You're listening to The Confidence Podcast.

You're one stop-shot for motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action

on your dreams.

I'm your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach and founder

of the College of Confidence, and I teach women how to take their thoughts captive, how

to step out of their shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose

with confidence.

It's time to train your thoughts.

Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, your host of The Confidence Podcast, and you are listening

to episode number 450, too.

We're talking about confidence for physical intimacy, and I want you to know you are not

alone in feeling insecure about how you engage and interact with others physically.

I'm going to talk today about this platonically, romantically, familiarly, in family context,

and in all areas of your life, because there's no reason to see stuck in the avoidance

of our minimization of physical intimacy.

As human beings, we are hardwired for connection, and if 2020 proved anything, it's that we

do need physical touch, we need interaction, and look, you may be a touchy-feely person,

or you may be someone who identifies as not a hugger.

Look, wherever you follow in that spectrum, you still need physical intimacy.

We are wired babies who are not held at birth, do not do well socially and emotionally.

There's that terrible, I don't know the source of it, I've heard of it in a couple of times,

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