Swoon: Love Lessons with Julie and Gina (Swoon With Us)
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| 06 Jan 2020 | It Ain’t Me Babe: Compassionate Divorce | 00:34:51 | |
It’s hard to find models of compassionate divorce or conscious uncoupling in a world that often portrays one partner as the victim and the other as a villain after a couple splits up.On today’s podcast, Gina and Julie talk about the considerations couples go through when they decide to part ways lovingly. | |||
| 16 Dec 2019 | Santa Baby: Staying Connected Over the Holidays | 00:22:29 | |
It can be really hard to stay connected to the people you love most during all the holiday celebrations (and obligations) this time of year. This week Gina and Julie discuss several simple ways to connect meaningfully with the person who matters most. | |||
| 20 May 2019 | Attachment Styles and Your Relationship | 00:27:49 | |
Are you repeating the same patterns over and over again in relationships? How you bond with your early caregivers can affect how you partner and show up in relationships. In this episode Julie and Gina discuss the 4 main attachment styles and how they influence your current or future relationships.
JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: Want a place to cultivate relationship skills with advice and coaching from two intimacy experts? Join Gina and Julie weekly at www.swoonwithus.com for the tips, tricks, and tools your mama didn't teach you. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. ACTION STEPS: BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTS | |||
| 25 Mar 2019 | I Would Do Anything for Love But I Won't Do That: Low Desire Partners & Intimate Relationships | 00:32:21 | |
A lot has been said about low desire partners in relationships. It’s one of the most challenging and misunderstood dynamics in intimate partnership. So knowing how to sort the junk form quality information is critical. Let Gina and Julie help you understand why low desire occurs even in healthy loving relationships, and what you can do to address it. | |||
| 25 Oct 2021 | A Super Sexy Halloween | 00:29:03 | |
Halloween is known as a super sexy holiday for a lot of folks. On today's podcast, Julie and Gina explore the reasons this holiday is often a sexy one- and how to keep that sexy playful energy all year round. | |||
| 14 Sep 2020 | Fuck It: Coparenting During a Pandemic | 00:33:05 | |
This week Julie and Gina get real about all the stress of handling parenting relationships with a partner and how exponentially challenging it is during week number 748 of the pandemic. | |||
| 21 Mar 2022 | Ghosting sucks! Don’t do it. But maybe sometimes do it. | 00:37:59 | |
Julie, Gina and Jeff talk about what ghosting is, when it’s appropriate, why it happens, how to cope if you get ghosted, who they’ve ghosted in the past and so much more in this week’s very fun and very educational episode. Check out swoonwithus.com for more content from Swoon hosts, Julie and Gina! | |||
| 15 Jul 2019 | Feelin Myself: Masturbation is an Essential Life Skill | 00:34:35 | |
Masturbation is an important part of self-care, and being a better lover with partners. Find resources and action steps from the podcast on our show notes page at therapyden.com/blog/swoon-show-notes-episode-18 | |||
| 11 Nov 2019 | I Want Your Sex – How to Be a Better Lover | 00:21:35 | |
The first step to being a better lover is being interested in becoming a better lover. This week Gina and Julie walk you through the things they wish people knew about being a better lover with their partners. | |||
| 04 Oct 2021 | Listener Question: How do I lean into an amazing relationship that feels too good to be true? | 00:28:09 | |
Today's listener question asks about a new relationship that feels too good to be true. Join Gina, Julie and Jeff as they talk about how to open your heart and trust after being hurt. | |||
| 29 Mar 2021 | Desire Mismatch in Couples | 00:30:43 | |
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two Portland, Oregon-based sexperts in a conversation about the most common sexual issue couples face: mismatched sexual desire. | |||
| 07 Feb 2022 | I broke up with my partner and now I’m really struggling. Help! | 00:31:32 | |
Julie and Gina answer a listener’s question about how to get through the intense grief and loss after initiating a break up. | |||
| 08 Apr 2019 | Let's Get It On: Keeping Desire Alive in Long-term Relationships | 00:29:41 | |
Most long-term couples experience something called desire fatigue (the slow decline of sexual connection and/or activity the longer you’re together) but most couples don’t want to accept low desire as an inevitability. In today’s podcast Gina and Julie explore the common contributors to desire fatigue in relationships and the understanding you need to overcome this very common issue.
Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST | |||
| 11 Oct 2021 | Listener Question: My new partner has more experience with kink and group sex, I'm a little intimidated and don't know where to begin. | 00:26:47 | |
This week on Swoon Julie and Gina answer another listener question. Take a listen to hear tips about getting clear about what you want in a new sexual relationship, what to do when you are slightly intimidated by a partner who has more experience and also things to think about when you want to explore group sex. | |||
| 29 Jul 2019 | I’m Sticking With You: What You Need to Know About Codependent Relationships | 00:26:57 | |
Gina and Julie are thrilled to be joined by Jeff Guenther, LPC to talk about codependency! Do you wonder if you or your partner might be needy or codependent? Tune in to learn about what codependency really means. Check out our show notes for tips and resources at https://www.therapyden.com/swoon | |||
| 04 Nov 2019 | What’s Love Got to Do With It? - What We Want You to Know About Love | 00:29:21 | |
WHO DOESN’T LOVE LOVE?!? In this episode, Julie and Gina break down the truths they wish more people knew about love and break some of the myths about love so you don’t have to break it down the hard way. | |||
| 19 Apr 2021 | When to Break Up | 00:22:43 | |
Breakups aren’t easy- and deciding when to call it quits can be one of the most challenging parts. Julie and Gina break down some of the most common issues clients face when approaching the topic, and how to overcome them in your relationships. | |||
| 28 Feb 2022 | They're great on paper but lack chemistry. | 00:29:47 | |
Julie, Gina and Jeff answer a listener's question about what to do if you're dating someone who's great on paper but lacks physical chemistry. It's a classic questions and we think that we're able to get to the bottom of it! Join Julie and Gina at swoonwithus.com to sign up for their membership course. | |||
| 24 Aug 2020 | Bills: Relationships & Money | 00:24:53 | |
You know how hard it is for people to talk about sex? It can be even harder for some people to talk about money! Today Gina and Julie share some of the reasons money feels like such a taboo topic and then offer tips and tools to help you and your partner find ease and common ground when it comes to finances. | |||
| 11 Apr 2022 | When do you break up with your partner if they aren’t meeting your needs? | 00:29:15 | |
Jeff, Gina and Julie do their very best to answer the age old question, “When the heck should you break up with your partner if they just aren’t doing it for you anymore?” As always Jeff thinks he’s hilarious, Julie is incredibly charming and Gina gives the best advice. Leave us a review and tell us how wonderful we are! We’ll probably end up talking about you at the start of an episode! | |||
| 06 May 2019 | Honey, I'm Home - Division of Labor & Connected Relationships | 00:27:27 | |
Do you and your partner fight over the roles and responsibilities in your relationship? Does the division of labor feel equitable? Are you clear about your expectations? In today’s podcast Julie and Gina talk about one of the most common sources of conflict in relationships – Division of Labor! They'll share tips for exploring your default roles and ways you can create a system that works better for your relationship and lives!
Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST | |||
| 09 Jan 2023 | How to Break Free from a Sexual Rut | 00:20:06 | |
Are you ready to break free from monotonous, predictable sex and spice it up? This is the episode for you. In today’s podcast, Julie and Gina focus on the ways couples end up in a sexually stuck place and a few ways you can break out of routines that no longer serve you.
JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: Want a place to cultivate relationship skills with advice and coaching from two intimacy experts? Join Gina and Julie weekly at www.swoonwithus.com for the tips, tricks, and tools your mama didn't teach you.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, Ph.D. CPC is a sexuality educator, author, and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena
Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS: Join our patreon community patreon.com/swoonwithus.com for our bonus episode on this topic AND all the handouts and episode notes we mention in the podcast. BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTS | |||
| 03 Feb 2020 | All of Me - Valentines Day for Couples | 00:25:53 | |
‘Tis the season for Valentine’s Day. Join Julie and Gina this week to talk through the best ways to approach cupid’s holiday for people in relationships. | |||
| 12 Apr 2021 | Oral Sex | 00:26:49 | |
One of the most fun topics, and still most challenging to talk about in session is oral sex. Julie and Gina break down some of the most common issues clients face when approaching the topic, and how to overcome them in your relationships. Want to get your question answered on air. Give us a call at 971-202-0969 | |||
| 12 Dec 2022 | Tending the Erotic Fire in Your Relationship | 00:31:37 | |
How do you keep the romance, intimacy and passion alive in your relationship? This week, Gina and Julie are talking tending your erotic fire. Understanding your erotic fire will help you feel more connected to yourself and your partner. Listen to the episode for tips and tools to help you keep the sexual spark going in your relationship no matter how long you've been together. Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram. | |||
| 13 Dec 2021 | We moved in together and now I don't like him. | 00:25:08 | |
Julie and Gina answer a listener question about what to do when you move in with your new sweetie and then all of a sudden feel nothing for your partner. | |||
| 21 Dec 2020 | Joy to the World: Accessing Passion and Pleasure in a Pandemic | 00:24:47 | |
On today's show Julie and Gina talk you through creative ways to access pleasure in the pandemic new year. | |||
| 13 Sep 2021 | Listener Question: What's mine and what's ours? | 00:22:06 | |
Today Julie and Gina answer a listener question about finding clarity in a relationship when you have questions about what's yours and what's theirs. Wanna join the conversation? Join our membership community or call us with your questions about intimacy, sex, and relationships: 971-202-0969. | |||
| 23 Aug 2021 | Love Lessons (Live) With Gina and Julie | 00:32:11 | |
For two and a half years Julie and Gina have been curating their best resources to put together a program where people can join us to learn the skills of relationships most folks never learn growing up. Registration just opened, so today they're gonna walk you through the most important relationship skills you need for a solid relationship foundation. | |||
| 09 Nov 2020 | Chandelier: Keeping the Sparkle in Your Relationship (even during a pandemic) | 00:27:51 | |
Feeling disconnected or blah in your relationship? This week, Julie and Gina talk about ways to bring joy, pleasure and excitement into your life and relationship (even during a pandemic). | |||
| 09 Dec 2019 | All I Want for Xmas Is You: Healthy Relationships Through the Holidays | 00:28:29 | |
This time of year can be very stressful for couples and relationships. Listen in as Julie and Gina explore ways you can stay connected to your loved one(s) even amid the holiday hustle. | |||
| 22 Mar 2021 | Slow Jams: The Decrease in Sexual Energy During a Pandemic | 00:26:14 | |
In this episode with Julie and Gina, you're gonna learn to keep a slow cooker of erotic fire going through the pandemic- instead of letting it burn out. | |||
| 07 Oct 2019 | My Neck, My Back (Lick It): Oral Sex | 00:32:07 | |
One of the most fun topics, and still most challenging to talk about in session is oral sex. Julie and Gina break down some of the most common issues clients face when approaching the topic, and how to overcome them in your relationships. | |||
| 11 May 2020 | I Touch Myself: Masturbation May! | 00:36:51 | |
May is International Masturbation Month! On this episode of Swoon, Julie and Gina answer listeners' questions about masturbation and also talk about all of the benefits of self pleasure. | |||
| 26 Sep 2022 | Rupture and Repair in Relationships | 00:38:16 | |
This week on Swoon, Gina and Julie are talking about how to repair when ruptures happen in your relationships. Mistakes happen. Conflict happens. Disconnection happens. And because of that, knowing how to intiate and be receptive to repair is essential. Often people wait for things to blow over. Or they build resentment until things finally erupt. Join Julie and Gina and they share the steps you can take to see Join us on Patreon for more resources for relationship repair and connection. Take a class with us or join us for Love Lessons. | |||
| 21 Nov 2022 | Surviving Family During the Holidays | 00:31:09 | |
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Or is it? We know the holidays can be very stressful for a lot of people. Are feeling a little nervous about spending time with your family? Do you need some help getting clear about what you want during this busy time? Listen as Gina and Julie give you tips and tools to help you set healthy boundaries this holiday season. Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram.
