Swoon: Love Lessons with Julie and Gina

Do you and your partner fight over the roles and responsibilities in your relationship? Does the division of labor feel equitable? Are you clear about your expectations? In today's podcast Julie and Gina talk about one of the most common sources of conflict in relationships – Division of Labor! They'll share tips for exploring your default roles and ways you can create a system that works better for your relationship and lives! Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST

Do you feel disconnected from your partner? Does it feel like it takes a lot energy to initiate sex (or show up for sex)? In today's podcast Julie and Gina talk about tending the erotic fire in your relationship. Learn how to keep the romance, intimacy and passion alive in your relationship. Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST

Do you have a hard time staying present during sex? Are you distracted? Worried about performance? Or focusing on your to do list? In today's podcast Gina and Julie share tools and practices to help you stay present and experience more pleasure in and out of the bedroom. Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST

Being the high desire partner can seem like a simple problem form the outside, but people living this experience will tell you it's not that easy. You want to connect, share passion, and get your needs met, but you need to be careful to do it in ways that don't add pressure to what can often be a tense situation. Let Gina and Julie help you understand how to handle high desire in mismatched desire relationships, in loving consensual ways. Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST

In this bonus episode Julie and Gina answer listeners questions. Q1: How did Julie and Gina become so comfortable talking about sex? Q2: How can I still have sex if I am experiencing pain in my vagina during intercourse? Q3: How should I handle crushes that I get outside of my relationship? Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST

Most long-term couples experience something called desire fatigue (the slow decline of sexual connection and/or activity the longer you're together) but most couples don't want to accept low desire as an inevitability. In today's podcast Gina and Julie explore the common contributors to desire fatigue in relationships and the understanding you need to overcome this very common issue. Take our intimacy course: www.swoonwithus.com/courses JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP: www.swoonwithus.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a sexuality educator, author and communication consultant specializing in healthy boundaries, passionate relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. Her most recent work has focused on helping entrepreneur couples and co-founders create healthy relationships at work. She supports non-traditional couples all over the world as a retreat leader and award-winning certified relationship coach. Connect with Gina: www.heygina.com or on Instagram at @heyginasena Julie Jeske, LPC is a sex and relationship counselor. She has a private practice where she helps clients increase intimacy, ignite passion, and deepen their connection to themselves and others. Julie especially loves to help women discover who they are sexually. Through counseling, online classes, or in-person retreats; her clients learn how to talk about their sexual and relationship desires, and explore ways to make them a reality. Connect with Julie: ww.juliejeske.com or on Instagram at @julie_jeske ACTION STEPS Call us! Leave a question on our voicemail if there's something specific you want to know - and we'll have you on a future show: patreon.com/swoonwithus Looking for intimacy coaching? Connect with Gina at heygina.com Looking for a therapist in Oregon? Connect with Julie at juliejeske.com BUY THE BOOK Love More Fight Less: A Relationship Workbook, Gina Senarighi https://amzn.to/3oeKTST

Most people struggle to talk about sex without conflict in relationships. In this episode of Swoon we are going to tackle how to ask for what you want. We'll cover when, where and how to talk about sex in a way that works best for connection. We'll go over how to flip the story you're telling about sex in your relationship from "this is hard" to "we still got it".

A lot has been said about low desire partners in relationships. It's one of the most challenging and misunderstood dynamics in intimate partnership. So knowing how to sort the junk form quality information is critical. Let Gina and Julie help you understand why low desire occurs even in healthy loving relationships, and what you can do to address it.

Join Julie Jeske and Gina Senarighi, two Portland, Oregon-based sexperts in a conversation about the most common sexual issue couples face: mismatched sexual desire. Learn why couples face different levels of desire and take home a tool to help you connect, even when it's not easy.