Nurtured Intimacy

Nurtured Intimacy Therapist, Sexologist and Educator

This could be:Communicating a boundaryStaying regulatedAsking for what you wantSaying no without apologising
29/12/2025

This could be:

Communicating a boundary

Staying regulated

Asking for what you want

Saying no without apologising

Two truths can exist:You’re putting in effortYou’re still overwhelmedBoth deserve compassion.
26/12/2025

Two truths can exist:

You’re putting in effort

You’re still overwhelmed
Both deserve compassion.

Trauma can shape how someone experiences touch, desire, safety, and closeness.And still — they are allowed to want pleas...
24/12/2025

Trauma can shape how someone experiences touch, desire, safety, and closeness.
And still — they are allowed to want pleasure.
They are allowed to want slowness.
They are allowed to want nothing at all.

People are not their wounds.

Someone can be:Surviving and playfulHealing and sensualTender and powerfulCareful and desiringHolding space means not re...
23/12/2025

Someone can be:
Surviving and playful
Healing and sensual
Tender and powerful
Careful and desiring

Holding space means not reducing someone to what hurt them.
It means seeing who they are beneath the coping.

Try this instead of advice:• “That makes sense.”• “I’m really glad you told me.”• “Do you want support, or just space to...
22/12/2025

Try this instead of advice:
• “That makes sense.”
• “I’m really glad you told me.”
• “Do you want support, or just space to share?”

Being held emotionally is often more healing than being helped.

Sometimes the most regulating thing you can offer another human is:• Your steady presence• Your listening• Your “I’m her...
20/12/2025

Sometimes the most regulating thing you can offer another human is:
• Your steady presence
• Your listening
• Your “I’m here”

Silence, when it’s kind, is not empty.
It’s full of safety.

There is no “right” way for your body to respond to loss.
18/12/2025

There is no “right” way for your body to respond to loss.

Holding space sounds like:• “I miss you, and I’m not going anywhere.”• “We don’t have to rush this.”• “Your body is allo...
17/12/2025

Holding space sounds like:
• “I miss you, and I’m not going anywhere.”
• “We don’t have to rush this.”
• “Your body is allowed to grieve too.”

Pressure doesn’t heal grief.
Safety does.

Miscarriage.Infertility.Medical changes.Loss of desire.Loss of who you used to be together.Holding space in grief doesn’...
14/12/2025

Miscarriage.
Infertility.
Medical changes.
Loss of desire.
Loss of who you used to be together.

Holding space in grief doesn’t mean forcing closeness.
It means allowing distance without making it mean disconnection.
It means letting intimacy look different for a while — or a long while.

You’re not broken for struggling to desire while you’re hurting.
You’re human.

Gentle reminder: Grief and love can exist in the same body.
So can grief and pleasure — eventually, in its own time.

You don’t have to know everything about your body or theirs.You just need to stay curious.
11/12/2025

You don’t have to know everything about your body or theirs.
You just need to stay curious.

You don’t need to perform confidence to be worthy of care, pleasure, or love.
10/12/2025

You don’t need to perform confidence to be worthy of care, pleasure, or love.

It’s about being informed.Being connected.Being in your own body, not someone else’s expectations.
09/12/2025

It’s about being informed.
Being connected.
Being in your own body, not someone else’s expectations.

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