3 Reasons Partners Should Seek Intimacy Coaching
Feeling stuck in a negative cycle of tension, disconnect, and sexual dissatisfaction? Intimacy coaching could be the remedy to your relationship ruins
3 Reasons Partners Should Seek Sex, Relationship, and Intimacy Coaching
By Jamie Azar, Certified Sex and Relationship Coach
Let’s face it. We can’t always solve all of our problems on our own, especially when we get stuck in negative feedback loops, patterns of dysfunction, or when we become normalized to homeostatic rupture in our relationships. Way may find bouts of relief from on-going tension, dissatisfaction, or resentment, yet the same problems persist.
Reactivity, criticism, stonewalling, defensiveness, accusations, and blame can all emerge as persevering patterns that hijack connection and pleasure in our relationships.
Our primal defense systems to protect rear their heads and we’re left feeling like ghosts to each other, roommates living parallel lives, while everyone’s yearning to be seen, to be held, and to have the space to express the depths of their erotic passions and desires.
The incredible thing about patterns is they are designed to be broken and can easily be rewritten. A sex, relationship, and intimacy coach can make the invisible visible by unveiling the blocks and barriers to pleasure and intimacy, recommending new systems to undo and rewrite those patterns into new systems of behavior and avenues for relating, and give you the erotic and sexual tools to explore novelty and expansive sexuality in new ways to rewrite your relationship narrative and cultivate satisfaction and renewed vitality into your relationship.
Here are the 3 most cited reasons people work with a sex, relationship, and intimacy coach based on my own personal experience:
Improved Communication
Obviously, right? Well, sometime this is easier said than done. Healing destructive and persistent communicative relationship patterns can take months or even years of work for some people. And this is not something to be ashamed of. Years of conditioning, reactivity, resentment, and unhealed pain and trauma can color the words we use, the tones we use, and how we approach our partners and how we make them feel. Are you struggling to communicate calmly? Does reactivity, anger, or rage prevent you from truly listening to your partner(s) and understanding them? On going conflict and debilitating cycles of rupture can feel traumatic and leave many people feeling helpless or even worse, completely invisible or silenced in their own relationship(s). If this resonates with you, you and your partner(s) could benefit greatly from working with a sex, relationship, or intimacy coach.
Heal Shame and Trauma
Healing from trauma takes time. It is normal for negative thoughts, emotions, flashbacks, nightmares, and other feelings to surface throughout the healing process. There is no time limit to healing; you may experience these feelings immediately, months down the road, or even years later. Sometimes they can come back even if you haven’t experienced them for a while. This return can make it feel like nothing has changed, and when we start thinking this way it is helpful to remember healing is cyclical. Each time we revisit these feelings we can learn more about ourselves and open ourselves up to greater healing and pleasure. Sharing our deepest feelings, vulnerabilities, and expressing and integrating our pain in a safe space with a qualified professional can be deeply liberating and healing for all partners and foster greater empathy, sensitivity, and understanding of ourselves and our partners.
Become Sexually Empowered and Enjoy the Sex You’re Having!
Removing barriers and blockages to pleasure like shame, trauma, and unresolved relational conflict can be sexually liberating and empowering. Working with a coach can help you find your sexual voice, communicate your desires more clearly, directly, and enthusiastically. Expanding your definitions of sex and pleasure, cultivating your relationship with self-pleasure, and exploring novelty with your partner can add excitement and enhance sexual satisfaction. Attending regular sessions with a coach ensures that cultivating intimacy and prioritizing a sexual and erotic connection is and on-going, dynamic, and fluid process. From being a sounding board, offering new suggestions, and upholding accountability between sessions, folks consistently report higher sexual satisfaction, improved self-confidence, and greater desire from prioritizing pleasure in their lives and having a third party to celebrate their evolution and growth both individually and relationally, and give them some new spicy ideas along the way.
I’m not here to convince you to work with me. That’s not the point of this article. I’m here to remind you that your pleasure matters. That you deserve to be happy in whatever relationship style, structure, or agreements you find yourself. You deserve to feel erotic in your body, to feel deserving of your right for asking for what you want, exactly how you want it, and discovering what that looks like and how that might change, how you might change through that process.
We don’t have to settle for mediocre sex. We don’t have to feel insivible, silenced, or insiginificant in our relationships. We can find agency, sovereignty, and liberation in radical self-acceptance, self-love, and when we can fully embrace ourselves and our right to feeling good.
I would love to hear from you if any of this resonates with you. It starts with a conversation. I’d also be happy to refer you to other therapists or coaches who may align with your unique needs.
Speaking of Novelty…Erotic Literature…Your 🔑 to Unlocking Desire, Arousal, and Fantasy
JOIN OUR EROTIC LITERATURE CLUB…THINK BOOK CLUB BUT MAKE IT NAUGHTY! 🌶️🔥📚
I can imagine folks have a lot of assumptions about what this space might look like. Let me be clear, this is a safe space to explore the art of the erotic narrative, your erotic imagination, and break taboos in community.
What will you see in some of these erotic short stories?
✨Women being pursuant of their own desire, pleasure, and arousal
✨Diverse characters: women, black and brown folks, non-binary folks, queer folks, men, interracial relationships
✨Breaking taboos and imperatives around what sex, sexuality, desire, and arousal “should” look like
Will we just be discussing what “turns us on?”
No, not really. And sort of. We might look at quotes that made your heart skip a beat, a scene or character who defied your or societal expectations of self, sexuality, or pleasure, we might discuss your biggest character crush and what drew you to them.
And all of these stories and discussion help to:
✨reveal more about you and your desires
✨inspire new ideas for intimacy
✨cultivate connection with your partner(s)—-why not read it together or attend book club as a shared activity??
Why Join an Erotic Literature Club?
🔥 Explore desire and taboo through fiction
🧠 Analyze how intimacy and power are written
📚 Discover diverse, bold voices in literature
💬 Enjoy open, judgment-free discussions
🫦 Share guilty pleasures with like-minded readers
😄 Laugh, blush, and bond over steamy scenes
✍️ Get inspired to write or express your own stories
💖 Reconnect with your sensuality through storytelling
🎭 Challenge social norms around sex and love
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