Parvonae Fernandez Licensed Psychologist, Sex Therapist
Dr. Fernandez assists you in managing conflict and increasing intimacy and connection in your relationship.
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How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women By Terrence Real
AUDIOBOOK: The demand for intimacy in marriage must be met with new skills... $17.50
The Brain in Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life By Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
BOOK: Based on Dr. Daniel Amen’s cutting-edge neuroscience research, The Brain in Love shares twelve lessons that help you enhance your love life through understanding and improving brain function.
Rekindle The Passion with the 4C's by Steve Brody and Cathy Brody.
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When couples enter midlife together, a myriad of pressures, issues and concerns await them. The children head out into the world while an elderly mother in need of care may move in. A spouse may experience declining health.
Dissatisfaction, depression and boredom, which may have plagued the relationship but been kept at bay for the sake of "the family," could emerge as the children leave home and a couple spends more time together again.
What can a couple do to address midlife issues and bring the focus back on themselves and any facet of their marriage that may have been neglected while the children were at home?
Sexual intimacy often is lost in the balancing of kids, career and housekeeping responsibilities during the childrearing years. Nationally recognized relationship counselors Steve and Cathy Brody offer key insights on couplehood at midlife in their book "Renew Your Marriage at Midlife" (Penguin Putnam, 1999). They recommend the Four Cs of sexual arousal (creativity, courage, communication, courtship) to set the home fires burning again.
The Four Cs excerpted below are from the book Renew Your Marriage at Midlife: a guide to growing together in love by Steve and Cathy Brody*:
Creativity
Don't become the victim of routine.
Courage
You need the courage to stand by your needs and desires.
Communication
Besides enhancing intimacy, communication helps resolve sex problems.
Eros and the Circle of Divine Love by David Fideler Love is more than a merely human emotion. In the Greek tradition, the power of Eros was seen as the underlying force which moves the heavenly spheres and animates all of existence. Love is the magnetic pull which binds all of creation together into a seamless unity…
Re-statement of Romance by Wallace Stevens Comments (0) The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
And you. Only we two may interchange
Each in the other what each has to give.
Only we two are one, not you and night,
Nor night and I, but you and I, alone,
So much alone, so deeply by ourselves,
So far beyond the casual solitudes,
That night is only the background of our selves,
Supremely true each to its separate self,
In the pale light that each upon the other throws.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
BOOK: "Everything we think we know about what motivates us is wrong..."
Sex on the Brain: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life
BOOK: 12 lessons that help you enhance your love and sex lives through understanding and improving brain function.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted
BOOK: Medical research now says: focus on your brain, and your body will follow. “An essential book for anyone trying to improve their body and their health." - Andrew Newberg, M.D., brain imaging researcher at the University of Pennsylvania
Rekindle The Passion 
Eros and the Circle of Divine Love by David Fideler 
Re-statement of Romance by Wallace Stevens 
