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Guilt When You Hurt Someone

April 20, 2015 by ssradmin

This episode of Safe Space Radio features two stories about common types of guilt, often an emotion that nobody wants to admit to. One story is from childhood, the other from adulthood, and in both the teller hurt someone close to them, and has struggled to repair the damage to that person and to themselves.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: Bullying, childhood, emotional pain, Friendship, intimacy, meanness, Pain, relationships, romance, sex, Shame, stigma, Teens

Asperger Syndrome and Relationships with David Finch

April 28, 2014 by ssradmin

David Finch is author of The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband. In this episode of Safe Space Radio, he discusses how learning he has Aspergers has helped him to stop blaming himself for the difficulties he had in relationships, and opened up …read more »

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: autism spectrum, husband, intimacy, marriage, relationships, spectrum, wife

Life in the Early Stages of Alzheimers with Bill Verrill

November 11, 2013 by ssradmin

Bill Verrill, a former banker, now suffers from early Alzheimer’s disease. Bill describes his deep trust in his wife Shirley’s ability to take care of him—and his deepest fears about the toll his illness will take on her life. He remembers letting go of his driver’s license and learning to be more dependent while striving …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle, Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers, ambiguous loss, death and dying, Dementia, dependency, illness, intimacy, marriage

Trans Couples with Helen Boyd

March 23, 2011 by ssradmin

Author and gender studies professor Helen Boyd is married to a trans woman. She remembers her early courtship with a man who “occasionally cross-dressed” and how this evolved into loving her partner through her transition. Helen explores what it is like to be perceived now as a lesbian because she is married to a woman, …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle, Sexuality Tagged With: cross dressing, Gender, gender reassignment, husbands, identity, intimacy, Lesbian, LGBTQ, long term relationships, love, male to female transition, marraige, marriage, mtf, relationships, same sex marriage, sex, sex in marriage, trans, Transgender, transition, transwoman, transwomen, wife, wives, women, writer

Sexual Healing after Sexual Abuse with Wendy Maltz

January 5, 2011 by ssradmin

This interview is with couples therapist and certified sex therapist Wendy Maltz about the impact of sexual abuse on sexuality, and ways to reclaim pleasure, safety and intimacy. She reports that taking a vacation from sex is sometimes necessary, because when sex feels like an obligation, it can often trigger difficulties from the abuse. She …read more »

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Filed Under: Family and Lifecycle, Sexuality Tagged With: Couples, healing, intimacy, partnership, pleasure, relationships, sex, sex therapy, Sexual Abuse, sexual violence, survivors, Trauma, triggers

Sexual Medicine for Men with Irwin Goldstein

December 16, 2009 by ssradmin

An interview with Dr. Irwin Goldstein about sexual health including premature ejaculation, bicycle injuries, and erectile dysfunction.

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Filed Under: Sexuality Tagged With: bicycle riding, ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, intimacy, male, masculinity, penis, physical health, pleasure, premature ejaculation, sex, sexual health, testicles

Sexual Fantasy with Michael Bader

December 2, 2009 by ssradmin

An interview with Michael Bader, Ph.D about sexual fantasies. Michael suggests that our sexual fantasies work by offering a solution to any guilt and fear that may undermine our relationship to sexuality. He proposes that many—especially men—may use fantasy to cope with concern about hurting their partner, because of caring so much about the partner’s …read more »

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Filed Under: Sexuality Tagged With: fantasy, fear, Guilt, intimacy, pleasure, relationships, sex, sex positive, subconscious

Sex After Prostate Surgery with Susan Ramsey

November 11, 2009 by ssradmin

Pelvic floor physical therapist Susan Ramsey talks about effective ways to prevent and treat erectile dysfunction and incontinence after prostatectomy. She talks about helpful exercises and ways to experience intimacy and pleasure regardless of erection.

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Filed Under: Sexuality Tagged With: erectile dysfunction, erection, incontinence, intimacy, male sexual health, orgasm, penis, pleasure, prostate, sex

Sexual Gridlock with Ron Feintech

November 4, 2009 by ssradmin

Sex therapist Ron Feintech talks about what he calls “sexual gridlock,” how intimacy can change in long-term relationships, and offers tips for fostering intimacy and risk-taking.

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Filed Under: Family and Lifecycle, Sexuality Tagged With: bed death, intimacy, long term relationships, pleasure, sex, sex therapy

Celibacy and Failure with Neil McKenty

October 21, 2009 by ssradmin

Neil McKenty talks with Safe Space about his experience with celibacy as a Jesuit Priest. Neil says that priests in training were not talked to or helped in coping with the demands of celibacy. Ultimately he was unable to remain celibate and left the priesthood. Neil has now been happily married for the past 27 …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Sexuality Tagged With: celibacy, Failure, Hidden Emotions, intimacy, jesuit, marriage, preists, Sexuality, spirituality

Divorce with Richard Schwartz

September 30, 2009 by ssradmin

Richard Schwartz is the developer of Internal Family Systems Therapy. He talks about his decision to get divorced and the process of healing that followed.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: breakups, Divorce, family dynamics, feelings of failure, healing, internal family systems, internal family systems therapy, intimacy, marriage

The Legacy of Divorce with Mona Barbera

September 16, 2009 by ssradmin

Couples therapist and workshop leader Dr. Mona Barbera talks to Safe Space Radio about the legacy of divorce. Mona talks about her feelings of confusion and failure after her divorce, her continuing desire to have children, and how she’s tried to learn and change her own patterns of behavior in new relationship.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: breakups, Couples, couples therapy, Divorce, ending relationships, family dynamics, feelings of failure, internal family systems, intimacy, long term relationships

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