Additional Questions: Intimacy and Sexuality with BJ Miller and Karen Schanche

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Written By Fei Wu

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BJ Miller and Karen Schanche address additional questions on intimacy, sexuality and sensuality as relates to serious illness and disability.

Show Notes:

0:00 Introductions

0:48 What to do when you’re not able to move on romantically after the loss of a partner?

4:50 What to do when a physical aspect of a partner is repellent?

6:20 Switching between caregiver and romantic partner role

6:40 Feelings of physical repulsion and how to talk about them

7:25 How appearance can be mixed up into intimacy

8:40 Understanding “performance” as relates to intimacy

9:45 What’s it like to see each other again as romantic partners, without medical urgency

11:00 Working with a “new” body, feel free to experiment and try new things

11:45 Naming what’s causing an interruption in intimacy: communicate!

12:50 New ways to bring in physical touch to your relationship

13:30 Partners who do not touch: how to use the other senses as stimulus to enjoy a pleasurable moment

16:30 How to bring up topics of sex and intimacy with your doctor

19:12 Find a nurse to help you advocate for your sexual health

 

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Fei Wu

Fei Wu is the creator and host for Feisworld Podcast. She earned her 3rd-Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, persisting when the other 8 year-olds quit the hobby. Now she teaches kids how to kick and punch, and how to be better humans.

She hosts a podcast called Feisworld which attracts 100,000 downloads and listeners from 40 different countries. In 2016, Fei left her lucrative job in advertising to build a company of her own. She now has the freedom to help small businesses and people reach their goals by telling better stories, finding more customers and creating new revenue streams.

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