@carriecohencoaching: Survival mode does not always look like falling apart. Sometimes it looks like being capable, productive, responsible, and needed, but your body is tracking more than what you accomplish. It's tracking the state you're living in while you accomplish it. If your system has been bracing all day, intimacy at night will feel less like connection and more like one more thing that your body has to prepare for. That's a nervous system asking for safety before softness. Save this if you look fine on the outside but feel braced on the inside. #marriagetherapist #midlifewomen #nervoussystemregulation #intimacy #relationshipadviceforwomen