Episode 37: To Intimacy and Desire as a Busy Mom

As women step into motherhood, it is common to find that the desire for intimacy drops. Our guest this week is Leah Peleg, whose work involves relationship and intimacy coaching. Leah also focuses on emotional therapy that empowers women within their ways of intimacy. "I’m on a mission to save marriages working with women accessing their purest feminine potential,” she says.

*This episode contains mature subjects and language. Please be aware of this as you listen through the episode, especially if you have children around.

About Leah:
Leah is a Certified Relationship & Intimacy Coach, Taharas Hamispcha & kallah Teacher, and a holistic therapist. A country girl living in the heart of holy city Jerusalem with an amazing Husband and two kiddies.
Being diagnosed with endromethis, she decided she had to discover what it really meant to be and feel like to be a woman, to wear her crown, to own her sensuality, be confident, and love wholeheartedly. Most of all, how to actually maintain a successful connecting relationship.

Show Notes:
6:30 Marriage
"Marriage doesn't have to be what we think it's gonna have to be like struggles and frustration, arguments and resentment [...] it can be that dream marriage." 

7:52 Leah's marriage transformation and journey
"... and then I learned all these tools, I learned what I'm teaching now [...] and I changed..." 

10:26 Can you do that transformation on your own?

11:41 Most common challenges in regards to intimacy?
"... when there's a lack of desire would be because it can be painful or that you're thinking it's solely about them, or that it could be not pleasurable [...] So a lot of it, and the mindset of why those things can happen is because of stress, anxiety being overwhelmed and busy moms..." 

13:40 What is desire and how to get it back?
 "Why is it good for women to have desire, because for so long we put ourselves on the back burner especially when we go into motherhood we go like okay, now my focus is on my kids..." 

16:33 Discovering and exploring sexual desire
"...like connect to yourself, and come into your body, right, that is a key thing to in the moment before going into it." 

19:51 Expressing vulnerability after not being corresponded 

22:01 Putting your worries in the side for a moment
"When you talk about physical intimacy [...] if you are not present then you'll not want to do it again." 

24:14 Tips for women to get "In the mood."
"Generally, what happens when you start getting aroused the hormones create more and more desire." 

25:55 Connecting to yourself
"So many women are disconnected from that area. And it’s about really creating great beautiful connection. No shame… is about empowerment and all creativity sits there, and you know it's a birthplace. So, it's about really connecting to that aspect."

28:34 Happiness, Intimacy, Resentment and Gratitude 

Connect with Leah:
FB: facebook.com/LeahPelegIntimacy101
Instagram: instagram.com/thejoyofintimacy/

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Show Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Leah Peleg
Editor: Orlando Diaz