Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to create more intimacy in your life.

Unfortunately, we live in a world of complete disconnection. So many people talk about

being surrounded by people and feeling alone, being in romantic partnerships, and still feeling

lonely. And I think for black women particularly, intimacy is a word that is awkward and

unfamiliar sometimes to us because historically it has not been a priority or a conversation.

We talk a lot about lust. We talk a lot about sex. We talk a lot about love. We talk a lot about friendship, we talk a lot about love, we talk a lot about

friendship, we talk a lot about partnership, but we rarely talk about intimacy. And there's a couple

of reasons for that. One, intimacy is often wrongly defined. When you just Google or look up

in the dictionary what intimacy is the first definition

is a close familiarity or friendship closeness the second definition is a cozy a cozy

atmosphere and then the third definition is an intimate act, meaning sex. But oftentimes,

the way we perceive intimacy is completely flipped. We think intimacy, sex. And we don't think

about an intimate atmosphere or something that's cozy and private. We don't think about

closeness or friendship and familiarity. And so today I want to talk about the other definitions

of intimacy, the less common known ones, and how to create more intimacy in your life,

why you need it, and what can be like the barriers to

having more of that in your life? First, there are many types of intimacy, which is interesting.

They really create four. There's like four different types. The four different types are

emotional, physical, mental, spiritual

intimacy. Physical intimacy is self-explanatory. It's sexual intercourse and sex. Emotional intimacy,

mental intimacy and spiritual intimacy are sometimes less talked about, less defined,

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