Reignite your intimate life with tips from pioneering desire expert Ita O'Brien
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 52 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 | time for a commercial message from Bookmark reading charity. So Trish, you know we often get asked |
| 0:05.6 | by our wonderful postcards from Midlife Facebook community about how we can give back to societies |
| 0:10.8 | we age, especially now as many of our women got a little bit more time on their hands, hello empty |
| 0:15.8 | nest. Well, there is brilliant charity which helps children learn to read and is looking for volunteers. |
| 0:21.6 | Oh, tell me more because you are right about many of us wanted to give back and studies show |
| 0:26.2 | that volunteering is good for us later in life. It boosts our mood, improves brain health and |
| 0:31.2 | reduces loneliness as well as adding those glimmers of joy into daily life. Indeed. |
| 0:36.4 | And right now, bookmark reading charity is looking for online reading volunteers to provide one-to-one |
| 0:42.1 | support to children aged 5 to 11 years to help them feel more confident in their reading. Today one in |
| 0:48.4 | four children in England leave primary school unable to read well which limits |
| 0:53.1 | their chances in education and life. But you could help change that by becoming a |
| 0:57.8 | bookmark reading volunteer. All you have to do is spend 30 minutes twice a week |
| 1:02.6 | reading stories and playing games with a child. You can choose a time to suit you, you don't need teaching experience and |
| 1:09.4 | you get support every step of the way from the charity experts. |
| 1:12.9 | Oh, that sounds like such a rewarding and heartwarming thing to do. So how do we sign up? |
| 1:17.9 | To find out more about becoming a reading volunteer, visit bookmarkreading.org forward slash reimagine that's bookmarkreading.org forward slash reimagine |
| 1:29.2 | just an hour a week and change a child's story and your own too. |
| 1:37.6 | Had another funny dream. |
| 1:40.5 | He didn't come into my dream unloading office and tell me what's occurred this time. |
| 1:46.3 | Well, I feel like I'm slightly oversharing here, but so I'm ready for it. No one's listening. |
| 1:52.4 | Oh God. Right. I had a dream. No celebrities. No John Hamm this time. My dream this time. |
| 1:58.5 | Maybe it's connected. I don't know. Dream this time was that my husband, lovely Neil, |
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