Charlie Henderson: How To Talk About Intimacy

Seriously Authentic

Charlie uses sensitivity as their greatest superpower, if you want to learn how to communicate with your intimate partner, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Seriously Authentic, Larissa speaks with Charlie Henderson. Charlie is an intimacy and empowerment coach. Charlie supports their clients in experiencing an authentic relationship with themselves, true liberation of the body, and the fullest expression of their desires. Charlie’s teachings draw on the ancient traditions of Tantra, Yoga, and Taoism and blend them with Western neuroscience, psychology, and trauma healing.

In this conversation Charlie & Larissa cover:

• Charlie’s formative childhood memories
• Charlie’s deep relationship with their sister and how they learned how to practice boundaries first with their sister
• Charlie explains the first boundary they put in place around being “too sensitive”
• Charlie talks about retiring from their 20-year dance career
• How Charlie’s time in college started them down the path of getting interested in intimacy and an intuitive relationship with their body
• Charlie speaks to their biggest hangup around intimacy and pleasure
• How everyone experiences seasons in sexuality
• Charlie talks about how they used to just want to be a generic life coach and how that shifted for them
• What it was like to step into the title of sex and intimacy coach
• How Charlie balances family and business
• Charlie speaks about how their people-pleaser had to die to embrace being an intimacy and empowerment coach
• Charlie speaks to how we all are performative in relationships, and outside of it
• Charlie shares a hack to have better intimacy with your partner, which involves giving less
• Charlie shares how they set clear boundaries at the beginning of dating
• Charlie recounts a hot dating experience
• Charlie breaks down how jealousy and judgment can be teachers to shed light on our desires
• Charlie breaks down what they see as authentic jealousy vs. taught jealous

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