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176. The Pleasure Principle: Dr. Alexandra on Cultivating Passion and Wholeness in Relationships with Tilly Storm

The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD

Release Date: 05/01/2024

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In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD talks about transforming everyday experiences into pleasurable moments. She explores the nuanced world of delight and pleasure within relationship, offering actionable insights for couples wanting to enhance emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy. Dr. Alexandra makes distinctions in the best ways to pursue more pleasure when it comes to men versus women. She shares practical tips on how to incorporate sensual awareness into your daily life and how to enhance connection with your partner.  Also in this episode: ...

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In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD explores the vital role of intimate connection, when navigating struggles couples commonly encounter in their sexual relationship, particularly after facing significant life challenges such as infertility and loss. Offering gentle, compassionate guidance, she describes effective methods to recreate emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy. Dr. Alexandra discusses the challenges faced by couples when they experience disconnection during erotic intimacy. It often leads to functional sex rather than pleasure-driven passion....

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The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD

In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD and Tilly Storm, focus on the pleasure principle as they explore ways to foster passionate relationships and venture into new dimensions of erotic intimacy. Tilly has extensive expertise in women’s sexuality and guides couples to renew the spark and access more pleasure in their intimate lives. The two of them discuss "wholeness" as an essential ingredient for pleasure, ways to foster pleasure-positive attitudes in children, and marital challenges such as sexual incompatibility and how to talk about it.   ...

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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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In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD and Tilly Storm, focus on the pleasure principle as they explore ways to foster passionate relationships and venture into new dimensions of erotic intimacy. Tilly has extensive expertise in women’s sexuality and guides couples to renew the spark and access more pleasure in their intimate lives. The two of them discuss "wholeness" as an essential ingredient for pleasure, ways to foster pleasure-positive attitudes in children, and marital challenges such as sexual incompatibility and how to talk about it. 

 

Also in this episode: 

  • Normalizing the conversation around pleasure with children contributes to a healthier understanding of sexuality as they mature.

  • Couples often experience a "turn on mismatch," which should be navigated by learning and understanding one another’s erotic blueprints.

  • Guided sex experiences are a safe, exploratory space for couples to reignite their sexual connection and learn new ways to engage with each other.

 

About Tilly Storm:

When not at home in Hollywood, FL, Tilly loves traveling the world with her 2 teenage boys for the next hot surf spot, and going on personal growth and development retreats with her life partner, Chris. Tilly's been studying women’s bodies and sexuality for over 20 years, first as a pre-med biochemistry major and aspiring OB/GYN, then as a doula and midwife apprentice, and now as a somatic sex coach since 2017. After 350,000+ downloads on her podcast - The Multiorgasmic Millionaire, being voted one of the top 20 sex coaches in the world, and working with hundreds of paying clients, she's learned a lot about what it takes to help high-achieving women integrate things like lack of desire, shame, guilt, fear, and numbness and help them feel amazing in their body and sexuality.

 

Listen to my past episode discussing the Erotic Blueprints in detail:

https://www.alexandrastockwell.com/sensual-vs-sexual-exploring-the-mysteries-of-erotic-power-through...

 

Tilly's Erotic Explorations book club: https://www.tillystorm.com/book-club

 

Learn more about Tilly's 5 Days to Epic Pleasure & Passion free mini-course: https://www.tillystorm.com/5daytraining

 

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https://www.alexandrastockwell.com/book

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