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| 26 Dec 2022 | Listener Questions: How do I let my ex know that I've changed? | 00:23:22 | |
This week on Swoon, Gina and Julie created a special Q&A episode for our supporters on Patreon. If you didn't know this already, Swoon is completely funded by your support on Patreon. And one of the perks of joining us on Patreon is a bonus episode each month. This month we asked our patrons to send us their questions and we chose 2 for a bonus episode. We had so much fun answering these questions that we wanted to share one of the questions with our regular listeners too. This listener shared that he realizes he was apathetic in his last relationship and wants to let his ex know that he changed. Julie and Gina talked about different things to think about when contacting someone from your past. They also talked about how trust is built and demonstrated in relationships. They also answered a listener question from a parent who wants to know about conflict and repair in front of kids. You can find the answer to that question and the full episode on Patreon. Thank you so much for your support! Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram. | |||
| 02 May 2022 | How to be a better lover. | 00:35:27 | |
Julie, Gina and Jeff talk about all the different ways you can be a better lover. They skip over the clichés and pop psychology tips to get down and dirty about what really matters. It’s a must listen for anyone who wants to improve their skills in the bedroom. | |||
| 16 Mar 2020 | Staying Connected When Things Are Scary - Love in a Time of COVID-19 | 00:25:05 | |
Everyone is talking about the current coronavirus pandemic- and with good cause. But for most of us, it’s causing enormous stress to live in this kind of global uncertainty. Listen in as Gina and Julie talk about how to stay connected during really challenging times. | |||
| 15 Apr 2019 | I Want You to Want Me: High Desire Partners & Intimate Relationships | 00:27:07 | |
Being the high desire partner can seem like a simple problem form the outside, but people living this experience will tell you it's not that easy. You want to connect, share passion, and get your needs met, but you need to be careful to do it in ways that don't add pressure to what can often be a tense situation. Let Gina and Julie help you understand how to handle high desire in mismatched desire relationships, in loving consensual ways.
Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST | |||
| 26 Aug 2019 | Thank You, Next: How Not to Get Into the Same Bad Pattern Again & Again | 00:27:13 | |
If you realize you've walked into the same relationship pattern over and over again (and most of us have) this episode is for you. Tune in to hear from Julie and Gina about breaking bad relationship patterns. Show notes at https://www.therapyden.com/swoon Find a therapist at https://www.therapyden.com | |||
| 07 Mar 2022 | Love bombing. What it is and why it's bad. | 00:22:43 | |
Julie and Gina discuss what "love bombing" is and why it can be problematic. Find out if you're love bombing your new crushes and get some tips on how to ease into a healthier dynamic. | |||
| 31 May 2021 | Body Image, Connection, and Intimacy | 00:28:37 | |
Today Julie and Gina break down many of the ways body image impacts relationships with ourselves and with others. If you have a question you want to be addressed on a future episode, leave us a voicemail at 971-202-0969. | |||
| 17 Feb 2020 | Doin' It - Sexual Incompatibility | 00:40:51 | |
One of the most challenging issues some couples face is what seems like sexual incompatibility. In today's episode, Gina and Julie talk about how to bridge the gap when it feels like an impasse. | |||
| 27 Jan 2020 | Julie and Gina answer listeners questions | 00:24:23 | |
Julie and Gina answer listener questions. Q1: My partner wants me to talk dirty but I'm uncomfortable...help! Q2: What should I do if I experience a loss of attraction after my partner gains weight or has a physical change? Q3: My partner recently shared fantasies that I find shocking and some even disturbing. They're violent. Something feels really wrong to me about these. Do you have any advice that could help me understand? Q4: Should I get back together with my ex? | |||
| 24 May 2021 | Listener Question: What if my partner won't go down on me? | 00:32:26 | |
This week on Swoon, Julie and Gina answer a listener's question about what to do if you want something sexually but your partner isn't into it. If you have a question you want addressed on a future episode, leave us a voicemail at 971-202-0969. | |||
| 10 Jan 2022 | How to feel more confident on dating apps. | 00:27:19 | |
Julie, Gina and Jeff tackle the age old question of how to feel confident on dating apps. While putting yourself out there online can be nerve-racking and vulnerable, there are some practical ways you can feel better about the whole experience. | |||
| 09 Aug 2021 | Cultivating Aliveness with Flora Bowley | 00:29:08 | |
