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The Turned-On Couple Podcast

Weekly installments of the book, The Turned-On Couple. Teachings about long-term love that will enlighten, awaken, and inspire, so you can keep love, passion and pleasure in the front of your mind, where they belong. Ready to reignite the spark, deepen intimacy, and transform your relationship? The Turned-On Couple podcast is your go-to guide for real talk about sex, love, emotional connection, and conscious partnership. Hosted by Corinne Farago—relationship coach, author, and intimacy

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12:20

The Art of Sexual Initiation (Part 2): Five Elements...

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2025/09/27

In last week’s chapter of The Turned-On Couple, you learned about why it’s important to master the art of sexual initiation. I use the term “art” because with seduction and initiation there’s no formula, no one-size-fits-all script. In Pt 1 of Sexual Initiation, we learned the importance of understanding our partner’s experience and why communication matters. Mastering sexual initiation requires an understanding of desire, attunement, communication, confidence and (yes) disappointment. Let’s look

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9:39

The Power of Polarity in Your Relationship

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2025/09/13

What is polarity?Equal and opposite energies are found in every part of nature. Cause and effect, Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine, initiating and yielding, giving and receiving, leading and following, light and dark. Each opposite plays its role in forming the whole.Most of us flow easily between these roles. One moment we’re following someone’s lead in conversation or agreeing to someone else’s plans for dinner, and the next we’re giving directives to the babysitter or describing how we want

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7:20

Naked and Afraid: Seven Stress Busters for Your Bedroom

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2025/09/06

Sex and stress do not make happy bedmates. That’s a biological fact.Human suffering, illness, politics, environmental issues, human rights violations, and finances are just some of our stressors. Bad news often comes at us from all directions; conversations with family and friends inevitably end up processing that bad news. Even in our happy moments, the undercurrent of stress may always be present.Biologically, stress is killing our sex drives. Our emotional and physical stress is activating our

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4:48

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling: 80% of Couples Will...

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2025/08/23

Mismatched desire is the number one challenge my clients bring to me for resolution. Statistically, if you’re part of a couple, there’s an 80% chance you have experienced this or are experiencing this in your relationship right now. “We don’t have sex anymore. I don’t understand why.”These clients don’t feel wanted or desired. And they don’t know what to do about it. It usually starts with accusations that it’s their partner’s fault. Clients blame their lack of sex on their partner’s loss of desire

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7:35

From Drought to Desire: Seven Steps Out of Inertia

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2025/08/16

No matter how dry your sex life is right now, there’s a path forward for you as a couple. Like anything in nature, change is constant; everything has an ebb and flow, an expansion and contraction, a rising and falling. Yet when it comes to sex and intimacy, ebbs and flows leave us feeling confounded and insecure.If you asked 100 couples if they’ve ever been through a sexual drought, 90 percent of them would say “YES.” Children, travel, sickness, stress, distance, and hormones all play their part in

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9:24

Playful Lessons From Burning Man

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2025/08/09

This is a milestone post as it’s the final chapter of Part 1 of The Turned-On Couple (relationships). In Part 2 we’ll be moving into the subject of desire, the what, whys and hows of desire in long-term relationships.Burning Man 2025 is around the corner. This year I’m packing up my partner and sending him off for his own experience in our Post Office camp. After 5 years, I’m taking a hiatus and embracing two weeks of fasting from our companionship, including no phone calls. No contact for two weeks

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6:59

Jealousy: Taming the Beast

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2025/08/02

I once sat in on a group conversation about jealousy. The attendees were made up mostly of people in polyamorous and open relationships. For this group, jealousy is an emotion that requires honest investigation to successfully live their chosen relationship models. Those who choose to have multiple partners necessarily need to learn how to manage jealousy by working together with their partners to minimize it. It’s not an easy task, but it’s part of the territory if you want to step outside of the

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4:18

Ritual: Infusing the Mundane with Meaning

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2025/07/05

On a trip to the snowy woods of Northern Wisconsin, I curled up in front of a fire to read a book on Japanese folk religions, a fitting subject for a natural environment that evokes stillness and silence in a busy mind.The Japanese culture is synonymous with ritual, particularly ritual tied to nature’s rhythm and beauty. Shrines, festivals, purification rites, ceremonies, and ancestral veneration all bring meaning to Japanese life and culture. Rituals invite us to go deeper: deeper into the meaning

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8:56

Empathy: An Act of Generosity

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2025/06/28

My partner and I are about halfway through a six-week road trip from San Francisco to Vancouver Island. We’re living, working, and adventuring out of a 19x6 foot camper van we built ourselves, complete with a bed, a tiny kitchen, and just enough space to bump into each other 47 times a day. Thanks to Starlink, we’re still connected to the internet (and the rest of the world), but staying connected to each other is the real challenge these days.Everywhere we go, we see other couples camped out at

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8:43

Loving Your Inner Child: Exploring Attachment Styles

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2025/06/21

We are walking, talking, memory machines. We draw information from old memories and apply it to our present-day decisions. Every pleasure to which we’re drawn, every pain we avoid, every relationship dynamic or conflict pulls from these memories to guide our physical and emotional experiences in the present moment.Interestingly, the memories that most impact our adult emotional state took place long ago, when challenging childhood experiences began to form our strategies for surviving in a dangerous

