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TraviSky Solutions L.L.C.
TraviSky Solutions LLC
Publications & Media
Explore my publications and media to learn more about the work I do, my research interests, and my thoughts on love, intimacy, sexuality, and spirituality.
More Than Attraction: The Many Faces of Intimacy
What if the connection you’re craving isn’t about finding more love - but discovering more ways to experience it?
Many of us want deeper, more fulfilling relationships, yet we were never taught how intimacy actually works. You may love your partner but sometimes feel more like roommates. You may have a satisfying sex life yet still sense that something is missing. Or you may simply long to feel more seen, understood, desired, and connected to the people who matter most.
More Than Attraction: The Many Faces of Intimacy invites you to expand the way you think about human connection. Intimacy is far more than sex, romance, or physical attraction. It can be found in the conversations that make you feel understood, the experiences that become part of your shared story, the touch that communicates “I’m here,” the values that give your lives meaning, and the vulnerability that allows another person to truly know you.
Through relatable examples, practical insights, reflection questions, and interactive exercises, you’ll explore six dimensions of intimacy - intellectual, experiential, emotional, platonic physical, spiritual, and sexual - and discover which forms of connection are already thriving in your life and which may need more attention.
Whether you’re single, dating, newly partnered, or years into a long-term relationship, this book will help you recognize that meaningful intimacy isn’t reserved for perfect relationships or the lucky few. It is something you can learn, practice, nurture, and strengthen.
If you’re ready to move beyond simply being together and begin feeling more deeply connected, open these pages and discover just how many ways there are to truly know - and be known by - another human being.
Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers
Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers is a research-informed, reader-friendly guide that helps practitioners address sexuality-related issues with a variety of clients. Topics covered include the role of values in sexuality, sexual health and reproduction, relationships, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, sexuality and the lifespan, sex work and sex workers, sexuality in the ill or disabled, and being a sexually healthy adult.
Like an Egg in A Bowl of Cherries
A Year of Adventures, SARS, Wet-Markets, and Profound Realizations While Teaching in China
What do you do when the world you thought you understood turns out to be only one version of it?
In 2002, Travis Sky Ingersoll — a young man with a journal, a plane ticket, and more confidence than wisdom — left Buffalo, New York for Dalian, China, to spend a year teaching English. What he found there would quietly undo and rebuild everything he thought he knew about culture, connection, and what it means to be a stranger in someone else's story.
Drawn from handwritten journals and emails home, Like an Egg in a Bowl of Cherries is a memoir of full immersion — of dog restaurants and wet markets, of teaching in classrooms where the rules were nothing like the ones he knew, of living through the SARS pandemic in a country where he was unmistakably, permanently the outsider. It is funny, irreverent, and at times disarmingly honest about what it costs to really see the world from somewhere other than the center.
Travis Sky Ingersoll is now a professor of social work with over a decade of experience teaching cultural humility and anti-bigotry education. This memoir is where that education began — not in a classroom, but in a city where everything he reached for required a completely different kind of reach.
If you have ever wondered what it truly feels like to be the egg in someone else's bowl of cherries — this is that book.
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