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Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Health & Fitness, Unknown, 579985, Culture, Mental Health, Perimenopause, Women, Relationships, Midlife Women, Fitness, Midlife, Lifestyle, Health, Menopause, Nutrition, Parenting, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Kids & Family

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Lorraine & Trish are joined by the world’s first film & TV intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien, whose movement choreography on shows such as Normal People, Sex Education, It’s a Sin & I May Destroy You have redefined on-screen sex scenes, while setting clear boundaries to keep the actors within their comfort zone. She shares helpful tools and advice from her new book on how we can feel more sensuous in our own bodies and experience desire, connection and intimacy through our midlife years and beyond. Plus: Trish has another crazy dream & Lorraine asks what if a friend refuses to take your photo off their social media

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0:00.0	Had another funny dream.
0:07.6	Come into my dream unloading office and tell me what's occurred this time.
0:13.2	Well, I feel like I'm slightly oversharing here.
0:16.0	But I'm ready for it.
0:18.3	No one's listening.
0:19.5	Oh, God.
0:20.4	Right.
0:27.0	I had a dream. No celebrities. No John Hamm this time. My dream this time, maybe it's connected. I don't know.
0:36.3	Dream this time was that my husband, lovely Neil, he of the many years married, was leaving me for an Australian opair, a non-existent Australian opair.
0:37.9	Interesting, because your children have been in their 20s.
0:40.7	Well, exactly.
0:41.9	And in this dream, I was going to say in this film, in this dream,
0:45.0	I was really kind of like, oh, don't be silly, you know, all of that.
0:48.2	And he was adamant that he was going.
0:50.8	And I was so shocked and I was so upset about it. It was very strange. I wonder what
0:56.7	that means. It's a betrayal of some sort. Maybe I'm taking him for granted. Maybe. I did talk to him
1:05.6	about the dream and he said he'd rather run off with Bridie the Labrador than a young Australian
1:10.6	pair. So I think we're all right on that front. My husband's and he said he'd rather run off with Bridie the Labrador than a young Australian O'Pair.
1:11.6	So I think we're all right on that front.
1:14.2	My husband set the voice for our Google, Alexa, whatever the thing is.
1:18.9	It doesn't listen to me anyway.
1:20.7	And it's an Australian woman's voice.
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