Topics · Numbness & Shutdown · 5 episodes, 4 guests
Shutdown or numbness can feel like exhaustion, hopelessness and disconnection, and it often follows long-term stress or burnout. Apathy, flatness, hopelessness and stuckness are signals. That is what it looks like when a body has been running without permission to rest.
Here they all are, with the episode where we talked about it.
Gabriella welcomes back somatic psychotherapist, sex therapist, and author Carly Mountain for one of the most expansive and thought-provoking conversations this show has ever had.
Play episode 104Gabriella and Brooke Bralove go deep into what trauma actually is, how it lives in the nervous system, and how it shapes desire, arousal, and the ability to feel safe in intimacy in ways most women never connect.
Play episode 101Discover why your midlife sexuality isn't broken, it's evolving. Dr. Kelly Casperson reveals how to reignite desire and embrace pleasure at any age.
Play episode 28Feeling numb during intimacy is common in midlife and it is not a sign that something is broken in you. Here is what it means and where to start.
Read the articleFeeling numb during intimacy in midlife is common and it is not evidence that something is broken in you. Hormonal shifts, stress, and old patterns of pushing through can all mute sensation over time. Numbness is not the absence of feeling. It is information, and it can change. Read the article
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