The Earth Moved, LLC is the relationship coaching and education practice of James R. (Jim) Fleckenstein. Jim is a researcher, educator, author and coach with nearly twenty years of experience in helping people improve their intimate relationships, most of it focused on consensually nonmonogamous relationships. From this experience, and a great deal of research into what does and doesn't work in intimate relationships, Jim developed his Affirmative Intimacy(TM) approach.
Jim's expertise has been recognized by invitations to present at 13 major sexuality/relationship therapy and research professional conferences since 2002. He’s also reached hundreds at over 20 lay conferences.
His relationship research has been published in a peer-reviewed journal and included as an academic book chapter, and he’s been interviewed in the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and on radio and podcasts. His first book, Love That Works: 38 Awesome Hacks for Amazing Relationships, debuted in December, 2019.
“Jim Fleckenstein is a long-time expert when it comes to the topic of creative relationship structures.” – Neil Cannon, Ph.D., LMFT, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor, Clinical Fellow, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
He is available for a limited number of individual/couples online coaching sessions and also offers group coaching and workshop opportunities on a periodic basis.