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Female Intimacy And Sexuality

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Understanding female intimacy and sexuality helps women understand their inner landscape and desires better. This is critical to women’s wellness. The concept of intimacy and sexuality is vague to many and is often disregarded because it is not seen as essential. Let me explain why it is important to know what female intimacy and sexuality is and how understanding them better is vital to your well-being as a woman. What is intimacy? Intimacy is being physically close. Although this is true, it is not exclusively limited to this definition, but may also include emotional closeness. Intimacy is also not just closeness that occurs during sexual intercourse. There are many ways one may experience intimacy. One may be intimate with or experience intimacy with different people; it is not just between lovers, spouses, or significant others. You can be intimate with your kids, family members, friends, or anyone with whom you are vulnerable. This is a salient characteristic of being intimate, v

What To Expect During Women Relationship Counseling?

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 Are your emotions all over you? Do you feel you are at war with your own thoughts before your partner? If you can’t think straight and want to consider a marriage counseling, preferably, women's relationship counseling can be a better step.  Women’s relationship counseling involves only you and like-minded people from the community. Yes, in women's relationship counseling, you don’t have to go through the turmoil alone. You find like-minded women who are either dealing with the same issues or are helping other women deal with similar issues they experienced.  In either case, here is what you can expect during women’s relationship counseling • Ability to show self-love The top priority of women's relationship counseling is feeling loved. Feeling loved doesn’t start with seeking love from others but loving yourself first. It starts with accepting your flaws and seeing the positives in them.  When you start to love yourself, you increase your chances of getting loved. This

Practices To Achieve Self-Intimacy

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In general terms, self-intimacy is about understanding your body well physically. In other words, it often starts with the onset of radical self-love. When connecting to radical self-love, it is about understanding your inner thoughts and the process of feeling better about yourself. Feel joy within yourself. Be totally content with your life and where you are in life. That’s radical self-love. Why Is Self-Intimacy Important? Self-intimacy is utterly important to build a healthier relationship with people around you. As a partner, it is essential to understand yourself better to portray your true feelings to someone else. Understanding yourself helps you express yourself better to your loved ones.  Self-intimacy allows you to recognize your emotions well and act accordingly to follow such emotions. This also enables you to respond to situations better by stopping to assess the situation.  Self-intimacy also allows people to know how they deserve to be treated. This will enable them to

Elements Of Sexual Empowerment

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Sexual empowerment is a recent phenomenon that helps people to understand their own desires and pleasures. Oftentimes these are missing elements in one’s sexual education. If any is given, the focus is often on abstinence, safety, or prophylactics. However, pleasure is our birthright and desire helps us claim it. Many folks engage in unfulfilling sexual activities, expecting or hoping that their partners know more. Yet others know there is something more, but are unclear how to attain that. Sexual empowerment coaching is a path forward.  Here are some steps in the process. Know your sexual story List the story of what sexuality is to you. This is your own personal history. Write it all down including what you liked, what you didn’t like, that all informs who you are today and how you show up. List the solo and/or partners you’ve had. Catalog not only what you’ve experienced until now, but also your expectations as well. Great job! Also list any sexual beliefs you hold- limiting or othe

Understanding Sexual Empowerment And The Importance

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 Sexual empowerment is a process that involves knowing one’s body more fully in terms of sexual intimacy. Here, sexual empowerment isn’t only referenced as being sexually intimate with your partner. Instead, sexual empowerment’s goal is to make sexual activity pleasurable for yourself first, claiming that for you. Period.  Sexual empowerment focuses more on understanding your body’s physical needs and pleasures for your pleasure’s sake. It aims at promoting healthier, closer, and purer sexual relationships. Sexual empowerment encourages sexual intimacy from an open mind and expands its meaning to more than just being sexually active.  It repurposes what sexually empowered means being and how being aware of the same can change sexual intimacy.  Sexual empowerment considers some life-changing aspects that one needs to keep in mind when being a sexual relationship. These include: • One should be sexually intimate with oneself first before being intimate with another • Discover your wa

What Are Sexuality And Intimacy?

When you first hear these words, maybe the only thing that resonates in one’s mind is sex, (the behavior), and an intimate relationship. However, sexuality and intimacy are much more than just the act of sexual intercourse with another. Sexuality and intimacy begin with you. They are both enhanced by knowing who you are, how you experience pleasure, and knowing your body and its needs better. Sex is the act and sexuality is the way you express yourself, truly who you are. You are a sexual being. You may express your sexuality by the way you groom yourself, what you wear, or how you walk. Similarly, intimacy is not only about being in a close relationship with someone specific. You can be intimate with anyone. It is defined as emotional and physical closeness with someone or yourself. It is about showing love and being loved. It is about experiencing the value of the other person in your life or about your own. Imagine holding an infant. For many, that’s an intimate, precious experience