Bringing Intimacy Back

Today we talk to Serena Arora and Kevin McQuillan about their retreats for individuals and couples and why they feel the retreats are a great way to reconnect with who you are, along with the types of retreats they host and how retreats work to help build more intimate relationships with self, environment and others.

For more information on retreats please visit www.vacationcounseling.com. Serena and Kevin’s Retreats can be found at www.peaceretreatcostarica.com and SwasthaYogaInternational.com.

This week on Bringing Intimacy Back, host Dr. April and co-host Coach Kay discuss sexual intimacy at all stages of life including dating, sex in marriage, how sex therapy works and how sex in our relationships changes as we age.

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.

We want to welcome new Co-Host Show Coach Kay to the Podcast. Coach Kay and I met on Clubhouse and I am very excited to have her as a Co-Host starting today. Coach Kay is a Life Coach and Certified Clinical Sexologist (life, love, and intimacy coach), she is a a wife and mother of 5 amazing children! She provides coaching for issues such as low self-esteem, identity loss (due to life changes), self-sabotage, career growth, family growth and more! She specializes in love, intimacy, relationship, self-esteem, and sexual and personal freedom. She is the creator of the "Own Your Ish Sis!" boot camp which is a 5-week program that helps individuals mentally and physically. She is also the host of the Fools in Love Couples Retreat. Her mission with her clients is to coach them through Life, Love & Intimacy. You can find Coach Kay at loveandintimacy101.com.

Today we're interviewing speaker, writer and coach Jerry Nehr. Jerry holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Wayne State University and a Master’s Degree in Educational Counseling and Addiction Studies from the University of Detroit Mercy and has operated a training and consulting firm for over 20 years, with a focus on assisting organizations with their employee development goals and strategies. The topic is Eye Contact, Voices and Hugs. In this world of the pandemic these are topics we all have had too little of perhaps. We will find out what Jerry thinks about all of this and more as we discuss ways to connect and Jerry answers the Question we always ask here at Bringing Intimacy Back. What does Intimacy mean to him? Also we will look at how mindfulness plays into connections in our personal lives and professional lives, along with answering some questions about Social Media’s impact on our self image, How can we best show up as our best selves and 5 tips on how we can best connect now that many of us are using virtual spaces to work from. We also get a look into what impact the virtual world has done to both highlight and diminish our connections with one another. Jerry also gives us a few Mindfulness exercises we can do for 5 to 7 minutes to prepare ourselves for more mindful connections. And Jerry discusses her New Book Erasing The Margins (Available on Amazon). You can connect with Jerry Nehr at jerrynehr.com.

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.

Dr April and Dr. Kelly welcomes Guest Suzanne Falter to the show to discuss Self Care for Busy women, just in time for the busy holidays! Dr Kelly is spending her last day with Bringing Intimacy Back in this episode and excited to learn new ways to create space for self, along with our 4th book is out now “It’s all about Sex,” is now available on Amazon!

Suzanne Falter is an author and podcaster who helps busy women find happiness through self-care. After losing her 22 year old daughter, Teal, in 2012, Suzanne’s work has evolved to help busy women learn more about self-care, a lesson she learned in her grief. As a podcaster, Suzanne hosts the podcast Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women Which is in the top 2% of all podcasts. It was inspired her book, The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care. Suzanne is host of the Self-Care Group for Extremely Busy Women on Facebook, a thriving group of 56,000 women committed to self-care. A writer and author for more than 40 years, Suzanne has a catalog of powerful fiction and self-help titles including Surrendering to Joy and How Much Joy Can You Stand? Over the last fifteen years, Suzanne’s work has been featured in More, O Magazine, The New York Times, Coast to Coast AM, Tiny Buddha, Elephant Journal, Woman’s Day and The Wall Street Journal! Suzanne discusses her journey of loss and finding what’s really important now, as she shares some secrets and tips to self love, self care and self empowerment as she answers questions about what do we as women feel guilty about? How are we good enough? Guilt Induced Action we often do not even know we are taking during the Holidays!! You can find Suzanne Falter at Suzanne Falter Social Media/Websites https://suzannefalter.com/Podcast-SELF-CARE FOR EXTREMELY BUSY WOMEN PODCAST Facebook–Group-The Self-Care Group for Extremely Busy Women Book–The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care.

