In this episode, Intimacy Expert Dr. Alexandra Stockwell & I discuss Uncompromising Intimacy including answers to the following questions:
- Why is it taboo to talk about sex and intimacy?
- Do we have to choose between a stable, supportive friendship type of relationship and a fiery, passionate one? Or can we have it all?
- How does the show Sex / Life reflect the loneliness and isolation that can develop in a relationship over time?
- What happens when the romance in a relationship starts to fade?
- What are some strategies to experience sensory pleasure in all aspects of our lives?
- What are some non-verbal techniques that we can use to reignite passion in our intimate lives?
- How do we begin to reconnect with what we want and need?
- How can we gain confidence in asking our partners for what we need?
- What are some ways to become more adventurous with intimacy?
- What is the role of sex toys, erotica, and porn?
- Why is faking orgasm harmful to a healthy sex life?
- How can purity culture affect women's expectations of sex life?
- Aside from modeling a healthy relationship, what are some strategies to guide our children, especially adolescents towards health intimate lives as adults?
- What other resources are available to help us continue to explore our intimate selves and grow our intimate relationship?
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Alexandra Stockwell, M.D. is a Luxury Love and Intimacy Mentor, known as “The Intimacy Doctor.” She specializes in showing couples how to build beautiful, long-lasting, passionate relationships. She is the bestselling author of “Uncompromising Intimacy” and host of the highly acclaimed The Marriage Podcast.
For over 20 years Alexandra has shown men and women how to bring pleasure and purpose into all aspects of life--from the daily grind of running a household, to clear and intimate communication, to ecstatic experiences in the bedroom.
A wife of 25 years and mother of four, Alexandra believes the key to passion and fulfillment, intimacy and success, isn’t compromise--it’s being unwilling to compromise--because when both people feel free to be themselves, and know how to love and be loved for exactly who they are, the relationship is juicy, nourishing, and deeply satisfying.
Alexandra has been featured in the Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, USAToday, Cosmopolitan, Business Insider, FOX NEWS NYC, and many other publications.
Dr. Stockwell is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed a Family Medicine Residency at the UMass-Worcester. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has worked exclusively on zoom for years, coaching clients throughout the United and States and all over the world.
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For more from Dr. Stockwell check out:
www.alexandrastockwell.com
IG:
@alexandra.stockwell.intimacy
@themarriagepodcast
FB:
Alexandra Stockwell, MD
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