved the part about how to novelize your sex life and make things fresh and new again. I also struggle with mindfulness during sex and loved the part in here about this. Overall this is just a great book on emotional and physical intimacy that I highly recommend.

This product arrived destroyed. Would not recommend.