Hey there! I’m Marilee (like in the song Row, Row, Row Your Boat). Can I tell you something kind of embarrassing? I was in my 40s when I realized I was pretty clueless about sex. I knew how to have it, but I was cut off from my own views, from experiencing full pleasure, and knowing my desires regarding sex. Growing up, my sexuality had been built around my religion, and once I was married, it had become a reflection of my husband’s desires.

When we decided to separate after 18 years of marriage, I was terrified because here I was a grown woman, but I’d never made my own decisions about sex or my own sexuality.

No longer an active part of my childhood church, I was confused about what standards I wanted to follow and more than a little scared of what my sexuality would reveal if I stopped basing it on religious rules or the desires of my partner and started finding the answers for myself.

Scared but determined, I began a journey to better understand my needs, my desires, my preferences, and to connect with my sexuality…for myself.

100s of hours of coaching, dozens of counseling sessions, over 80 books, and countless hours of studying, praying, meditating – and more than a few crying sessions later – I realized the answers weren’t “out there”.  Great information is out there, but it was only by filtering this information through my own personal and chosen values that I came to find the answers. My answers.

The answers for me were within me…just like the answers for you are within you.

As women, we are conditioned to turn to, help, and please others. But if we don’t learn to also turn inward to understand and meet our own needs, our cups run empty and our lives fill with resentment.

You deserve a truly full life – a life filled with what matters to you, founded on your values, and created by your intentional choices and actions.

That’s why I created the Shame-Free Sexuality Series…to gather guidance from amazing experts on pleasure, sensuality, communication, intimacy, sex, and shedding shame, and help you to find the answers that are true for you.