Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide

Sharing sexual intimacy and love making with your significant other can be such a profound and prominent way to express love and passion within your bond. And yet, there are so many things that make the process of coming together in an open, flexible, and engaged way challenging.  (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear explanations, stories and examples.)  In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses:  How our expectations, assumptions and judgements influence our experience sexually.  What differentiation has to do with sexual fire and passion.  How couples get stuck in gridlock and sexual difficulties.  The fears, shame, anxieties, trauma, and stress that affect our ability to be available and present sexually.  The ways our attachment strategies show up in our love making.  How safety in the relationship helps partners be more present, expressed and engaged in erotic play.  "Worry and distraction do not make for expansive, fulfilling sex. Sealed-off sex tends to be erot