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10:36

Infidelity: Ten Steps to Unpacking the Pain

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2025/06/15

I used to think I knew who I was, who he was, and suddenly I don’t recognize us, neither him nor me… My entire life, as I’ve led it up to this moment, has crumbled, like in those earthquakes where the very ground devours itself and vanishes beneath your feet while you’re making your escape. There is no turning back.— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman DestroyedA client recently asked me a vulnerable question: “How do I help my partner to heal after my infidelity?”It's a question that sits at the heart of

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7:55

Is There a Bully in Your Relationship?

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2025/06/07

I woke up feeling emotionally battered from news footage I’d watched the night before that personified bullying behavior by a politician. I thought about people who currently live (or have lived) with an adult bully. I wondered how many of them were left emotionally triggered by the embarrassing display played out on national television.Bullying can happen in every form of relationship from the boardroom to the bedroom. I see all the subtle and not-so-subtle forms of bullying with some of my

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8:25

Addicted to Love: Hormonal Cocktails That Keep Us...

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2025/05/31

Your lights are on, but you’re not homeYour mind is not your ownYour heart sweats, your body shakesAnother kiss is what it takesYou can’t sleep, you can’t eatThere’s no doubt, you’re in deepYour throat is tight, you can’t breatheAnother kiss is all you need— Robert Palmer, You’re Addicted to LoveAsk most couples about the early stages of their relationship, and they’ll remember the ease they experienced around sex and intimacy. They’ll stare off into space with memories of testosterone-driven lust

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5:49

The Curse of Confirmation Bias: How We Look for Proof...

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2025/05/24

As I said last week, Part 1 (chapters 1-28) of the Turned-On Couple is where the rubber meets the relationship road. This is where you lay the foundation for intimacy and desire to grow. So let’s look at another more nuanced part of relating that be a silent killer of connection. Confirmation biasWe all have it. We experience it every day in the news, our politics, our workplace, and (most directly) in our relationships, where partners can suffer the consequences of confirmation bias on a daily

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9:03

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Getting to the Core of Your...

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2025/05/17

As we progress through Part 1 of The Turned-On Couple, which is focused on love and relationship dynamics, you’re getting an idea of how many aspects of your relationship can impact your sex life. Building a strong, secure foundation as a couple allows for honesty, trust and the security to explore and grow together. Many couples will begin coaching with the goal of creating a better sex life. What they often discover is that sex is just one branch of their relationship tree. Power dynamics,

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6:26

Finding the Gifts in Conflict by Diving Below the...

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2025/05/10

As we’ve learned in earlier chapters, no matter who you are or how happy you are in your relationship, you’re going to experience conflict. Experiencing conflict in your relationship is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of wisdom: It’s simply a polarized dialogue between two people holding opposing positions. How we navigate this dialogue is determined by how skillful we are at moving through conflict as a couple.The Saboteur mind versus the Sage mindWhen it comes to our inner battles and moments

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5:54

Defensiveness: Breaking the Cycle in Your Relationship

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2025/05/03

This is the final Horseman we know all too well. Defensiveness. Every one of Dr. John Gottman’s Four Horsemen (Contempt, Stonewalling, Criticizing, Defensiveness) is a maladaptive strategy to protect us from harm.I’m sure you can trace your protective strategies back through the ages, even to the playground, when you were first introduced to these deadly relationship horsemen so many years ago.“No, I’m not, you are!” “I didn’t do it, you did!” “I didn’t want to be your friend anyway!”We learned very

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5:26

Chapter 13. Stonewalling: The Weaponizing of Silence

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2025/04/26

Stonewalling is the third behavior in what's known as the Four Horsemen; four toxic communication habits that, according to Dr. John Gottman's research, are strong predictors of a relationship's breakdown. Stonewalling is a form of emotional and physical withdrawal and punishment in which one relationship partner refuses to engage with the other partner in the midst of a conflict. Stonewalling may involve a lack of response to a conversation, a refusal to discuss a point of disagreement, or an

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7:19

Chapter 12. Contempt: Crossing the Line into Toxic...

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2025/04/19

Narrated by Corinne FaragoLast week we talked about researcher John Gottman’s Four Horsemen, identifying patterns of four deadly relationship dynamics. This week we’re looking at contempt. What does contempt look like, and how do we tame that wild beast?I remember the first time I recognized contempt in a couple early on in my coaching career. They would swing from language that was supportive and loving into nasty words and behaviors that showed utter contempt for each other. When communication

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6:57

Chapter 11. The Turned-On Couple: Criticism: It’s...

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2025/04/05

Renowned psychologists, John and Julie Gottman have made significant contributions to the field of couples therapy and relationship research.One of their contributions is the model known as “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” to describe communication patterns that can predict the end of a relationship. That’s right, based on years of research with thousands of couples, we can predict which relationships will end based on four toxic behaviors.They

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