11. Why can Intimacy After Grief and Pregnancy Loss be so Hard? With Jaime Castillo LCSW

Healing Her with Ashley LeMieux

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

5.0 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Welcome back to the Healing Her podcast! Today, I am thrilled to be joined by Jaime Castillo, a licensed clinical social worker and the owner of Find Your Shine Therapy in Tempe, Arizona as well as author of What Happened to Make You Anxious. In this episode, Jaime and I will be talking about intimacy during grief as well as after a miscarriage. Jaime has both personal and professional experience with this topic so she’ll share with us a bit about what she’s been through. Besides this, we’ll also discuss feeling unsafe in your own body, how grief can make intimacy so difficult, and how miscarriage specifically can affect intimacy. Last but not least, Jaime will share some tangible tools with us that you can use to improve communication with your partner during such a difficult and presumably lonely time. I want you to know that there are so many women going through this and you certainly are not alone. Keep listening to hear more. Follow Jaime on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/findyourshinetherapy/ The Healing Her podcast will dish out practical tools, a touch of humor, and a whole lot of heart to help you uncover your way back to yourself and your peace. We will dive deep into the world of healing in a way that’s as relatable as chatting with your best friend. I’m Ashley LeMieux, a grief expert whose personal journey and masters degree in health and wellness has provided a whole new view on the world. Let’s break down the walls that are keeping us from finding the peace and transformation that we all deserve. Find more resources, Ashley's books, and submit your own question to be answered in an episode here: https://ashleylemieux.com/healing-her/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are Allie and Erica, certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coaches in Gut and
0:05.0	hormone health and the hosts of the podcast Courageous Wellness.
0:08.8	We are committed to de-stigmatizing conversations in the wellness space and celebrate the
0:13.6	experiences and lessons of our guests in pursuit of physical, emotional,
0:17.8	and spiritual wellness.
0:19.1	Listen to Cregious Wellness wherever you get your podcast
0:21.8	with fresh episodes every Wednesday.
0:27.8	Welcome to the Healing Her Podcast. This is your grief expert and friend Ashley Lemie. I'm not even going to lie right now. I have been so nervously excited for today's episode because we are talking about a topic that I have
0:56.3	never publicly talked about that I didn't really grow up talking about that I didn't have
1:00.6	the language for my heart is actually pounding right now
1:04.0	because I feel like I'm blushing about it already.
1:07.0	Because today we are talking about intimacy
1:10.0	and specifically intimacy during grief and how it changes things
1:14.9	intimacy after miscarriage or infertility and I just feel like this
1:21.4	conversation is so important. It's not something that's being had
1:26.3	publicly and I wanted to have someone here with me that we could talk about
1:32.2	things together on so that I wasn't trying to fumble over my words doing this alone but also to have someone here who has both personal and professional experience in a topic that is affecting so many
1:46.3	women and if you're listening to this today and you're feeling maybe a little shy
1:50.9	about it or you're feeling maybe shame even around it. I want you to know
1:56.4	that there are so many women in your shoes who are struggling with having sex or intimacy after loss and in their acute stages of grief.
2:08.2	It is so hard, we are not given the tools or the language or the steps forward on how to move forward through this with our partners.
2:18.2	And today we're going to talk about some stuff that might feel uncomfortable but that also I just know is going to be so
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