We are so excited to have artist, teacher, and author Flora Bowley join us to share lessons she's learned and taught about creativity, navigating change, and flowing through the journey of life from a place of real aliveness. | |||
| 04 May 2020 | Listener questions with Julie and Gina | 00:39:39 | |
How much time, energy, and money do you spend on couples work before giving up? How to know when fighting to fix a marriage/relationship turns desperate & destructive? Is divorce inevitable for some marriages or are all relationships salvageable? How do you handle pursuer/avoider (or distance/pursuer) dynamic in relationships? What's the difference between asking for reassurance from a partner vs. asking for consent? | |||
| 10 May 2021 | Relationship assumptions and how to shift them. | 00:22:07 | |
Julie and Gina dive into relationship assumptions, how they effect relationships and how to change them. | |||
| 19 Jul 2021 | Turn Ons | 00:33:23 | |
Knowing your own and your partner's turn ons are essential to being a better lover. Bout what if you're not sure what your turn-ons are? Join Gina and Julie this week to learn the dual control model of sexuality and how to learn more about your turn ons. Wanna know more? Leave us a voicemail with your questions at 971-202-0969. | |||
| 28 Oct 2019 | Call Your Girlfriend: Cheating, Infidelity and Affairs | 00:28:31 | |
This week on Swoon Julie and Gina talk about infidelity and cheating. They share some of the themes that come up in their office. They explain what “counts as cheating,” share some of the reasons people cheat and also talk about the possibility of repairing your relationship after infidelity. Show notes at https://www.therapyden.com/swoon
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| 13 Apr 2020 | Julie and Gina answer listeners questions | 00:33:31 | |
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| 10 Feb 2020 | Love Myself: Valentine's Day for Single People | 00:34:21 | |
It's easy to feel bummed if you are single on Valentine's Day. This week on Swoon Julie and Gina share different ways to not only survive, but also thrive as a single person on a holiday that is traditionally viewed as a couples-only event. | |||
| 23 Nov 2020 | Grow Old With You: Stages of Relationships | 00:28:05 | |
There are very well-known stages of relationship growth, today join Julie and Gina to learn where you are in the phases of relationship growth and what to do in each growing stage. | |||
| 03 Jan 2022 | What's the difference between a want and a need? | 00:30:31 | |
Julie and Gina answer a listener question asking them to breakdown the different between a "want" and "need." They'll help you figure out the difference and give you tips and resources on how you can ask for your needs to be met in your relationships. | |||
| 02 Jan 2023 | Sparkle: A Relationship Refresh for the New Year | 00:27:13 | |
Are you setting new year resolutions and intentions? What about in your relationship? Gina and Julie have created a framework to make your relationship better this year than it was the year before. We are going to look at your relationship strengths, the lessons you learned last year and create a relationship vision and action plan. Ready for a relationship that sparkles? Join us for Sparkle: A Relationship Refresh. Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram.
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| 28 Nov 2022 | Sexual Communication | 00:43:39 | |
Many people struggle when it comes to talking about sex. This week Gina and Julie are going to give you tips and tools to make sexual communication easier! They explore the stigma and challenges around talking about sex. They'll help you find the language that makes you feel most connected to your body and your desire. They explain the difference between sexual feedback and criticism They're sharing the importance of finding your yes and getting clear about what you want. Julie and Gina also teaching you about 3 sexual conversations to start having today. Communication is an important part of a healthy and satisfactory sex; this extended episode is a must listen!
Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram. | |||
| 08 Jul 2019 | Let's Talk About Sex: Sex Education We Wish Everyone Knew | 00:32:37 | |
When beginning this podcast, one of your host's greatest hopes was to dispel misinformation about sex and get some accurate sexual health and pleasure information out into the world. Listen in and learn some of the most important facts about sexuality we wish more people knew. | |||
| 08 Mar 2021 | Wrecking Ball: The Four Horsemen & Resentments in Relationship | 00:30:01 | |
For so many people tiny resentments build over years and lead couples to be distant and contemptuous. In today's episode, Julie and Gina are gonna spell out the research from the Gottman Institute on the Four Horsemen and resentments in relationships- and what you need to do about them. | |||
| 07 Dec 2020 | Desperate Times: How Not to Save Your Marriage | 00:24:17 | |
People try all kinds of wild ideas to save their relationships, today Julie and Gina talk through several of the most common ways couples try to make a save. | |||
