Herpes Opportunity
When herpes ceases being a shameful burden, it becomes an opportunity: to change self-defeating beliefs, for authentic connection, for deeper self-acceptance.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2012
The number one reason herpes shouldn't hold you back
People with herpes have a tendency to want to save others from getting herpes. Which is admirable. But sometimes it's taken too far. As heartfelt as this seems on the surface, it’s counterproductive …
00:04:18 |
Tue 28 Dec 2010
The herpes healing process
The key to breaking the cycle of shame and loneliness that herpes seems to bring is to normalize herpes in your life. Herpes gets its power from the power of secrets and isolation.
00:07:05 |
Fri 24 Dec 2010
Feeling alone with herpes?
Do you feel like nobody could possibly understand what you’re going through? When you look around, do you see everyone as free from herpes and you as the only one who is suffering with it? Do you fee…
00:05:23 |
Fri 24 Dec 2010
When to have "the dreaded herpes talk"
A lot of it comes down to how you yourself perceive the herpes talk. Is it a dreaded rejection-maker or is it an opportunity to go deeper into trust, authenticity and vulnerability?
00:06:34 |
Mon 20 Dec 2010
It's not about herpes
It’s not about herpes at all. It’s about who you truly are that herpes blocks from being. If you let it, that is.
00:05:43 |
Mon 20 Dec 2010
A herpes cure?
Occasionally the news will tell us there’s a possibility for a legitimate cure, but it seems just out of our reach sometime in the future. Whether or not the physical cure for herpes is coming anytim…
00:04:02 |
Mon 20 Dec 2010
Herpes and authenticity, connection, vulnerability, shame and guilt
People with herpes are confronted with a very physical and intimate version of shame on an ongoing basis. Our automatic reaction is to go numb and look the other way, waiting for it to go away so we …
00:06:11 |
Sat 18 Dec 2010
Herpes is a life teacher
Yes, at first herpes might seem like one of those teachers who was stern and cruel, but sometimes teachers push you because underneath that bratty kid they see something worthy of bringing out.
00:04:11 |
Sat 18 Dec 2010
I have herpes: the power of acceptance
Such a simple phrase, but can you feel how much power it has? “I have herpes.” When you say these three words, what effect do they have on you? There’s a way to move past these feelings. And that way…
00:04:34 |
Sat 18 Dec 2010
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