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Herpes Opportunity

Herpes Opportunity•www.podomatic.com
Health & Fitness
When herpes ceases being a shameful burden, it becomes an opportunity: to change self-defeating beliefs, for authentic connection, for deeper self-acceptance.
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Herpes Opportunity Weekend Seminar participant interview 1

An interview with one of the participants from the very first Herpes Opportunity weekend seminar in Raleigh, NC, October 26-28, 2012. Transcript: I: So yeah, just like a general sense of the weekend. What was it like for you? P: I wasn’t really sure going in what to expect, but I came out a different person for sure. It’s more about your self. It’s more about really . . . it’s like self-awareness. It’s really finding out what makes you tick, what’s bothering you. Kind of I guess, just looking at...

Dec 05, 2012•19 min

Herpes opportunity interview 05

This interview is meant to spur your curiosity and offer a different perspective on the herpes conversation. This audio is free for your personal use only and does not constitute medical treatment, medical care or medical advice. It is for entertainment, education and opinion purposes only. Want to contribute your personal story to this conversation? Please email hello@thehopp.com.

Apr 25, 2011•3 min

Herpes opportunity interview 04

This interview is meant to spur your curiosity and offer a different perspective on the herpes conversation. This audio is free for your personal use only and does not constitute medical treatment, medical care or medical advice. It is for entertainment, education and opinion purposes only. Want to contribute your personal story to this conversation? Please email hello@thehopp.com.

Apr 25, 2011•44 min

Herpes opportunity interview 03

This interview is meant to spur your curiosity and offer a different perspective on the herpes conversation. This audio is free for your personal use only and does not constitute medical treatment, medical care or medical advice. It is for entertainment, education and opinion purposes only. Want to contribute your personal story to this conversation? Please email hello@thehopp.com.

Apr 25, 2011•21 min

Herpes opportunity interview 02

This interview is meant to spur your curiosity and offer a different perspective on the herpes conversation. This audio is free for your personal use only and does not constitute medical treatment, medical care or medical advice. It is for entertainment, education and opinion purposes only. Want to contribute your personal story to this conversation? Please email hello@thehopp.com.

Apr 25, 2011•52 min

Herpes opportunity interview 01

This interview is meant to spur your curiosity and offer a different perspective on the herpes conversation. This audio is free for your personal use only and does not constitute medical treatment, medical care or medical advice. It is for entertainment, education and opinion purposes only. Want to contribute your personal story to this conversation? Please email hello@thehopp.com.

Apr 25, 2011•34 min

The stigma of herpes can be worse than the virus itself

When first diagnosed with herpes, there’s an overwhelming feeling of being contagious and dirty … a sneaky suspicion that quarantine may be necessary. We need to start getting real with our priorities. The harsh stigma of herpes grossly misrepresents herpes itself.

Dec 28, 2010•4 min

4 things you can say to yourself to heal

All too often we tend to automatically identify with all the negatives about herpes. All those ways that herpes shows up as a block to happiness, fulfillment and pleasure seem to automatically bubble up in our heads. Being proactive around unblocking all of that is what these four reminders are all about. Use these reminders to say to yourself with all sincerity “You’re okay.”

Dec 28, 2010•4 min

Pictures of genital herpes: The psychology of comparison

It seems that it is human nature to compare. It’s definitely ego-driven, in order to see if we’re adequately keeping up with the Joneses — to make sure that we’re “stacking up.” We compare others’ experiences to our own hoping to see common ground. Let's think before we compare, especially when it comes to herpes.

Dec 28, 2010•4 min

Keeping a partner herpes-free can be super sexy

A sizzling sexy relationship — even contending with herpes — is in your future. And it all starts with your relationship to what herpes means to your sex life. 1) Is herpes a sex killer or 2) does herpes give a new perspective on trust, caring and support in relationship? Can you feel that difference? That is the first part of seeing it as a relationship strengthener. Sound a bit backwards? You’re gonna love this.

Dec 28, 2010•5 min

Herpes weightlifting

Do you see herpes as a dead weight in your life? Is herpes dragging you down with each step? If we don’t put awareness into our relationship with herpes, it will drag us down, much like if you were to strap a few hundred pounds of dumbbells to you and walk around life denying the weight’s existence. But where do people actually seek out weight in their lives?

Dec 28, 2010•3 min

Herpes and the victim mentality

The victim mentality means that you blame everyone else for what happens in your world. Identifying as a victim can arise with anything in our lives, but the initial stress and denial that a herpes diagnosis can trigger leaves the door wide open for the victim role to step in.

Dec 28, 2010•3 min

Herpes and ego identity

Who am I? What am I? Am I my personality? Am I the successes in my life? Am I the failures? Am I some combination of all of that? I’m starting to realize that all of those questions are secondary to the primary question of simply being. Herpes has been just one tool in my life for helping me recognize this on a deeper level.

Dec 28, 2010•5 min

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 in that by isolating herpes from others, you’re isolating you.

Dec 28, 2010•4 min

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.

Dec 24, 2010•7 min

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 feel like this is your secretive battle to wage?

Dec 24, 2010•5 min

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?

Dec 20, 2010•7 min

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.

Dec 20, 2010•6 min

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 anytime soon, ultimately the biggest “problem” herpes poses isn’t the physical symptoms at all, but the psychological.

Dec 20, 2010•4 min

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 can get back to our lives. But what if there was something important we were turning away from?

Dec 18, 2010•6 min

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.

Dec 18, 2010•4 min

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 is through.

Dec 18, 2010•5 min
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