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Sex and Intimacy (part 2)

Gay Men Going Deeper

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Toxic Shame and Attachment Trauma

Toxic shame and attachment trauma lead to the feeling like we need to hide ourselves. When we feel safe to show ourselves, that's when we can start to enter intimacy. Just add fear before how what we defined intimacy as. And then there's a couple other elements that are really kind of intertwined with intimacy avoidance. So we really need to be doing the work to getting clear about what our authentic desires are.

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