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Why intimacy triggers disconnection from your body

I feel like I am floating outside my body during sex and I cannot stay present no matter how safe I feel with my partner.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dissociation during vulnerable moments is a protective mechanism that activates when the nervous system perceives intimacy as unsafe.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Trauma in the body — somatic approaches?”

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