We also speak to a second guest Dr Debi Silber about her secrets on how you restore Trust after a betrayal. Dr Debbie is the owner of The Post Betrayal Transformational Institute ( PBT) www.ThePBTInstitute.com. She is a holistic psychologist, Speaker and is a recognized health, mindset, empowerment and personal development expert. She is the author of the Amazon #1 Bestselling book: The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis, The Unshakable Woman-The Workbook (the companion guide to the book), 2 books recommended by Brian Tracy, Marshall Goldsmith and Jack Canfield, and is the author of the forthcoming book: Trust Again (out in September, 2020).   Debi's contributed to FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz show, TEDx (twice), The Huffington Post, Shape, Self, Health, Working Mother, Forbes, Psychology Today, WebMD, Ladies Home Journal, MSN, Woman's World and Glamour to name a few. After researching and conducting a PhD study on how we experience betrayal from a family member or partner, Debi has discovered a predictable and proven process taking people from betrayal to breakthrough.

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degre

Infidelity, cheating, adultery is never easy to discuss. This episode provides a platform to talk about infidelity as a construct as well as its causes and impact. Furthermore, the audience will learn how the trauma of infidelity can be harnessed as a positive force of healing.

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.

Dr. April and Dr. Kelly describe how making love is at a higher level of intimacy than sex. They discuss the importance of communication and emotional intimacy and its impact on making love. They give tips and examples on how to talk with you partner about your intimate needs and ways to spice up and please your partner.

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

Maureen Hancock is an internationally renowned Spirit Medium, intuitive, teacher, lecturer, Holistic Healer, and author of the bestselling book, “The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer.” She has spent decades demystifying the overwhelming subject matter of death, and helping individuals to flex their intuitive muscle, and tap into messages from spirit. A teacher of sorts, Maureen’s work has brought comfort, hope and healing to the masses. Today, she’s going to be talking to us about how grief impacts relationships, and how to find joy through the grief journey - Understanding spirit communication, energy, signs, and dreams.

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live! More info at www.BringingIntimacyBack.com

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

As co-hosts of the top marriage podcast in Apple Podcasts, the ONE Extraordinary Marriage Show, Tony and Alisa DiLorenzo speak to a worldwide audience about sex, love & commitment, challenging every listener to make their relationship a priority. Their 6 Pillars of Intimacy has transformed countless marriages, and its ideas are simple, practical, and powerful. You’ll be inspired to look at your marriage through a new lens and be encouraged by its commonsense approach. For more information: oneextraordinarymarriage.com 6pillarsofintimacy.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/oneextraordinarymarriage/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live! More info at www.BringingIntimacyBack.com

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

Power couple, Dr. Ray & Jean Kadkhodaian have been married since Valentine's Day in 1998, and CoFounded a successful counseling center in the Chicagoland area. After working with thousands of couples, they created and perfected a unique approach to coach couples to have amazing relationships, called Couples Synergy. Dr. Ray & Jean have Master's degrees and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. They are CoHosts of their own podcast called, Couples Synergy: Real Couples, Real Stories, and co-authored a book entitled, "Good Boundaries-Great Relationships". For more information: https://couplessynergy.com, https://www.facebook.com/couplessynergy, https://www.instagram.com/couplessynergy, https://twitter.com/DrRayandJean, https://www.linkedin.com/company/couples-synergy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live! More info at www.BringingIntimacyBack.com

Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.

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The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.

Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.

This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live! More info at www.BringingIntimacyBack.com

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Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.