Acknowledging Support
Today’s blog is a tribute post to my loving husband of forty-years. When I was writing the content for the About Me page of my website, I deliberated long and hard about whether to include a photo of my husband and myself. I looked on other somatic sex educator websites and none even mention their relationship status let alone post relationship or coupledom photos.
Firstly, it feels important to honor my husband for his enduring support for me to train and practice as a somatic sex educator. He supports my public transparency, to an agreed upon extent, about revealing some of the difficulties about our sex life. I routinely speak about this personal disclosure as reason for my call to somatic sex education in the first place. And it has meant that he picks up on more of the household duties since I am busy applying my time to my calling as a somatic sex educator. And somatic sex education practice is edgy work, and so his support in this realm is especially appreciated.
Secondly, it feels important to include this personal relationship-status information about myself. My sexuality and all matters associated with it over all the years of my life does not occur in isolation. For most of us, there are others on our sexual journeys with us and they do play an important role in our lives. I would like to acknowledge this by acknowledging the significant other in my life.
And lastly, it feels important for me to build bridges linking the non-normative world, from which somatic sex education originates, to the normative world, to which I think it best belongs to support the most people. I know a lot of persons who operate in the normative world and could significantly benefit from the practice of somatic sex education, just like it benefited me.
My husband has approved the limited information I publicly provide about our sexless marriage for sixteen years and the content of this blog. I appreciate that my husband is willing for me to disclose this information for the purposes of relevance to my practice as a somatic sex educator.
My name is Wendy Scheirich and I am a proud somatic sex educator from Manitoba Canada. A common ethos of our modality is “Pleasure is Healing”.