Tom Bliss

Tom Bliss grew up in the Pacific Northwest and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Bliss is the co-author of the award-winning book "Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence". He graduated from Pitzer College with a self-designed major in "Multimedia Performance: Life as an Art Form." While penning his senior project--a symbolic play about a playwright being forced to show up in his own symbolic play--he was privileged to experience Samadhi, the supreme state of enlightenment through meditation. Upon graduating, he joined the San Francisco-based Chero Company founded by Frank Moore, the wheelchair-bound performance artist/shaman, whose marathon all-nude "Eroplay" happenings encouraged people to connect freed of social and cultural programming. During the next 15 years Mr. Bliss worked on both coasts as a multimedia performance artist and writer. In 2009 he completed the Parent Educator Certification Program in Non-Violent Communication (NVC) at Echo Parenting & Education. He has appeared as guest educator on the PBS series, "A Place of our Own," discussing topics ranging from emotional literacy to self-care for caregivers. For over five years, Mr. Bliss worked as Project Manager at Center for Healthy Sex, overseeing the corporation's first publishing venture. In January 2017, Tom Bliss was elected as Assembly District 51 Delegate to the California Democratic State Central Committee for a 2-year term.