Resources Categories: Intimacy and Connection

The easiest way to improve your relationship is to pay attention to your partner during life’s small, everyday moments. This video shows you how. As relationship researcher Logan Ury explains, you can choose to TURN TOWARDS your partner in these moments and accept their bids to connect, or TURN AWAY and ignore their bids. Every time you choose to tur ...

This book explores sexual rights of older people, highlighting stigma, prejudice, and invisibility, offering an evidence-based framework for policy reform and awareness. Routledge, 2018.

This book promotes hormone replacement therapy to reduce aging symptoms, improve sexual wellness, and reclaim youthful vitality, proving that great sex never gets old. Kimberly Cunningham, 2023.

Offers strategies for renewing sexual desire and intimacy in relationships. Routledge, 2020.

Offers a meditative approach to sex, promoting deep connection and sustainability into old age. Destiny Books, 2011.

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A holistic sexuality education curriculum for older adults. Comprehensive and progressive, this program addresses sexuality with sensitivity and respect for older adults’ wisdom and life experience. Unitarian Universalist Association, 2019.

How does enmeshment with a parent lead to sexual brokenness? And how can we heal from it? In this episode, Dr. Ken Adams will inspire you to break free from inappropriate loyalty so you can regain your passion and purpose in life. Dr. Ken Adams is a world-renowned therapist and expert on enmeshment, covert incest, shame, abuse, and sex addiction. Lea ...

This book empowers readers to embrace their sexuality at any age, fostering self-care, open conversations, and overcoming obstacles to enjoy a fulfilling sex life. Independently published, 2023.

Libido is your unique, personal, sexual psychic force. Because we are only semiconscious of this force, our conscious minds are not completely in control of the psychic force . Although we are always in control of how we act in response to libido, it is the less-than-conscious aspect that accounts for why it feels pushy, or external. People use the word ...

The renowned marriage expert explains that couples build trust in the small moments of a relationship, when we're emotionally attuned to our partner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWnadSi91s

A comprehensive and accessible guide covering symptoms, science, and personal experiences related to menopause. Yellow Kite, 2023.

Promotes a healthy, pleasure-based approach to sexuality for aging couples, challenging myths and emphasizing intimacy over performance and stereotypes. Routledge, 2022.

Explores reclaiming sexuality after loss, sharing stories and practical advice for navigating intimacy and self-care during grief. Mango, 2021.

Explores how race, gender, and class shaped sexual behavior over the past 200 years. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

This book examines consensual nonmonogamy among elders, addressing relationship dynamics, joys, challenges, and aging complexities like caregiving, health issues, and retirement. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

A fun and comprehensive sex guide with explicit, practical advice. There are illustrated chapters on almost every aspect of lovemaking, and its style - a kind of Rough Guide to Sex - will appeal and communicate to almost everybody. Goofy Foot Press, 2015.

Babies are Born Aware and Expecting a Relationship Between babies and their parents, social and emotional intelligence and connection will grow through physical contact (such as skin-to-skin contact) and though speech and language. The Trajectory for Good Development Involves Many Factors The capacity to love is a reciprocal trust building bet ...