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How fasting schedules can become barriers to intimacy

Two years of alternate day fasting and my autoimmune symptoms are gone but my marriage counselor says my rigid eating schedule is one of the ways I avoid intimacy and now I do not know what is healing and what is hiding.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The structure that heals the body may simultaneously create walls against the vulnerable spontaneity that deep connection requires.

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