What types of life transitions tend to affect intimacy the most? Is it like fertility struggles, parenthood, career changes? Like what do you feel like affects them the most?

All of them.

All of them? I think, you know, with even starting with having children, right? I think a lot of people don't necessarily plan for what is going to happen in their relationship, right? So it's like, you know, you have three kids back to back and not realizing that, like, First year of having a child is the hardest year on your relationship.

And also what help you have in place is really important to kind of brace for what kind of impact it is going to have on your relationship.

These things aren't necessarily talked about.

It's just like, I want a big family.

OK, but what does that come with? Right.

And so why is parenthood such a significant challenge for intimacy?

First, tell everyone who you are, how you got into this work, because it's like, it's always an interesting story to get into what we do.

Absolutely.

Yeah, so I'm Jessica.

I'm a psychotherapist and executive coach in Manhattan.

And I got, well, I started with an undergrad in psychology.

I was definitely... you know, just kind of growing up, seeing how people were and, you know, like the people we grew up with, even people's parents, I was kind of more focused and very observant on how people were acting, kind of a lot of people watching going on.

And when I took actually just my first elective, I didn't start psychology right away, but I took an elective in psychology as a major.

like releasing from the nervous system looks like in someone's life?