Normalizing Non-Monogamy - Interviews in Polyamory and Swinging

Ask Us Anything - Episode 5

Feb 23, 2024

Meshai and Fin answer listener questions, discussing relationship coaching, trauma therapy, and sex therapy. They share personal stories and advocate for embracing authenticity in diverse relationship practices. Topics include balancing personal desires in relationships, navigating relationship compatibility, and mono-poly relationships.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Balancing Personal Desires and Partner Agreements in Relationships

01:33 • 2min

Navigating Relationship Compatibility

04:01 • 8min

Navigating Speed and Communication in Group Rollerblading

12:05 • 3min

Navigating Mono-Poly Relationships

15:32 • 17min

Exploring Self-Differentiation and Boundary Work in Relationships

32:27 • 3min

Meshai and Fin team up together to answer amazing listener questions every fourth Friday of each month!

Today's questions are about advice for a couple who is new to non-monogamy and they're in a mono/poly dynamic AND how do we meet our partners desires without giving up who we are if the two are not fully aligned.

If YOU have a question, we'd love to hear it! Please, ask us anything by clicking here!

We are super excited to be partnering with Meshai for the Ask Us Anything episodes! She first appeared on the podcast on Episode 233 and we're honored to have her back!

Meshai is relationship coach with the team at Expansive Connection. She believes in the power of living as one’s authentic self, and the freedom that comes from changing perspectives. She loves putting the puzzle pieces of a couple's sexual energy together and aiding them in positive and explorative movement.

Her coaching work implements creative synergy, openness, self-expression, and the confrontation of challenges through self-determination. She helps individuals from diverse populations move forward with their goals while being fully aware that trauma can play on the whole person.

Meshai is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and is certified in both Trauma Therapy and Sex Therapy, and she is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

You likely know me (Fin) from over 300 episodes of Normalizing Non-Monogamy. Just in case you don't, I cohost the podcast with my partner Emma and we have been in an open relationship together for over 15 years. I am also working towards completing a sex and relationship coaching program through the Somatica Institute and will be finished in late spring 2024.

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