Desire is deeply personal. It doesn’t move in straight lines or follow predictable rules, especially for neurodivergent and highly sensitive women. You may feel desire intensely one day and not at all the next. You may long for connection but feel overwhelmed by the sensations that come with it. You may sense there is more inside you, yet struggle to access it, resulting in a cycle of pressure, guilt, and resentment. None of this means you’re doing intimacy “wrong.” These pat

I’m going to share something personal: sex is hard for me.  While I love pleasure, orgasm, intimacy with my loving partner of eight years,

Perhaps a better word for intimacy is “closeness” including intellectual, spiritual, emotional, physical, and, yes, sexual closeness.

From my decades of unraveling my trauma and working with others, I've come to a few realizations: Trauma, including sexual, is inherited...