Intimacy in Midlife
Episode 6 season 4: Heather England on Keeping the Romance Alive in Your Relationship
If you’re in a relationship, you’ll want to listen to this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman. Host Elizabeth Cush talks with Heather England, PhD, about sex and intimacy in midlife.
“You can tell your partner how to load the dishwasher. How come you can’t tell them what to do sexually?”
Show Notes:
If you’ve reached midlife, you know that your body has changed. So has your partner’s. For one, things don’t work the same way they did in your younger days. How has that affected your sex life? And if your sex life isn’t great for one or both of you, how has that affected your relationship? And what can you do about it? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Dr. Heather England, a licensed clinical psychotherapist and a certified sex therapist for an open and unencumbered discussion about sex and intimacy as we grow older. They talk about challenges to physical intimacy that midlife couples face and how to address them in order to have a closer and more fulfilling relationship on every level at any age.
Listen and learn:
notes
Why we don’t talk about sex—and why we should
3 significant ways that reaching midlife can impact a sexual relationship
Why it might be time to redefine what sex is for you
The myth that keeps some women having intercourse even when they don’t want to.
What to do when you and your partner are on different sexual paths
Which conversations you need to have if there’s a “desire discrepancy,” and how to have them
Why it might make sense to schedule sex
Why erectile dysfunction drug commercials aren’t doing anyone any favors
Dr. England’s top tip for strengthening your relationship or improving sexual intimacy
Learn more:
Dr. Heather England on LinkedIn
Dr. Heather England on Instagram
Love Filled Life community on Facebook
Biz Interviewed on the Great Sex Podcast
Guided meditations on Insight Timer
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