Relationship Saboteurs

In the heterosexual Cinderella/cinderfella world, boy meets girl, boy dates girl, boy and girl move in together, boy and girl get married, boy and girl have babies and live happily ever after. In the real world relationships are tested and sometimes sabatoged by ourselves or our partners. Randi Gunther, PHD joins me for tonight’s edition of Sexy in Vancity Radio to chat about how to over come the ten behaviours that undermine love so we can live happier in the ever after. Tonight’s show at 10pm. Listen live at 101.9FM CITR or http://citr.ca

Lilith Fair Heals Communities with Music

Celebrate Canada Day by heading over to Ambleside Park in West Vancouver to partake in the Lilith Fair Concert. International acclaimed and home-grown Lilith Fair Creator Sarah McLaughlin will be donating $1 from each ticket to make the lives of some of Vancouver’s most marginalized women better.

Those dollars raised will be contributed to WISH Drop In Centre. WISH provides meals, showers, literacy, harm reduction, literacy, and health care to female survival sex workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. For those who wish to exit the trade, WISH offers programming to help them change their lives.

This starts with accepting them as they are every day. In BC the average age of entry in street life is 12 years old. In Canada it is 14. The women WISH serve experience poverty, homelessness, addiction, isolation, violence, and many other barriers.

Tonight’s show, WISH’s Executive Director, Kate Gibson will be chatting about Lilith Fair, survival sex work, sexual violence against women and what we can do – as a society about it through WISH’s mission and other concepts.

Tune into Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR at 10pm tonight. Or listen live at www.citr.ca.

Fibroids

Join UCLA professor Bruce McLucas, M.D. (who was on Sexy in Vancity Radio for Fibroids Awareness Week) and women across the country for a free live webinar about fibroids and treatment options, Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m. PST. The webinar lasts about one hour and the doctor will cover fibroids in detail, including menopause and fibroids, pregnancy and fibroids, surgical and non-surgical treatments such as uterine artery embolization and many other topics relating to fibroids. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions of their own. Dr. McLucas is the founder of Los Angeles-based Fibroid Treatment Collective (http://www.fibroids.com) and an expert on fibroids. For more information and to register for the webinar, visit Fibroid Treatment Collective www.fibroids.com or call 1.866.362.6463. Follow Dr. McLucas on Twitter @fibroiddoctor and become a Facebook fan at http://www.facebook.com/fibroids. About the Doctor Dr. McLucas is a Los Angeles-based OB-GYN who practices at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. One of the pioneers in developing uterine artery embolization, Doctor McLucas has had a career-long interest in minimally invasive therapy, serving as president and charter member of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy. Dr. McLucas founded the Los Angeles-based Fibroid Treatment Collective 12 years ago, and his team performed the first embolization in the United States at UCLA in 1994.———————————————————————–

Tweens, Teens and Everything in Between Show

Laura Mack from Odyssey Leadership and Child and Family Therapist, Alyson Jones joined me last night to talk about parenting as a leadership journey. The evolution from tweens to teens and everything in between can be challenging for parents and youth.

This episode  focuses the challenges of parenting tweens & teens about budding sexuality in our fast food social media culture.First time in recorded history the younger generation is leading us  as they are the forefront of modern technology.  The parenting as a leadership journey team will be discussing some of the ways we can empower and build strong leadership skills in an era filled of sexting, facebook gone wrong and much more. Some of the key points we touched on are:

- Creating Parent Centred Homes versus Child Centred homes

- Encouraging child’s autonomy but still leading them.

- How the evolution of the family structure has affected leadership in the home front

- Balancing how to accept the limits and make the child know that they are understood

-  Building community core through community safety net and community dialogue with other parents and children in our schools and neighbourhoods.

-  Social Media: How do we lead our children in  a realm where there are no concrete rules?

- Introduction to sex via exposure online

- Setting firm guidelines in regards to internet use.

- Young girls selling themselves as a brand via facebook

- Sexting and suicide

- Different styles of leadership with children

- Developing healthy relationship with your children

- Teaching children to deal with mistakes as opportunities

You can download the episode right here.

Tweens Teens and Everything in Between

Laura Mack from Odyssey Leadership and Child and Family Therapist, Alyson Jones join me tonight to talk about parenting as a leadership journey. The evolution from tweens to teens and everything in between can be challenging for parents and youth. Tonight’s show focuses the challenges of parenting tweens & teens about budding sexuality in our fast food social media culture. In many ways our digital era youth are leaders when it comes to social media. The parenting as a leadership journey team will be discussing some of the ways we can empower and build strong leadership skills in an era filled of sexting, facebook gone wrong and much more. All this and more on tonight’s edition of Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR. Listen Live at www.citr.ca.

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Pretty in Pink- Caroline

Ignorance is bliss. Just the other day, a high school friend and I talked about planning a John Hughes night.

Invitees: Our high school grad class.

Viewing List: The Breakfast Club 

Sixteen Candles 

Pretty in Pink  .

We agreed we would meet in a few weeks to see if the idea was feasible. In the meantime, I decided to start a John Hughes music play list. Imagine my surprise that the lyrics to the theme song Pretty in Pink  by the Psychedelic Furs had my name in them. I read the lyrics and had mixed feelings as the meaning of the song started to creep in. Maybe I was better off being ignorant.

