Blog Posts - bound together counseling

Yahoo!Life: What’s it like to talk about your open marriage on TikTok? Here’s how one couple pushes past the 'negativity.'

7/8/2022

There isn't just one reason people engage in a non-monogamous relationship. While some feel that being in love with one person exclusively feels like an "arbitrary constraint that limits their capacity for love and relationship," Goerlich says, other couples face different factors, be it a life event that “makes sexual intimacy difficult” for one partner, or simply “mixed desire” in relationships.

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Mic.com: How to ask for abortion assistance at work

6/29/2022

“App-based services have some pretty significant data privacy concerns,” Goerlich says. “This is not a time to discuss your abortion care needs on those platforms.”

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Mic.com: Why is this allegedly sentient CHATBOT MAKING ME SO EMOTIONAL?

6/19/2022

“Can we tell the difference between actual emotion and emotional mimicry? Does the difference matter?...The real question that LaMDA provokes, then, is about how we respond to emotion — not whether or not emotion is “real.”

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mic.com:"DOPAMINE DRESSING" IS OUR NEW POST-PANDEMIC SALVE

5/9/2022

“The hypothalamus controls our sexual behaviors, emotional responses, internal temperature, appetite, etc. and the combined impact of subtle changes in these various functions could absolutely be interpreted as ‘pink makes me feel happier,’” for example,”

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The detroit Jewish News: Jewish Therapist Focuses on Helping Religious Couples Get More Satisfaction in Their Relationship

5/2/2022

“Some of my favorite people to work with are religiously conservative young couples who are Jewish, Christian and Muslim, who get married very young because that’s the only way to morally explore their sexual desire for one another... Then they realize they don’t know what to do or were not as sexually compatible as they believed.”

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Mic.com: INTROVERT OR EXTROVERT? YOUR ANSWER MAY HOLD AN IMPORTANT CLUE TO YOUR BRAIN HEALTH

4/12/2022

“A strong social support network and consistent interactions with people is absolutely a protective factor for our cognitive health, so it makes some sense that extroverted people would experience lower rates of cognitive decline,” says Stefani Goerlich, a Detroit-based psychotherapist. “Likewise, people who are more conscientious in general are probably more conscientious about managing their health proactively- which again, will protect against cognitive decline,” Goerlich explains.

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Insider: How to practice tantric sex, a meditative form of intimacy that can improve relationships

4/6/2022

"The result of tantric practice is the creation of close bonds with one's partner, greater awareness of one's body, and the development of skills such as mindfulness, restraint, and communication."

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Cosmopolitan: Sexual Assault made me want to have sex more

2/4/2022

“Having the power to choose when and with whom to have sex, knowing that they can say stop and that request will be honored, can be a big part of the healing process for some survivors.”

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Beautiful+Machine magazine: Sex therapist stefani goerlich keeping in real

2/1/2022

"We all have fractures, we all have cracks. It might not always be sexual, but we have the shame, the guilt that we carry. My job is to hold space for my clients and to help them come to see themselves as worthy and deserving. And whole—just as they are”

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morning beat: are kids identifying as cats?

1/25/2022

Stefani talks furry culture and the stigma experienced by furry aficionados with Channel Q's A.J. and Mikalah.

Segment begins at 33:22

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