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Yolanda is a Somatic Attachment Therapist working with childhood trauma, identity and self-awareness, and is known as The Conscious Life Coach, helping people create a life by design, not disaster. As a psychospiritual life coach she blends neuroscience and psychology with soul work and life purpose, helping clients release the emotional imprints of past experiences, reconnect with their true identity and develop unshakable self-trust. She is the creator of Wild Words and The Emotional Rewire Method.
BSc (Hons) Psych/Phys · MSc Onc · S.A.T. (EL) · LC-NLP (Cert)
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Iysha Barrett Morichon writes about motherhood, desire and the changing seasons of a woman’s life. Her work honours the small, private ways desire survives busy family life and gives women permission to notice what still feels good.
Desire in the season of sunscreen and school holidays: how mothers can remain connected to their bodies, sensuality and pleasure amid the demands of family life.
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Catherine is a Divorce and Co-parenting Coach who specialises in helping parents navigate the stress of separation and divorce, while protecting the wellbeing of children who can easily feel caught in the middle.
Qualified Teacher · Accredited Coach
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Lara is the founder of Mindful Growth Therapy and a Marriage & Family Therapist Associate practising in Florida, specialising in trauma, relationships and couples therapy. Her clinical approach is rooted in mindfulness-based and relational frameworks, with a strong emphasis on cultural identity, intergenerational experience and the impact of trauma on connection. Her core values are cultural humility, compassion, authenticity, accountability and respect.
MA · RMFTI · CCTP
Sexual intimacy is rarely only about sex. Beneath physical connection, couples may be asking whether they are wanted, important, safe and emotionally held.
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Donna, also known as Lady D, is the founder of House of Wild Ltd and Blissful Wellness, and has been an erotica writer for nearly 20 years exploring desire as both art and psychology. Her work blends sensuality with emotional depth, examining power, intimacy, fantasy and the tension between anticipation and fulfilment, and champions consent, communication and the power of safe exploration.
Feeling desirable is not something another person grants you. Donna separates being chosen from knowing that you remain sensual, alive and fully yourself.
Read article →Wanting sex while single is neither a contradiction nor a crisis. Desire can coexist with independence, boundaries and strong standards.
Read article →Four days of sunshine, nobody else’s agenda, and a woman who went looking for herself.
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Debi Richens is the founder of The Relationship Phoenix® and a trauma recovery and reclamation coach specialising in family alienation, estrangement and emotionally complex relationships. Combining lived experience with advanced training in NLP and hypnotherapy, she helps adults move from silence and emotional survival into clarity, self-leadership and relational stability.
NLP & Hypnotherapy Trainer · Parental Alienation Awareness Trustee
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Rebekah Gabrielle is a relationship coach, author, and spiritual guide who helps women heal from past relationship wounds and create love that feels healthy, soulful, and real. Through her Relationship Readiness Course and 1:1 coaching, she teaches women how to understand their patterns, rebuild self-worth, and open their hearts to genuine connection.
Hypnotherapy · Pain Therapy · Relationship Coaching
Rebekah Gabrielle is a holistic therapist and relationship coach who works with people ready to understand themselves more deeply and create lasting change from the inside out. Her work brings together hypnotherapy, pain therapy, and multidimensional healing to support emotional, relational, and physical well-being.
Her approach is shaped not only by professional training, but by lived experience. She works with what is stored in the body, the nervous system, and the subconscious, helping clients make sense of patterns, pain, and relationships with compassion rather than judgment.
Rebekah creates a calm, grounded space where insight can emerge naturally, and healing does not need to be rushed or forced. Sessions are intuitive, practical, and deeply personal, designed to meet each client exactly where they are.
Private sessions are available for those seeking thoughtful, integrative coaching. Her teachings are known for their honesty, depth, and a touch of humour, all rooted in her own journey of transformation.
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Katie Oman is an award-winning author who is fiercely passionate about advocating for women. Through her empowerment coaching, she helps women across the globe, from Australia to the US, connect with their inner magic and fire so they can live their best lives for themselves.
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Michelle is a deeply empathic and intuitive Person Centred Counsellor who creates spaces where people feel truly safe, heard and seen. Often described as a ‘safe space’ herself, her empathy helps clients share stories they once thought they could never voice.
CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
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As a grief and trauma informed transformational Coach and Energy Healer, Claudia helps action-oriented people break free from repeating limiting patterns of anxiety and overwhelm. Drawing from her journey through trauma, corporate success, and total burnout, she bridges grounded strategy with deep energetic alchemy. Claudia integrates nervous system regulation, somatic clearing, and subconscious resetting to dissolve these exhausting behavioral loops. She provides a safe, high-frequency space for you to reclaim your vital life force, master your choices, and live with unshakeable peace.
You can connect with Claudia at claudiamolnar.com.
A deliberate pause can help you heal, reconnect with your values and enter your next relationship as yourself rather than as a reaction to the last one.
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How to reclaim your true identity
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On resilience, responsibility, and why relationships are where we truly heal
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Desire in the season of sunscreen and school holidays
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Protecting your peace, and your children's emotional safety, when divorce turns into a battleground
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Love, understanding, and the space to heal
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Seduction of the mind first, because desire begins there
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Values, boundaries and the return to self
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Rebuilding trust, safety and self-love after narcissistic abuse
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On the quiet taboo of life after a break-up, and learning to choose yourself
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Toxic relationships, and spotting manipulation in dialogue
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What genuine space can return to you after a relationship ends
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Why emotional needs matter in your sex life, and what the body is really asking for
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Feeling desirable is not something another person grants you
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Wanting sex when you are single, and why that is not a crisis
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Four days of sunshine, nobody else’s agenda, and a woman who went looking for herself
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We are just getting started in this category, and new articles are on their way. In the meantime, meet the writers behind the magazine, or read across our other sections.
Meet the AuthorsThe long haul: communication, commitment and keeping connection alive.
Endings, identity and finding your way back to yourself after a relationship closes.
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Desire, pleasure, the body and the honest conversations most of us never got to have.
Desire in the season of sunscreen and school holidays.
Why emotional needs matter in your sex life, and what the body is really asking for.
Feeling desirable is not something another person grants you.
Wanting sex when you are single, and why that is not a crisis.
Four days of sunshine, nobody else’s agenda, and a woman who went looking for herself.
Money, work and the way they quietly shape our relationships and our sense of worth.
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Self-awareness, confidence and the work of becoming more fully yourself.
A gentle invitation to feel seen, safe and at home in yourself again.
Read the editor’s letter →How old wounds shape the way we love, and the real work of healing them.
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Raising children, blended families and the relationships we are born into.
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The Relationship Magazine was created by Natalie Jane, a counsellor and relationship coach, as a safe space to explore the truth of relationships without judgment. It is writing you can return to again and again, for whatever season you are in.
Each issue takes a different theme, from intimacy and boundaries to money, parenting and midlife transitions, with expert contributors covering mindset, somatic healing, burnout prevention and communication. The aim is simple: honest, warm, expert writing that helps you understand yourself and your connections a little better.
We believe the patterns that shape our relationships are usually learned long before we realise it, and that they can be unlearned. Our contributors write from both professional grounding and lived experience, because the most useful writing on relationships tends to come from people who have done the work themselves.
Natalie Jane is the founder and editor of The Relationship Magazine. As a therapist, counsellor and relationship coach, she works with people who are ready to stop simply surviving and start truly living. Her mission is to remind you that your story matters, your healing matters, and you are never alone.
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Bring us the question you have been turning over, about love, intimacy, a pattern you cannot shift, or simply where to start. Our panel of therapists and coaches answer reader questions each month, anonymously.
How do I stop bracing for an argument every time my partner goes quiet?
That bracing is usually an old protective habit, not a fact about your relationship. Notice the moment your body tenses, name it to yourself, and where it feels safe, name it gently to your partner too: "When it goes quiet I start to worry, can you let me know you are ok?" Most quiet is not rejection, and saying the fear out loud often takes its power away.
We love each other but the spark has faded. Is that normal, and can it come back?
It is extremely normal, and yes. Desire tends to need a little space and novelty to grow, which long-term closeness can quietly squeeze out. Start with curiosity rather than pressure: time together without an agenda, honest conversation about what each of you enjoys, and small moments of attention through the week. The spark rarely returns by waiting for it; it returns by tending to it.
A gentle six-question reflection on how you tend to show up in close relationships. This is for insight and curiosity, not a clinical assessment, and there are no wrong answers.
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