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Welcome back to I-do Part 2. I'm one of your celebrity mentors here on the pod, Cheryl Burke.

Today I wanted to talk about sex and intimacy from a single woman's perspective.

You guys know I've been really open about my celibacy journey, so I want to talk about that.

And also about this new trend we're hearing a lot about sleeping in separate rooms.

So today we're joined by relationship coach Dr. Shanna Bromley to talk all about it.

How are you, Dr. Shanna?

How are you doing?

I'm good.

I've done a little bit of research on you and let's just get right into it and talk about navigating intimacy.

You know, I'm single. I have been very open with my journey and how I've been celibate.

And I've been choosing, obviously, to be celibate for the past, I would say, three years.

I'm divorced. And I'm just choosing to date myself and it's been lovely.

I'm curious. What brought you to that decision? Dating myself? Yeah, dating yourself,

being celibate. I admire the commitment. I'm always curious when people make that commitment

to themselves. It is something I've never done before. First of all, I was a serial dater.

Like I never was single, not even for a day.

It was always back-to-back relationships since I was 13 and I'm 40 now.

So it has been something that I am also very much in therapy and I have been for most of my life

and I will continue to be till the day I die.

But I, this is part of my work and being sober now for six years.

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