e9: first comes love, then comes perimenopause
summary:
Relationships & Sex, but make it perimenopause! This juicy episode dives into sex, love, relationships, and the changes in your own capacity for giving and receiving these things. We're so honored to have shared a mic with Natassja Barnes, LMHC and Certified Sex Therapist, to discuss how changes in estrogen might affect your feelings around those topics. We're covering all the juicy stuff: how relationships change over time, how they change when hormones start to fluctuate, how the things that worked for you once upon a time are no longer doing it for you.
key topics:
relationships in perimenopause
sex in perimenopause & menopause
nervous system regulation and effects on libido
lifting the veil of estrogen - exposing our true feelings about things
sexuality and mental load
entering a new phase where likes and dislikes might be different from before
conflict communication in relationships