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Sex and Intimacy (part 2)

Gay Men Going Deeper

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How to Increase Your Capacity for Intimacy

Michael: We need to first clear out what is getting in the way from us having a capacity to connect. If you look at intimacy it's connection, right? So we then therefore build all these little mechanisms around us that tell us it's okay to disconnect whether you know that denial blaming anger and we get really good at telling the story of I don't need connection. The lone wolf syndrome we've done a whole episode on that. And we need to untell these stories with a great practitioner or a friend or a loved one or whoever whoever you can feel safe with to share your stories of disconnection with. That's going to make it safer for you to start to move towards

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