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Dr. Tammy Nelson on Empathy
Dr. Tammy Nelson, noted sex therapist and author of Getting the Sex You Want, joins us for the 11th episode of The Opening Door. In this excerpt, she explains how sexual empathy can enhance your relationship. Visit us at TheOpeningDoor.org to listen to the full interview.
Dr. Tammy Nelson on Hot Monogamy
Dr. Tammy Nelson, author of “The New Monogamy” tells us about hot monogamy as a practice.
Visit TheOpeningDoor.org Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview.
The Opening Door- Show 59: Tammy Nelson
Are you having problems with you sex life? Recovering from an affair? Then you don’t want to miss this enlightening and provocative conversation with one of America’s leading sex therapists and author, Tammy Nelson. She has helped thousands of people get the sex they want and rethink their sexual agreements for a more passionate and healthy intimate life.
Tammy Nelson, LPC is a licensed...
The Opening Door- Show 64: Tammy Nelson
Are you having problems with you sex life? Recovering from an affair? Then you don’t want to miss this enlightening and provocative conversation with one of America’s leading sex therapists and author, Tammy Nelson. She has helped thousands of people get the sex they want and rethink their sexual agreements for a more passionate and healthy intimate life.
Tammy Nelson, LPC is a licensed...
Recovering from Infidelity with Dr. Tammy Nelson
Rethink what it means to recover from infidelity with Dr. Tammy Nelson, renowned human sexuality experts and author of the several books including The New Monogamy which presents a revolutionary approach to healing a relationship after infidelity. This conversation will give you the courage to face the end of the relationship you lost and inspire you to re-establish your ability to trust yourself...
Get the Sex You Want with Tammy Nelson
Want to learn more about: Getting the Sex You Want – Listen this week to author and Phd Sex therapist Tammy Nelson discuss how to be more sexual in your relationship, how to turn your sexual conversations into a real and growing language as well as important lessons in sexual anatomy to satisfy the human sexual appetite.
The Opening Door – Show 011: Dr. Tammy Nelson
Coming to terms with life and love after infidelity is one of life’s biggest challenges that many long term relationships face. Don’t miss this enlightening conversation with internationally recognized sex and relationship therapist Tammy Nelson as she explains how betrayal can also become an opportunity to redefine your relationship and build a stronger commitment in the wake of infidelity....
Get the Sex You Want with Dr. Tammy Nelson
There may be no bigger paradigm shift in a long term relationship than the discovery or disclosure of an affair. Listen as Dr. Tammy Nelsonexplains the healing and recovery process after infidelity that has the power to bring love back into focus and redefine the erotic agreements defining your monogamy. Author of the best selling “Getting the Sex You Want” Tammy brings her unique and in depth...
December 8th on the Opening Door – Dr. Tammy Nelson
Dr. Tammy Nelson, noted sex therapist and author of Getting the Sex You Want and The New Monogamy is the December 8th guest on The Opening Door. Visit us at TheOpeningDoor.org to listen to the full interview.
The Opening Door – Show 037: Dr. Tammy Nelson, The New Monogamy
Coming to terms with life and love after infidelity is one of life’s biggest challenges that many long term relationships face. Don’t miss this enlightening conversation with internationally recognized sex and relationship therapist Tammy Nelson as she explains how betrayal can also become an opportunity to redefine your relationship and build a stronger commitment in the wake of infidelity....
Recharge your Love Life – Make a Date for Sex
By Dr Tammy Nelson
Many couples have trouble finding the energy to keep up an exciting sex life. Stress, exhaustion, kids, boredom – they can all lead to lack of enthusiasm in the bedroom. One way to recharge your love life is to make a date for sex. Carve out a time for sex in your schedule and put it on your calendar. Make it the same day or night every week. Does that sound spontaneous? Not...
Cyber Sex
by Dr. Tammy Nelson
Is it normal to find sex online? In our current technological culture we use cyber connections to create all of our relationships. We use the internet to manage our social lives, meet new people, and develop both emotional partnerships. Why wouldn’t we find sexual relationships online too?
Today the opportunity to use hand held devices, texting, IM’ing and email as ways to...
If Your Partner Knows, Is it Cheating?
Dr. Tammy Nelson
Studies show that more than half of all women and over sixty percent of men will cheat at some point in their marriage.
