Topics · Intimacy · 10 episodes, 7 guests
Your body may be asking for something different, like gentleness, slowness and safety. Sit or lie down facing each other, gaze into each other's eyes, place a hand on your heart or belly and breathe in sync for a few minutes. You don't even need to feel close to begin. Beginning is how you get there.
Taking a moment to enjoy something totally and deeply, fully, completely for what it is.
Dr. Emily Jamea, on Episode 36 of Pleasure in the Pause
Here are a few of them, with the episode where we talked about it.
Gabriella joins Dr. Tina Sogocio for conversation about what it actually takes to keep love alive through one of the most destabilizing transitions a woman can go through.
Play episode 115Gabriella introduces one of the most powerful and underused concepts in relationship science: co-regulation.
Play episode 110Gabriella Espinosa sits down with Dr. Justin Garcia, evolutionary biologist, Executive Director of the world-renowned Kinsey Institute, and author of The Intimate Animal, to explore what the science reveals about love, sex, and intimacy across the lifespan, especially in midlife.
Play episode 88Feeling distant from your partner in midlife is common. Closeness often has to be rebuilt outside the bedroom first, in small, ordinary moments.
Read the articleFeeling close to your partner again usually does not start in the bedroom. When you are running on empty, closeness can feel out of reach even with someone you love. It is rebuilt in small, ordinary moments, a hand held, real eye contact, being heard, before touch or sex ever needs to happen. Read the article
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