162. The Erotic Path to Freedom: Embracing Sensuality and Vitality in Your Life with Bob Gardner
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
Release Date: 01/24/2024
175. How to Nurture Passionate Relationships
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD discusses important considerations when it comes to creating fulfilling and passionate relationships. Dr. Alexandra describes how embracing failure and personal growth play pivotal roles in deepening marital connection. She emphasizes the value of learning from both failures and 'near wins' to achieve mastery. By analyzing potentially frustrating moments with curiosity and compassion, couples can reach new heights of intimacy and fulfillment. Also in this episode: Embracing and learning from failures...
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174. Achieving Peak Performance in Life & Love, with Dr. Ann Tsung
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD is joined by Dr. Ann Tsung for a deep dive into the art and science of achieving peak performance, in both our professional lives and our personal lives. The conversation transcends traditional concepts of peak performance, expanding into a more holistic approach to living optimally. The discussion explores the importance of enjoying moments of passion and connection with a spouse while maintaining momentum and advancement in a career. Such a balance requires aligning effort with the level of significance you give to...
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173. Unlocking Passion: How Confidence Shapes Success in Love and Life - Expert Advice from Dr Alexandra Stockwell
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into confidence and how it shapes success in love and life. She sheds light on the crucial role of self-confidence and how attractive it is within intimate relationships, and more specifically, how it plays out among ambitious, educated couples. Dr Alexandra explores the common scenario where one partner craves more from their relationship while the other seems content with the status quo. She provides guidance on how to reignite passion and cultivate a deeper sense of self-worth, emphasizing the magnetic...
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172. Navigating Evolving Desires in Marriage: Communication, Intimacy, and Growth with The Intimacy Doctor
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into the intriguing subject of evolving desires within marriages. The conversation offers a deep dive into understanding, embracing, and communicating our desires, especially as they change over time. Dr Alexandra touches upon the natural progression of tastes and preferences, illustrating how something as simple as a shift in food likes can symbolize the broader dynamic of changing desires. She then moves on to explore the more complex and sensitive evolution of sexual preferences within a committed relationship...
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171. Emotional & Erotic Intimacy Insights: Dr. Alexandra Stockwell Answers Your Questions
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, responds to questions submitted by listeners, providing emotional and erotic intimacy insights to help improve your marriage. The themes of the questions are varied, as they focus on the role of commitment when it comes to creating intimacy, the pursuit of individual passions and hobbies when a partner isn’t interested but wants to do things together, and the impact of birth trauma in rebuilding your sexual connection. Also in this episode: The crucial role of commitment in enhancing intimacy. The pursuit...
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170. Unlocking Deeper Connection: Dr. Alexandra Stockwell on Mastering Emotional & Erotic Intimacy Within Marriage
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, explores the critical role of adopting a growth mindset in mastering emotional and erotic intimacy within marriage. Offering actionable advice and insights that challenge conventional perspectives, she guides listeners on how to effectively engage their partners in conversations aimed at enriching their marriage. By positioning a growth mindset as a powerful agent for transformation, Dr. Alexandra encourages her audience to transcend the ordinary, with her strategies to enhance emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy in...
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169. Passion Play: Transforming Marriage through Creativity and Spontaneity
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD discusses rejuvenating and expanding erotic connection as an essential means for transforming your marriage. She invites educated and successful couples looking to infuse their marriages with passion and aliveness to embrace unfamiliarity and creativity. Dr. Alexandra draws on her personal and professional experience to offer listeners unique perspectives on cultivating a deeply intimate and satisfying marital bond. She stresses the importance of spontaneity and letting go of control as keys for deepening...
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168. Unlocking Deeper Connection: The Power of Small Gestures in Marriage
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into the profound impact that small, thoughtful gestures can have on creating a deeper connection in marriage. She emphasizes that such acts don’t have to be expensive or time-consuming, as the smallest deeds are sometimes the most significant in nurturing a deep connection between partners. Put differently, small gestures are the seeds which grow into emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy blossoms. Dr. Alexandra brings up the concept that 'Small is Beautiful,' explaining how minor, deliberate actions—like...
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167. The Art of Listening with Love: Foundation for a Passionate Marriage
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into the importance of communication and how essential it is in creating a passionate marriage. She describes ways to adjust how you listen so as to evoke more depth, meaning, and intimacy in what your partner shares with you. Dr. Alexandra is a seasoned expert when it comes to fostering deep connection in couples. Drawing on her experience as a physician, relationship and intimacy coach, and her own 27-year marriage, she describes common misconceptions that often play out in marital discourse and how to avoid...
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166. Revitalize Your Marriage: Learn to Invest in Emotional and Erotic Intimacy
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, invites educated, successful couples to revitalize their marriage as she guides them to experience new heights of emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy. Emphasizing the unique nature of investing when it comes to your relationship, Dr. Alexandra describes how such investments yield both immediate and long-term returns. Through personal anecdotes and testimonials, she encourages listeners to nurture their marriages, detailing the transformational journey involved in going from a good relationship to a great one....
info_outlineIn this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, invites Bob Gardner to share his innovative and intriguing perspective on cultivating passion and aliveness in relationships. Bob shares his transformational journey from enduring years of shame and personal distress to removing the inner shackles and attaining the zenith of inner freedom. His teachings, influenced by the resilient ethos of Russian Cossacks, revolve around alchemizing one's bodily and emotional responses to stress. Bob emphasizes the power of direct experience and the liberation from internal constraints, affirming that freedom is indeed a learnable skill, one that stokes passion for life and relationship.
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Understanding the separation between one's thoughts and reality is key to experiencing life beyond self-imposed limitations.
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Freedom from internal tensions can be learned and embodied, rather than just tolerated or willed through.
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Bob Gardner explains the significance of training the body and mind to respond calmly to stressful stimuli through rigorous practices.
About Bob Gardner:
Bob Gardner is the Founder of The Freedom Specialist, a body-based approach to happiness, health, and well-being on auto-pilot. He is also the author of the book Built for Freedom and host of the podcast Alive and Free.
After 18 years of being trapped in addictive patterns, and on the brink of both divorce and suicide, something inside Bob told him it was not time to quit just yet. So, against the prevailing wisdom that said these problems are permanent, Bob chose to create a way to permanently eliminate them from his life. His body-based, no-nonsense approach to freedom has since helped thousands of people leave their struggles behind and find real freedom and happiness.
Visit his website: http://www.thefreedomspecialist.com
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