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Scenario

When couples rebuild physical intimacy during dual recovery

My partner and I are both in recovery and we're dealing with completely different physical symptoms - they have chronic pain that got worse after stopping opioids, I'm dealing with digestive issues from years of drinking - and we're trying to be intimate again but our bodies feel like strangers to us and to each other. We don't know how to reconnect physically when everything feels different and fragile.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people in recovery are trying to rediscover physical connection while both of their bodies are healing and changing in different ways.

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Addiction — physical dimension?”

Peri

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