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Podcast: Doing It Together: Making Sense of Low Libido, Sex, and Intimacy in Marriage.
Episode: How to Stop People Pleasing & Speak Up For Yourself in the Bedroom - with Rowen | Ep. 76
Description: From the early stages of her life, Rowen discovered immense fulfillment in the roles of people-pleasing and caretaking for those around her. However, she later realized that the price she paid for these roles was steep—it left her clueless about her own wants and needs.
As this pattern extended into her intimate relationship with her husband, her inability to assert herself resulted in exclusive attention to his needs, leaving her feeling alone and broken in her lack of desire for intimacy. Despite enduring long-term pelvic pain, her pleas for help were dismissed by pr...