This seems like a whole lot of people are having affairs.
But it depends on how you define cheating. New concepts for marriage are popping up all over. Polyamory, from the Greek, ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and the Latin ‘amour’ meaning ‘love,’ simply means ‘many...
Conquering and Being Conquered
By Dr Tammy Nelson
Relationships are sometimes about conquering. We conquer our fears when we conquer the object of our desire. Or we let go of our fear when we allow someone else to conquer us.
In the beginning of a relationship, we desire what we don’t have, wishing for our partner and longing to be with them. And we long to be either conquered or to conquer them. It is a delicious chase to...
Do All Men Cheat?
By Dr Tammy Nelson
Why did Arnold Schwarzenegger cheat on Maria Shriver? Did he feel like he could? Was it because he was the boss of California and the power that comes with being in such a visible position drove him to do it? Did he also drive a big car? Nothing seems like a good enough excuse. And the excuse, “well, all men cheat” isn’t true either.
Some of our inherent and often...
Imago Dialogue Process
By Tammy Nelson, PhD
Mirroring, validating and empathizing are a type of dialogue developed by Harville Hendrix, the author of Getting the Love You Want, a book about couple’s therapy. The dialogue is a structured technique that you can use to talk to each other that helps with communications. This dialogue has worked for thousands of couples around the world. It is a way that may help you to...
Does Everyone Cheat? Can Married Couples Stay Faithful?
By Tammy Nelson, Ph.D
It seems like in the news every day someone famous is cheating – mostly famous and powerful men cheating on their beautiful wives. From the outside, these couples look privileged and happy. They have good looking kids, fame and fortune, and a big house. So how come they cant stay faithful?
Can love and desire really work as the glue that keeps couples together? Men and...
Great Summer Reads to Wake up Your Sex Life
When I think of summer, I have this picture of long lazy days by the water, listening for the distant voices of my children while I wander off into a great book, quietly stepping into some new ways of thinking or sharing in the stories of life that change us just by hearing them. Ana Freud said “Sex is something we do, sexuality is who we are.” What better time than the brief interludes of warm...
Ask the Loveologist: Losing Our Sexual Connection
I am 32, loving wife, mother of one gorgeous boy and 12 weeks pregnant. I’m desperate because I feel so incredibly sad that I’m struggling to be interested in sex the way I used to be – and I think my husband is the same. This has been an ongoing and increasingly pressing issue even before our son was born. My orgasm has slowly become less and less intense and harder to achieve and quite frankly...
Our Sex Life Keeps Getting Smaller
I have been married for over 10 years, but my wife and I have an increasingly hard time communicating about sex. She seems fine about it, but I am not. I always thought we would grow sexually over time, but our sex life just seems to get smaller. She has so many dislikes, like receiving oral, she says it will never happen. I just don’t understand why. Could you help me/us. I’m new to this getting...
Recovery from Infidelity
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no bigger paradigm shift that a relationship experiences than in the aftermath of disclosing or discovering an affair. The betrayal cuts deep and shreds not only the trust between the couple, but often the ability to trust one’s own judgment and the agreements that we believed defined our lives. Less than a third...
Outgrowing Our Sexual Adolescence
“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney Harris
We come into our erotic consciousness in our early adolescence. The process is mostly subconscious as the maturing brain establishes unique patterns of...
Learning the Anatomy of Pleasure
‘Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.’ -Voltaire
There is a lot that we never learned about our own sexual anatomy growing up. In fact, the anatomical facts of nature have been seriously updated. All of this talk of G spots and female ejaculation has inspired a second look. Who knew that the clitoris is not just a magic button crowning the vagina, but was proclaimed...
Three Valentine’s Day Cures
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.” ~Albert Ellis
If we could learn just two things about love that might just cure us of our broken relationships and dissatisfying sex it is this- that love does not come made to order and that we must be willing to ask for what we want. These two misunderstandings about the limits of relationships wreak havoc in the development and maturity...
3 Ways to Rekindle Love This Valentine's Day
There is a cure for the Valentine's Day debacles, and starting now might be a way that you could plan ahead with your partner to make it a day of healing instead of strife.
3 Ways Not To Be Disappointed This Valentine’s Day
There are more breakups associated with Valentine’s Day than any other holiday – mostly because all of our perceived slights and disappointments that happen every day are on full display on that day.