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Looking at our culture, we can see that society is becoming more disconnected. Even though we have technology that connects more people than ever before, there’s still distance. Lack of intimacy is one of the top three reasons why relationships struggle, and often times end. Bringing Intimacy Back, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, is dedicated to inspire, enlighten, and encourage intimate connections. Host Dr. April Brown and co-host Kanya Ford provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss ways to enhance intimacy in one’s relationships; including with oneself, partners, families, friends, and Spirit. Research shows that as we increase the quality of our intimate connections, a decrease of conflicts, anxiety, and depression follows. Take the first steps to strengthen your intimate connections with Bringing Intimacy Back. Bringing Intimacy Back airs LIVE every Thursday at 3:30pm EST. Viewer comments and questions are shared during the exciting discussion!
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Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
This week on Bringing Intimacy Back, we interview a Women’s Transformation Coach, Petia Kolobova. Discover how to attract clients who are on the same soul path as you. You will learn how to tap into past wounds and limiting beliefs so that you can move forward in a more authentic way.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
This week on Bringing Intimacy Back, hear how creativity can help improve your intimate relationship on the Bringing Intimacy Back podcast show. This episode features Nova Lorraine, an award-winning fashion designer and author.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Jen Fecher is the Director of Educational Services and Lead Educator for Reclaiming Intimacy in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States. Jen talks about the everyday stressors that can cause sexual dysfunctions in both men and women and how to make the adjustment to regain your intimacy, after surgery, cancer or aging complications. She has worked in the education field for over fifteen years, with most of that time focusing on adult sexual education & intimacy issues and holds a bachelor’s degree in education, a bachelor’s in business, along with numerous certifications from the Real Life Institute with Dr. Terry Real on relationships, intimacy, and sexuality. Real truth on relationships, intimacy, and sexuality.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
We welcome returning Guest Ashley Bernardi, the author of 'Authentic Power'. In 'Authentic Power: Give Yourself Permission to Feel', accomplished entrepreneur, journalist, publicist, and award-winning podcaster Ashley Bernardi continues the brave work of these great thought leaders by teaching you that your darkest hours are disguised opportunities to uncover and process, feel, heal, and grow. Bernardi’s personal journey began when she witnessed her father’s sudden death at age eleven. Years later, a mysterious illness began a personal quest toward healing and taught her that trauma and adversity can be sources of strength and self-discovery. Through daily affirmations and writing prompts, you will discover Ashley Bernardi’s F.E.E.L. Framework: Focus, Enter, Experience, Learn.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Today we talk to Serena Arora and Kevin McQuillan about their retreats for individuals and couples and why they feel the retreats are a great way to reconnect with who you are, along with the types of retreats they host and how retreats work to help build more intimate relationships with self, environment and others.
For more information on retreats please visit www.vacationcounseling.com. Serena and Kevin’s Retreats can be found at www.peaceretreatcostarica.com and SwasthaYogaInternational.com.
This week on Bringing Intimacy Back, host Dr. April and co-host Coach Kay discuss sexual intimacy at all stages of life including dating, sex in marriage, how sex therapy works and how sex in our relationships changes as we age.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
We want to welcome new Co-Host Show Coach Kay to the Podcast. Coach Kay and I met on Clubhouse and I am very excited to have her as a Co-Host starting today. Coach Kay is a Life Coach and Certified Clinical Sexologist (life, love, and intimacy coach), she is a a wife and mother of 5 amazing children! She provides coaching for issues such as low self-esteem, identity loss (due to life changes), self-sabotage, career growth, family growth and more! She specializes in love, intimacy, relationship, self-esteem, and sexual and personal freedom. She is the creator of the "Own Your Ish Sis!" boot camp which is a 5-week program that helps individuals mentally and physically. She is also the host of the Fools in Love Couples Retreat. Her mission with her clients is to coach them through Life, Love & Intimacy. You can find Coach Kay at loveandintimacy101.com.
