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.