Renate Stendhal

Renate Stendhal, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer, writing coach and relationship expert in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Since her move to California in 1986, she earned an MA in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in spiritual psychology, but chose not to pursue a license as a therapist. Instead, she chose a spiritual path, getting ordained as a minister by AIWP, the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person, practicing a different kind of listening and intuitive, common sense conversation. In 2005, she became a provost at the University of Integrative Learning), guiding students through MA and Ph.D. programs that reward students for their lifelong learning. In 2010-2011, she became a certified hCG practitioner in the Dr. Simeons weight-loss protocol based on hCG amino acids.

In the States, Renate Stendhal published Sex and Other Sacred Games (Times Books, 1989), co-authored with her life companion, author Kim Chernin, with whom she also co-authored the portrait of a young opera singer, Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song (HarperCollins, 1997). She wrote and illustrated a novel for young adults, The Grasshopper's Secret: A Magical Tale (EdgeWork Books, 2002), and continued her reflections on women and eros with True Secrets of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships (North Atlantic Books, 2003), originally published as Love's Learning Place: Truth as Aphrodisiac in Women's Long-Term Relationships(EdgeWork Books, 2002). Her most recent collaboration with Kim Chernin is Lesbian Marriage: A Love & Sex Forever Kit (Lesbian Love Forever, 2014) a quick reference guide and handy toolkit for married and soon-to-be married couples. Renate Stendhal has been a writing consultant and editor for over thirty years for professional and beginning writers.

Renate Stendhal's work, articles, and essays have appeared internationally in Lambda Literary Online, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, The Advocate, Chicago Quarterly Review, Tikkun Magazine, Four Seasons Magazine, Epochalips, The Daily Beast, Travel Magazine, Centre Pompidou, Questia Magazine, Emma Magazine, and many others.

Her latest publication is the award-winning Parisian memoir à clef, Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir.

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Books by Renate

Gertrude Stein: Ein Leben in Bildern und Texten (1989)

Sex and Other Sacred Games (with Kim Chernin; 1989)

Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures (1989)

Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song (with Kim Chernin; 1997)

Cecilia Bartoli: Eine Liebeserklärung (1999)

The Grasshopper's Secret: A Magical Tale (2002)

True Secrets of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships (2003)

Die Farben der Lust - Sex in lesbischen Liebesbeziehungen (2004)

Lesbian Marriage: A Love & Sex Forever Kit (with Kim Chernin; 2014)

Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir (2017)

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VIEW TRAILER FOR AWARD-WINNING MEMOIR KISS ME AGAIN, PARIS on Renate Stendhal's Author Page.

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For more info see http://www.renatestendhal.com.

Follow her cultural reviews at Scene4, the International Magazine for Arts and Media: http://scene4.com/sc4bpaeo/stendhal.htm.

She blogs for Epochalips Magazine http://www.epochalips.com/?author=5228, and the Huffington Post ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/renate-stendhal-phd/