Today we're interviewing speaker, writer and coach Jerry Nehr. Jerry holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Wayne State University and a Master’s Degree in Educational Counseling and Addiction Studies from the University of Detroit Mercy and has operated a training and consulting firm for over 20 years, with a focus on assisting organizations with their employee development goals and strategies. The topic is Eye Contact, Voices and Hugs. In this world of the pandemic these are topics we all have had too little of perhaps. We will find out what Jerry thinks about all of this and more as we discuss ways to connect and Jerry answers the Question we always ask here at Bringing Intimacy Back. What does Intimacy mean to him? Also we will look at how mindfulness plays into connections in our personal lives and professional lives, along with answering some questions about Social Media’s impact on our self image, How can we best show up as our best selves and 5 tips on how we can best connect now that many of us are using virtual spaces to work from. We also get a look into what impact the virtual world has done to both highlight and diminish our connections with one another. Jerry also gives us a few Mindfulness exercises we can do for 5 to 7 minutes to prepare ourselves for more mindful connections. And Jerry discusses her New Book Erasing The Margins (Available on Amazon). You can connect with Jerry Nehr at jerrynehr.com.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Dr April and Dr. Kelly welcomes Guest Suzanne Falter to the show to discuss Self Care for Busy women, just in time for the busy holidays! Dr Kelly is spending her last day with Bringing Intimacy Back in this episode and excited to learn new ways to create space for self, along with our 4th book is out now “It’s all about Sex,” is now available on Amazon!
Suzanne Falter is an author and podcaster who helps busy women find happiness through self-care. After losing her 22 year old daughter, Teal, in 2012, Suzanne’s work has evolved to help busy women learn more about self-care, a lesson she learned in her grief. As a podcaster, Suzanne hosts the podcast Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women Which is in the top 2% of all podcasts. It was inspired her book, The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care. Suzanne is host of the Self-Care Group for Extremely Busy Women on Facebook, a thriving group of 56,000 women committed to self-care. A writer and author for more than 40 years, Suzanne has a catalog of powerful fiction and self-help titles including Surrendering to Joy and How Much Joy Can You Stand? Over the last fifteen years, Suzanne’s work has been featured in More, O Magazine, The New York Times, Coast to Coast AM, Tiny Buddha, Elephant Journal, Woman’s Day and The Wall Street Journal! Suzanne discusses her journey of loss and finding what’s really important now, as she shares some secrets and tips to self love, self care and self empowerment as she answers questions about what do we as women feel guilty about? How are we good enough? Guilt Induced Action we often do not even know we are taking during the Holidays!! You can find Suzanne Falter at Suzanne Falter Social Media/Websites https://suzannefalter.com/Podcast-SELF-CARE FOR EXTREMELY BUSY WOMEN PODCAST Facebook–Group-The Self-Care Group for Extremely Busy Women Book–The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care.
We also speak to a second guest Dr Debi Silber about her secrets on how you restore Trust after a betrayal. Dr Debbie is the owner of The Post Betrayal Transformational Institute ( PBT) www.ThePBTInstitute.com. She is a holistic psychologist, Speaker and is a recognized health, mindset, empowerment and personal development expert. She is the author of the Amazon #1 Bestselling book: The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis, The Unshakable Woman-The Workbook (the companion guide to the book), 2 books recommended by Brian Tracy, Marshall Goldsmith and Jack Canfield, and is the author of the forthcoming book: Trust Again (out in September, 2020). Debi's contributed to FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz show, TEDx (twice), The Huffington Post, Shape, Self, Health, Working Mother, Forbes, Psychology Today, WebMD, Ladies Home Journal, MSN, Woman's World and Glamour to name a few. After researching and conducting a PhD study on how we experience betrayal from a family member or partner, Debi has discovered a predictable and proven process taking people from betrayal to breakthrough.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Infidelity, cheating, adultery is never easy to discuss. This episode provides a platform to talk about infidelity as a construct as well as its causes and impact. Furthermore, the audience will learn how the trauma of infidelity can be harnessed as a positive force of healing.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Dr. April and Coach Kay discuss exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, is the owner of Love & Intimacy 101, a life, love, and intimacy coaching practice based out of Richmond, VA. She is a life coach and certified sexologist.
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Dr. April and Dr. Kelly describe how making love is at a higher level of intimacy than sex. They discuss the importance of communication and emotional intimacy and its impact on making love. They give tips and examples on how to talk with you partner about your intimate needs and ways to spice up and please your partner.
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live!
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
The Bringing Intimacy Back Podcast is committed to inspire, enlighten and encourage intimate connections. We provide an engaging atmosphere to discuss and demonstrate ways to enhance intimacy in one's personal relationships with significant others, families, friends, spirit and self.
Listen LIVE and comment on exciting topics including emotional and physical health, dating, spirituality, romance, communication and, of course, intimacy.
This is always the place Where Intimacy is Real and you will laugh, learn and love alongside our hosts every Thursday at 3:30pm EST Live! More info at www.BringingIntimacyBack.com
Dr. April Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Christian Counselor in Florida, Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey. In addition, she is Certified Relationship and Sex Therapist, Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor. holds a Masters and a Specialist degree in Counseling and Human Systems and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology.