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83 | Your Head Won’t Heal Your Heart, Your Body Will with | Marie-Pier

Dr. Brooks Demming Season 8 Episode 16

What if the path back to desire isn’t more effort, but more honesty felt in your body? We sit down with sexual and relational therapist Marie Pier to unpack how trauma shapes intimacy, why overwork quietly drains attraction, and how real resilience looks less like stoicism and more like presence. Instead of chasing another how-to list, we explore the skill of sensing; slowing down enough to notice where anxiety lives, where you’re saying yes on the outside and no on the inside, and how those tiny betrayals add up in love.

Marie shares a striking case study of a long marriage transformed not by better arguments but by one brave moment of helplessness. When the husband allowed himself to feel what he was avoiding, tears opened a new level of seeing and being seen. That shift; out of the head and into sensation; reframes strength, builds trust, and restores real connection. We also talk polarity: how many high performers harden into the mind, turning sex into performance and pushing softness out of reach. Bringing warmth, breath, and attunement back into the room rekindles attraction because safety precedes desire.

You’ll leave with practical steps to choose from embodied truth instead of fear: micro-pauses in busy evenings, tracking where your body tightens when you people-please, and learning what a full-body yes feels like. We connect the dots between leadership, parenting, and partnership, showing how presence; not perfection, changes the tone of a home and the temperature of a relationship. If you’re ready to replace overthinking with feeling and performance with resonance, this conversation offers a grounded, human path forward.

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