| 24 Jan 2022 | How to be less intense and allow love to naturally unfold. | 00:28:25 | |
Julie, Gina and Jeff tackle a listener question about how to stop coming off as really intense while dating. The crew talks about how to be more grounded, thoughtful and deliberate while allowing love to naturally unfold instead of anxiously forcing it to happen. | |||
| 27 Jul 2020 | Paint it Black: When Your Partner is Depressed | 00:37:57 | |
If you've never experienced depression it can be really hard to understand what your partner is going through when they do. Today Julie and Gina will walk you through how to respond to your partner and support them when depression pays a visit. | |||
| 29 Jun 2020 | Ain't That a Shame: Shame & Intimate Relationships | 00:34:06 | |
Shame is one of the greatest hurdles to connection and belonging in human relationships. It's a huge problem in human intimacy, sexual expression, and relationship repair. Tune in this week while Gina and Julie break down the barriers to connection. | |||
| 16 Nov 2020 | Vision of Love: Creating a meaningful shared vision as a couple | 00:24:17 | |
So many couples are coasting or going through the motions right now. This week, Julie and Gina talk about not only making sure you are on the same page with your partner, but also how to get clear about what you both want and then move toward that shared vision. | |||
| 18 Jul 2022 | How to communicate! | 00:27:51 | |
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two internationally respected sex therapists every week for love lessons and real-talk relationship advice on intimacy, sex, and connection. Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swoonwithus Take our courses: www.swoonwithus.com/courses Join our membership: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST | |||
| 01 Feb 2021 | Love Myself: Cultivating Self-Intimacy | 00:31:21 | |
Getting to know yourself intimately creates a foundation for all the other intimate relationships you share in life. Join Gina and Julie today to talk about all the ways you can get to know yourself a little better. | |||
| 30 Jan 2023 | Our Closure Episode | 00:27:31 | |
On this episode of Swoon Gina and Julie talk about closure, endings, break-ups and saying goodbye. They talk about how to know when it's time to say goodbye and how even when it's right to end something, it can still be really sad. We are so incredibly grateful for your love and support the last four years! Thank you for sharing this experience with us and for making this podcast such a powerful and loving part of our work and our lives. Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. https://www.swoonpodcast.comhttps://www.swoonpodcast.com/https://www.swoonpodcast.comFind Gina on Instagram. | |||
| 26 Jul 2021 | Dating Your Anxiously Attached Partner | 00:34:29 | |
Am I too much? Lots of folks with anxious attachment styles often wrestle with this question in relationships. Join us to learn more. Wanna get your relationship question answered on air? Leave us a voicemail with your questions at 971-202-0969. | |||
| 02 Sep 2019 | Crazy in Love: Having Needs vs Being Needy | 00:30:32 | |
Are you worried about being needy? Or maybe you have a hard time asking for what you want and secretly wish your partner could read your mind. Today Gina and Julie discuss listener questions about the difference between having needs and being needy, and how to ask for what you want without being passive aggressive or nagging. Show notes at https://www.therapyden.com/swoon | |||
| 29 Nov 2021 | Our Favorite Relationship Green Flags | 00:29:55 | |
Jeff steps in for Gina and joins Julie to go over some of his favorite green flags to look for at the start of a relationship. The perfect episode for anyone who's looking for a new sweetie. | |||
| 31 Aug 2020 | Calling Doctor Love: So you want to be a sex therapist... | 00:41:07 | |
Do you want to be a sex educator, therapist or coach? Or have you wondered what a sex therapist or sex coach really does? On this episode Julie and Gina share more about their work and the paths they each took that lead to careers that make them swoon. | |||
| 07 Jun 2021 | Listener Question: Making Friends as Adults | 00:24:45 | |
In today's Swoon podcast episode we're talking about making friends as adults- and in the sort-of-post-pandemic world we're living in. You know who you are, leave us a voicemail with your sex, intimacy, and relationship questions at 971-202-0969. | |||
| 14 Jun 2021 | Listener Q&A about dating in a post-pandemic world. | 00:28:01 | |
This week on Swoon, Julie and Gina answer 3 listener questions about dating now that things are opening back up. Are you wondering how to go about dating now? Need some help communicating your needs if you are dating multiple people? Or are you wondering if the person you are seeing is stringing you along? Listen for answers to these questions and more! If you have a question you want addressed on a future episode, leave us a voicemail at 971-202-0969.
