Episode 4: Intimacy After Trauma: What Actually Happens, and What Healing Can Look Like

Disclaimer/Warning: This episode discusses sexual trauma, sexual violence, and their effects on intimate relationships. Listener discretion is advised. If you are in crisis, please contact the RAINN hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE or text HOME to 741741, or call 988.This is the conversation most couples are having in silence. In Episode 4, Chad Stiles, PhD, LMFT talks honestly about what trauma does to physical intimacy — what's actually happening in the body, what the partner who hasn't experienced trauma is quietly feeling, and why shame tends to keep all of it hidden. Plus: why intimacy is bigger than sex, and what healing in this area actually looks like. Content note: sexual trauma discussed. Topics: intimacy after trauma, couples therapy, sexual trauma, healing.