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How Liz Improved Her Sexual Health and Marital Intimacy
Liz shares a recent experience that led her from “masturbation is a sin” to “masturbation is totally fine.” Which shifted and improved everything about her sexual health and marital intimacy. Continue the improving intimacy discussion by joining the Improving Intimacy Facebook group.
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Daniel Burgess Shares his Journey in Reshaping Sexual Health within the LDS Community
Daniel A. Burgess LMFT is in the hot seat in this episode as the author of Earthly Parents: And It Was Very Good: A Latter-day Saint’s Guide to Lovemaking (by the book!) asks the questions. Daniel shares his journey in reshaping sexual health within the LDS Community, and how faithful LDS can improve their sexual…
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Empowering Women | Liz Glorioso on Being Authentic, Confident and Discovering your Sexual Identity
Message from Liz: I know I can help you, because I have been you! I have gone through a divorce, one night stands, friend zoned, breakups, emotional abuse, hundreds of dates, long term and long distance relationships, you name it.. I have experienced it. There came a point when I said “enough is enough” and…
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Depression and Anxiety in Marriage | Nich and Kelsey Learn to Establishing Healthy Boundaries and Communication
Nich is a 28-year-old convert to the church and has been married to Kelsey for almost 2 years now. Father to the almost 1-year-old Evelynn. Having dealt with depression and ADHD for most of my life but not getting diagnosed and treatment until my mid-20’s caused a lot of problems that were not approached until…
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Sexual Health | Evelyn’s Experiences with Masturbation, Vaginismus, Anxiety and Marriage
<a href=”https://play.google.com/music/m/I4ajutptwnpmkz3hqbpsc6zyhn4?t=Improving_Intimacy_in_Latter-day_Saint_Relationships” ><img alt=”Get it on Google Play app store download badge” class=”wp-image-284″ src=”https://danielaburgess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/download-104.webp”/></a> This Post is broken out into two separate sections; Evelyn’s written first-hand account of her sexual health journey as a Latter-day Saint and the full transcript of Evelyn’s podcast interview. Evelyn’s written first-hand account of her sexual health journey: As a…
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Reigniting the Flame with Amy and Aaron
<img alt=”Intimate black and white close-up of a man kissing a woman's forehead” class=”wp-image-266″ src=”https://danielaburgess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image-asset-087.webp”/> Reigniting the flame….when it has dimmed. Keeping it fresh and fun after decades of marriage and navigating all of the changes that occurs as we age. We had been married around 25 years and our intimate relationship had pretty much…
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Betrayal Trauma: Anarie’s Definition of Success
Donate In our last episode Anarie shares her experience with betrayal trauma. At the end of the interview I had stopped the recording just before she made another important and insightful comment. She apologized for not having a “success” story. Knowing that comment would lead into a valuable conversation I asked to continue recording and…
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Intro to Improving Intimacy Podcast
Welcome to “Improving Intimacy”, a podcast for single and married Latter-day Saints seeking to build stronger family connections and marriages. I am your host, Daniel A. Burgess Marriage & Family Therapist, father, husband, author, podcaster and presenter. Like Lehi tasting of the fruit from the tree of life, my profound love and testimony for the…
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Come As You Are
Join us this month in reading Emily Nagoski, PhD book “Come As You Are”. Leave your impressions, thoughts and question about what you have read in the comments. We will reference the comments in our book club meet up. Book Club Announcement Great News! We are starting an IIMM virtual book club! What does this…
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