Why Do I Love My Partner But Don’t Want to Have Sex With Them? If you find yourself lying in bed, looking at the person you love most in the world, and wondering, “Why do I love my partner but don’t want to have sex with them?” …please take a deep breath. Experiencing low desire
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Pleasure as a Pathway to Healing, Not Performance When you look at the news and feel like the world is on fire, prioritizing physical joy might seem trivial or even indulgent. How can we justify turning our attention to sensation when there is so much chaos around us? But if we pause and rethink what
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Spontaneous vs. Responsive Desire: The Science of How to Get in the Mood for Sex In this blog: arousal, desire, getting in the mood, “Come As You Are” by Emily Nagoski How many times have you sat on the couch, looked at your partner, and thought, “I love them, but I am just completely not
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If you have been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), or suspect you might have it, you are witnessing a historic pivot in women’s healthcare. A landmark global consensus published in The Lancet and backed by over 50 professional organizations, including the Endocrine Society, formally renamed PCOS to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS). For decades,
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We live in an intensely heady culture. Most of us spend our days trapped above the neck in analyzing, overthinking, and relying on mental processes to navigate our lives. In doing so, we frequently overlook the deep somatic intelligence residing in the lower body. I am specifically talking about the gut and the womb. While
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From Secret Boyfriends to Fake Affairs: A Sex Therapy Take on Netflix’s Big Mistakes If you spent your weekend glued to the couch binging Dan Levy’s hilarious and chaotic new Netflix comedy, Big Mistakes, you are definitely not alone. Between the wild plot twists and the snappy dialogue, the show is an absolute goldmine of
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Why Stress Kills Your Sex Drive: How Cortisol Steals Your Libido This blog covers: somatic sex therapy · hormones · nervous system · libido · stress and desire If you have been stressed out and completely not in the mood for sex, you are not broken. Your body is doing exactly what it was designed
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Ancestral Healing: Are You Carrying Your Grandparents’ or Parents’ Sexual Trauma? Eight years ago, I took a road trip with my mother to visit family in Arizona. On that drive, the landscape of my life changed forever. It was during those hours on the road that I learned about our family’s hidden secret: a history
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How to Get Out of Your Head During Sex: 5 Simple Somatic Practices Getting in the mood can be complex. In our busy lives of juggling work, kids, family, and fluctuating energy levels, it is completely normal to find your mind drifting to your to-do list right when you want to be intimate. If you’ve
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Why is Sex Painful? Finding a Path Back to Pleasure “Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.” — Socrates Socrates was onto something thousands of years ago: pain and
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