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| 05 Oct 2020 | I'm So Tired: Surge Capacity & You | 00:21:46 | |
Gina and Julie talk about your dwindling surge capacity during these crazy times and why it should matter to you. How is your depleted surge capacity impacting your relationships? What can you do to help weather this ongoing uncertainty? | |||
| 14 Feb 2022 | 10 questions to ask yourself before having sex. | 00:35:19 | |
Julie, Jeff and Gina talk about ten questions everyone should consider asking themselves before having sex with someone. | |||
| 06 Jul 2020 | The desire episode | 00:23:45 | |
Desire is a critical part of being intimately connected in relationships. Julie and Gina discuss how normal desire concerns are with lots of different people, how to deal with a lack of desire, why desire comes so much more easily early in relationships and three different approaches to desire issues in relationships. | |||
| 06 Sep 2021 | Coming Back After Erectile Dysfunction | 00:26:55 | |
Today we answer a question from a listener about how to recover from erectile dysfunction and get back into penetrative sex. Call us with your questions about intimacy, sex, and relationships: 971-202-0969. | |||
| 24 Feb 2020 | Love Story - Online Dating | 00:45:09 | |
Online dating is more the norm than the exception these days, but nearly everyone has a complaint or two about the process. Join us to talk about the resistance that can come up and how to make online dating work for you. | |||
| 22 Jul 2019 | No Ordinary Love: Deepening Intimacy in Relationships | 00:30:33 | |
When we talk about intimacy in relationships we mean more than just sexual connection- but how do we cultivate it when we feel intimacy is lacking? Tune in this week to gather Gina and Julie's favorite ways to build intimacy in relationships. Find links to resources and actions steps in the episode on our show notes page at https://www.therapyden.com/swoon | |||
| 06 Jun 2022 | Our interview with Terry Real! | 00:37:07 | |
We are joined by our biggest guest ever, Terry Real, who is releasing his book, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship Terry is a renowned family therapist and bestselling author of The New Rules of Marriage. Terry says that the way to save your relationship is not by working on yourself, but instead by working together. He talks about what he calls “toxic individualism” and how it gets in the way of healthy relationships. He offers skills that you can start integrating into your relationships right now and stories that explain all the concepts he details in his new book. Find out more about Terry Real at his website: https://terryreal.com/
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two internationally respected sex therapists every week for love lessons and real-talk relationship advice on intimacy, sex, and connection. Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swoonwithus Take our courses: www.swoonwithus.com/courses Join our membership: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com | |||
| 07 Sep 2020 | Pleasure Principle: Centering Your Partner's Pleasure | 00:27:33 | |
We’ve never met anyone who doesn’t want to be a good lover, but what does it really mean to center your partner’s pleasure in lovemaking? Listen in this week and find out. | |||
| 30 Mar 2020 | Dating during a pandemic | 00:38:59 | |
On today's episode of Swoon, Gina and Julie talk about dating during this weird new world we are living in. They offer information so you can discern if you want to start dating right now, and offer tips and tools if you are in the beginning stages of a relationship. They also answer listeners' questions about dating in the time of Covid-19. | |||
| 09 Sep 2019 | Hey Jealousy: Managing Jealousy and Insecurity in Relationships | 00:24:46 | |
It can be really disruptive when jealousy pays you a visit. Most folks would rather never feel jealous at all because it usually feels so terrible and overwhelming. Pick up a few really useful tools to manage jealousy so you don’t have to feel so bad with Julie and Gina this week. | |||
| 13 Jul 2020 | Communication Skills for Every Relationship | 00:29:13 | |
Hey, Gina just published a workbook about communication. Today we're talking about it and which communication issues are the most important to address in relationships. | |||
| 20 Jun 2022 | How to address money struggles in relationship. | 00:38:53 | |
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two internationally respected sex therapists every week for love lessons and real-talk relationship advice on intimacy, sex, and connection. Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swoonwithus Take our courses: www.swoonwithus.com/courses Join our membership: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a sex therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST
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| 25 Jul 2022 | How to cheat on your partner. | 00:32:45 | |
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two internationally respected sex therapists every week for love lessons and real-talk relationship advice on intimacy, sex, and connection. Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST | |||
| 08 Mar 2019 | Don't You Want Me Baby? Desire Mismatch in Couples | 00:30:40 | |
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two Portland, Oregon-based sexperts in a conversation about the most common sexual issue couples face: mismatched sexual desire. | |||
| 02 Nov 2020 | The Slow Down: Desire Fatigue | 00:23:57 | |
Desire fatigue was one of the very first topics Gina and Julie decided to talk about when they started this podcast because it's one of the biggest concerns facing long-lasting couples. On today's show learn what desire fatigue is and what you can do about it. | |||
| 08 Nov 2021 | Listener Question: Vibing With Someone New | 00:26:19 | |
This week we answer a listener question about how and when to try taking things slow in relationships. Join Julie, Jeff and Gina to think through the things you need to think about when you're excited about someone new. | |||
| 11 Apr 2019 | BONUS EPISODE: Julie and Gina answer listeners questions | 00:27:15 | |
In this bonus episode Julie and Gina answer listeners questions. Q1: How did Julie and Gina become so comfortable talking about sex? Q2: How can I still have sex if I am experiencing pain in my vagina during intercourse? Q3: How should I handle crushes that I get outside of my relationship?
Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST | |||
| 23 May 2022 | How to survive a long distance relationship. | 00:26:44 | |
Julie and Gina give great advice and practical tips about surviving and thriving in a long distance relationship while @therapyJeff basically offers nothing in this episode and turns out to be a real downer about long distance love. Maybe just skip over the parts where he talks?
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two internationally respected sex therapists every week for love lessons and real-talk relationship advice on intimacy, sex, and connection. Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swoonwithus Take our courses: www.swoonwithus.com/courses Join our membership: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com | |||
| 11 Jan 2021 | Questions About Exes | 00:23:01 | |
Julie and Gina answer listener questions about staying in touch with exes, once a cheater always a cheater, and how long to wait until you get back in the dating game. | |||
| 31 Oct 2022 | The Balance of Power in Your Relationship | 00:29:13 | |
This week Gina and Julie are talking about the balance of power in your relationship They are tackling division of labor, the invisible load, how you make decisions, who has power and who wants it. On this episode they share signs that your power is getting out of balance. They also give you ideas about how to talk about power in your relationship to make sure you are on the same page and no one is developing resentment. They are also hosting a Relationship Maintenance Pre-Holiday Call on November 12 that will explore the balance of power and getting on the same page as we head into the holiday season. Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram.
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| 16 Jan 2023 | How to Have Hard Conversations | 00:39:27 | |
Love Swoon? Support us on Patreon (and get extra goodies). Want more Julie and Gina? Join our monthly membership group or take our classes. Find Julie on Instagram. Find Gina on Instagram. | |||
| 25 May 2020 | I Want it That Way: Asking for what you want sexually | 00:29:39 | |
On this episode of Swoon, Julie and Gina share tips and tools for asking for what you want sexually. They give examples of what often goes wrong and then model different ways to ask for what you want so that all of your fantasies come true. | |||
| 03 Jun 2019 | Nonmonogamy and Opening Your Relationship | 00:37:59 | |
In this episode Julie and Gina discuss monogamy and nonmonogamy. They talk about different relationship styles, different forms of intimacy, relationship expectations and some of the ways people may get their wants and needs inside and outside of their primary partnerships.
JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: Want a place to cultivate relationship skills with advice and coaching from two intimacy experts? Join Gina and Julie weekly at www.swoonwithus.com for the tips, tricks, and tools your mama didn't teach you. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. ACTION STEPS: BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTS | |||
| 22 Jun 2020 | Shut up: How to be a better listener | 00:29:29 | |
One of the biggest reasons clients come to see us is “communication.” And often they share that what they really want is to feel heard and understood in their relationship. This week on Swoon, Julie and Gina help you learn how to be a better listener. | |||
| 26 Oct 2020 | What's Goin' On: Politics and Relationships | 00:31:51 | |
We've been getting a lot of questions from listeners about how to navigate difference of political opinions in relationships, just in time for the US election this episode we invited Jeff to join us to talk about how political difference is impacting relationships. | |||
| 30 May 2022 | How can I get closure? | 00:29:08 | |
Julie and Gina host guest @therapyJeff to talk about how to let go of a past relationship that you’re still feeling attached to. They detail practical steps you can take in order to get the closure you’re looking for. Now you can finally move on! You’re welcome! ;)
Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two internationally respected sex therapists every week for love lessons and real-talk relationship advice on intimacy, sex, and connection. Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swoonwithus Take our courses: www.swoonwithus.com/courses Join our membership: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com | |||