Caroline laughs and
It’s raining all day
She loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place
In the side of our lives
Where nothing is
Ever put straight
She turns herself round
And she smiles and she says
‘This is it’

‘That’s the end of the joke’
And loses herself
In her dreaming and sleep
And her lovers walk
Through in their coats

Pretty in pink
Isn’t she?
Pretty in pink
Isn’t she?

All of her lovers
All talk of her notes
And the flowers
That they never sent
And wasn’t she easy
And isn’t she
Pretty in pink
The one who insists
He was first in the line
Is the last to
Remember her name
He’s walking around
In this dress
That she wore
She is gone
But the joke’s the same

Pretty in pink
Isn’t she?
Pretty in pink
Isn’t she?

Caroline talks to you
Softly sometimes
She says
‘I love you’ and
‘Too much’
She doesn’t have anything
You want to steal
Well
Nothing you can touch
She waves
She buttons your shirt
The traffic
Is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She gives you her clothes
These cars collide

Pretty in pink
Isn’t she?
Pretty in pink
Isn’t she?

Shine!

Might need to take a jaunt over the border to see Shine, the burlesque musical created in Vancouver

If you missed the sexy burlesque musical last summer, you need to cross border watch this soon to be cult classic created in Vancouver. Winner of the Vancouver Ovation Award for “Outstanding New Work”, Shine is the creation of the Internationally-acclaimed comedy cabaret duo The Wet Spots (John Woods and Cass King).

Last year during the creation process, they appeared on Sexy in Vancity Radio with the Screaming Chicken Duo, Melody Mangler and Norm Elmore chatting about the process of couples working together. You can listen to the episode right here.

 This production is a collaboration with Theatre Off Jackson and the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. SHINE: A Burlesque Musical  runs from July 8 to 18, 2010 at the Theatre Off Jackson. Tickets on Sale Now at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111305

Live A Life You Love

Dr. Susan Biali joined me for last night’s edition of Sexy in Vancity Radio to chat about her book Live A Life You Love. Some of the key points that came up during the interview were:

 Make sure your life plan you are following is actually your plan not what other people want for you.

Giving yourself permission to play.

Dating in Vancouver.

Finding your passion for your life and opening yourself up to the possibility of adding a romantic partner to that mix.

How to keep love growing during long term relationships. Avoiding the 7 year itch.

Giving yourself and your partner permission and support  to evolve into the gorgeous and wonderful human being that they are.

Letting that person continue to be the person you fell in love with. Not taking someone for granted.

Roles of men and women in relationships.

Taking note what we can learn from how  other cultures celebrate what makes women women and honoring what makes men men.

Home work – Working through the work books for Live A Life You Love with Your partner.

What we should teach our children to empower them as they grow into adults.

Give permission to explore what your “north star” is.

And much more. You can listen to the podcast right here.

Contest Winner

Congratulations to Karen Chemiak for winning a copy of Dr. Susan Biali's Book Live A Life You Love

Dr. Susan Biali on Sexy in Vancity Radio

Many of us live in the 9 to 5 world. We spend 8 hours a day doing work that is not fulfilling. We keep checking the clock to see how much longer we have to wait until the day ends. When we come home we are exhausted. We might plunk ourselves down in front of the computer for another four hours of chatting online. The thought of  having to do it all over again tomorrow might make one feel like not getting out of bed. If many of us in Vancouver chose to live this life, is it any wonder why the most common complaint about Vancouverites is “there is no one to date.”

 

Dating starts with self discovery. If you don’t know who you are and spend your days doing things that don’t make you happy, you might choose to date for the wrong reasons. It makes us feel alive when we are in lust or in love. Perhaps that sense of vitality should start with taking a good look in the mirror and seeing who looks back at you.

Dr. Susan Biali chats about how to Live a Life You Love - including time for romantic partners and yourself on tonight's edition of Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR

 

Are you a 9-5er? Are you hiding behind your high stress job and hectic social life? Do you spend  your days self-medicating with your morning cup of coffee and your night-time bottle of wine? I think regardless whether we are in a relationship, searching for love, and continually evolving ourselves, we are always searching for balance in our lives. Keeping balance in mind, what do we need to do to live a life we love?

 

You can find out tonight by tuning into Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR at 10pm. Special guest, Dr. Susan Biali will be chatting about the 7 steps we can choose to take to live a life we love for ourselves and for our romantic partners.

 

 On this week’s edition of Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM, Dr. Susan Biali chats to listeners about how to Live a Life You Love, find balance in your life and how to include a romantic relationship without losing yourself. We are giving away a copy of her best-selling book Live a Life You Love 7 Steps to a More Healthier Happier More Passionate You. To enter please leave a comment on this post about balancing life and relationships or RT @sexyinvancity  Giveaway: Dr. Susan Biali’s Live a Life You Love.

You must do this Before 10:30pm on Wednesday, June 9th and be listening to Sexy in Vancity on 101.9FM to find out if you are the winner.

Tune into Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR on Wednesday nights at 10pm PST. Listen Live right here.