Trauma Doesn't Like to Be Touched

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A newly married couple comes to Esther for guidance on how to create a space of safety and physical intimacy while also giving voice to past trauma. One partner is working to overcome an aversion to physical touch due to abuse from his past while the other is learning to ask for more without triggering painful memories for his husband. From this starting point, Esther guides them through a discussion on memory, family relationships, and infidelity and helps them work out a blueprint for loving and satisfying touch. Want to learn more? Receive monthly insights, musings, and recommendations to improve your relational intelligence via email from Esther: https://www.estherperel.com/newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you are about to hear is a classic session of where should we begin with Esther
0:05.9	Perel. None of the voices in the series are ongoing patients of Esther Perel's.
0:11.0	In each episode is a one-time counseling session.
0:14.1	For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable
0:19.5	characteristics have been removed, but their voices and their stories are real.
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1:28.0	From the intake interview I learn a few things about this couple. They are in a kind of a talking versus touching. Battle?
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