The Pleasure Principles with Dr Jordin Wiggins

The REAL Reason for Low Libido in Relationships (Pt 2)


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JOIN: HOLD YOUR CENTER: For Women Who Are Done Losing Themselves to Overfunctioning April 29th, 2026

The same traits that make you exceptional at your career make you exquisitely sensitive to context in sex and relationships. You do not have low desire. You are not inherently bad at relationships.

As a high achiever, you are hypervigilant, not high maintenance.

Libido is not a fixed biological drive. It is dynamic and context-dependent, shaped by your nervous system, relational context, and psychological safety. That feeling of being unfulfilled is your body signaling that something is out of balance, but treating the wrong problem keeps you stuck.

Sexual coercion is any pattern that overrides your ability to freely choose intimacy. It becomes a chronic brake, and pressing the gas while that brake is engaged leads to exhaustion.

Safety is a physiological requirement. When you are tracking moods, calculating the cost of your no, or having sex out of obligation, your pleasure centers are off. Your body is doing its job.

The question to ask is simple. The last three times you had sex, what was the actual reason that you did? Not the story. The felt reason.

HOLD YOUR CENTER: For Women Who Are Done Losing Themselves to Overfunctioning is a three-hour experience for women who lose themselves to over-functioning. You will identify your patterns, interrupt them in real time, and learn how to hold someone else's discomfort without collapsing or trying to manage it.

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Chapters 0:00 High achievers and the sensitivity to context 2:45 Why success doesn't translate to relationship ease 5:12 Defining the missing piece: Sexual coercion 8:30 The three levels of coercive beliefs 11:15 Accelerators vs. brakes in your nervous system 14:00 Identifying subtle coercion and obligation in sex 17:45 Why safety is a requirement for arousal 19:50 Overcoming the over-functioning pattern

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