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This episode discusses how trauma affects desire and intimacy, featuring Accelerated Resolution Therapy as a breakthrough treatment.

Trauma shows up in unexpected ways. Chronic pelvic pain. Lost desire. The inability to tolerate a pelvic exam. These aren't always about what happened last week sometimes they're about what happened decades ago. In this episode, I talk with Brooke Bralove, a psychotherapist and sex therapist, about Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) a treatment that works differently than traditional talk therapy. Instead of processing trauma over years, ART can resolve it in 1-5 sessions using rapid eye movement and image replacement. Brooke walks through what actually happens in an ART session and shares patient stories showing how the therapy works on pelvic pain, OCD, and birth trauma. We also talk about desire in long-term relationships and what it takes to rebuild intimacy when spontaneous desire is no longer part of the picture. Highlights ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) can resolve trauma in 1-5 sessions using rapid eye movement and image replacement instead of years of talk therapy. Childhood trauma often shows up decades later as chronic pelvic pain, sexual pain, or the inability to tolerate intimacy. Birth trauma and medical trauma can be processed with ART without having to…

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