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When Intimacy Feels Like Work: Reclaiming Pleasure in Transition | The Hormone Project
In this episode of The Hormone Project, host Ellen Lyden addresses the often unspoken grief and frustration women experience when intimacy feels like work during perimenopause and menopause. This guide is essential for women navigating hormonal transition who feel disconnected from their bodies, experiencing dryness, pain, or a complete loss of desire. We explore why spontaneous desire fades and how responsive desire becomes the new normal, offering practical strategies to reclaim pleasure without pressure.
We dive deep into the physiology of estrogen fluctuations, explaining how thinning…
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