When life hits hard, most couples disconnect - not because they don’t love each other, but because they don’t know how to stay present in the face of shock, stress, or rupture.

In this episode of Reignite: Love, Sex & Truth for Conscious Couples, we share a raw, real-life moment where everything felt destabilized and how tantra became the bridge that brought them back together instead of pulling them apart.

This conversation isn’t theoretical.
It’s lived.
It’s embodied.
And it reveals why this work actually creates lasting change, not by preventing hard moments, but by teaching couples how to return to connection when those moments arrive.

• Why tantra isn’t about staying calm or spiritual… but about learning how to come back when you’re activated or overwhelmed
• How shock and stress land differently in each partner’s nervous system, and why understanding this prevents blame and disconnection
• What most couples do when life falls apart… and how presence, breath, and containment change the outcome completely
• Why repair doesn’t have to be polite or pretty, and how honesty without harm creates real safety
• How delayed trauma shows up days or weeks later, and what allows it to complete instead of getting stuck in the body
• Why tantra builds capacity for real life, not control over it, and how this deepens trust, intimacy, and erotic connection
• What it actually means to choose each other again and again… even when everything feels uncertain

Tantra works not because life gets easier… But because you learn how to stay connected when it doesn’t. And that’s the bridge back to each other.

✨ Save your spot for our upcoming February Couples Retreat: A sacred, guided experience for five couples ready to reconnect, heal, and reignite. Reserve your retreat spot here:

👉 https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com/groupretreats

💫 If you have questions or want to talk before booking, you can schedule an Exploration Call here

https://calendly.com/talk-to-kim/exploration-call

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ABOUT US:

Kim & Roberto are the co-founders of Phoenix Rising Retreats, and the real-life couple behind the mic. Together, they guide couples into deeper body, mind, and soul-based connection through sacred sexuality, Tantra, conscious communication, and nervous system healing.

Kim is a teacher, speaker, and Bestselling Author, bringing years of trauma-informed, professionally certified Intimacy, Relationship & Tantra coaching experience to the podcast mic...

And Roberto joins her side, sharing his grounded masculine insight, hard-knocks inspired wisdom, and a refreshing no-BS perspective on what it actually takes to show up in love.

What started as their own late-night “date night” Tantric adventures turned into a life-changing journey... and now, a re-birthed podcast season for couples who are ready to reignite their passion, deepen their partnership, and rise together.

They’re here to tell the truth about what it means to build sacred partnership- not the filtered, social-media version, but the real, raw, beautifully messy kind that actually lasts.

Follow us below and continue the convo!

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So many couples quietly fear that desire is gone for good… that stress, aging, or hormones have somehow ruined intimacy.

In this episode of Reignite: Love, Sex & Truth for Conscious Couples, we offer a powerful reframe: desire doesn’t die. It goes offline when the body is overwhelmed.

They explore how chronic stress, survival mode, and hormonal shifts shut down pleasure… and how safety, slowing down, and emotional repair bring intimacy back online in ways that feel nourishing instead of forced.

This episode is for anyone who wants to stop blaming themselves or their partner and start understanding what their body is actually asking for.

• Why stress is one of the biggest desire killers and how survival mode overrides pleasure, connection, and libido
• How chronic nervous system activation makes intimacy feel like effort instead of rest
• Why does desire not disappear
• How hormonal shifts in midlife alter the rules of intimacy, inviting presence over performance
• Why touch without agenda and connection without pressure are often what reignite desire
• How unspoken resentment and lack of repair quietly shut down erotic aliveness

Desire isn’t broken.
Your body is protecting you. And when safety returns, pleasure remembers how to rise again.

✨ Save your spot for our upcoming February Couples Retreat: A sacred, guided experience for five couples ready to reconnect, heal, and reignite. Reserve your retreat spot here:

👉 https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com/groupretreats

💫 If you have questions or want to talk before booking, you can schedule an Exploration Call here

https://calendly.com/talk-to-kim/exploration-call

🌙 Sign up for our newsletter to get up to date on everything we have coming and get your free resource of: 5 Simple Ways to Infuse Tantra into your Relationship here:

https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com/tantra

ABOUT US:

Kim & Roberto are the co-founders of Phoenix Rising Retreats, and the real-life couple behind the mic. Together, they guide couples into deeper body, mind, and soul-based connection through sacred sexuality, Tantra, conscious communication, and nervous system healing.

Kim is a teacher, speaker, and Bestselling Author, bringing years of trauma-informed, professionally certified Intimacy, Relationship & Tantra coaching experience to the podcast mic...

And Roberto joins her side, sharing his grounded masculine insight, hard-knocks inspired wisdom, and a refreshing no-BS perspective on what it actually takes to show up in love.

What started as their own late-night “date night” Tantric adventures turned into a life-changing journey... and now, a re-birthed podcast season for couples who are ready to reignite their passion, deepen their partnership, and rise together.

They’re here to tell the truth about what it means to build sacred partnership- not the filtered, social-media version, but the real, raw, beautifully messy kind that actually lasts.

Follow us below and continue the convo!

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.moore.coffin

Instagram -   https://www.instagram.com/get_your_sexy_back_coach/

TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenix.rising.retreats

Website - https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com

If it feels like you and your partner are stuck in the same argument on repeat… you’re not failing at communication.
You’re touching something deeper.

In this episode of Reignite: Love, Sex & Truth for Conscious Couples, we unpack why certain fights keep resurfacing in long-term relationships even when the topic changes and what’s actually required to interrupt the cycle.

They explore how nervous system activation, unmet needs, and missed repair keep couples looping… and how grounding, curiosity, and conscious repair can finally create safety, understanding, and real intimacy.

This episode is for couples who are tired of circling the same conflict and ready for a different way forward.

• Why repeating the same fight isn’t about the issue at hand… but about an unmet emotional need underneath it
• What happens in your nervous system when you’re triggered, and why logic disappears the moment conflict escalates
• How avoidance, shutdown, and makeup sex delay repair instead of resolving what’s actually happening
• What is the emotional and relational cost of unresolved conflict, and why does resentment build when repair is skipped
• Why grounding must come before communication, and what helps you return to your adult self during conflict
• How curiosity dissolves blame and opens the door to understanding, safety, and reconnection
• Why repair may be the most important love language couples were never taught

You don’t keep having the same fight because you’re broken.
You keep having it because something inside you is asking to be seen, met, and healed, and when that happens, intimacy can finally deepen.

✨ Save your spot for our upcoming February Couples Retreat: A sacred, guided experience for five couples ready to reconnect, heal, and reignite. Reserve your retreat spot here:

👉 https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com/groupretreats

💫 If you have questions or want to talk before booking, you can schedule an Exploration Call here

https://calendly.com/talk-to-kim/exploration-call

🌙 Sign up for our newsletter to get up to date on everything we have coming and get your free resource of: 5 Simple Ways to Infuse Tantra into your Relationship here:

https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com/tantra

ABOUT US:

Kim & Roberto are the co-founders of Phoenix Rising Retreats, and the real-life couple behind the mic. Together, they guide couples into deeper body, mind, and soul-based connection through sacred sexuality, Tantra, conscious communication, and nervous system healing.

Kim is a teacher, speaker, and Bestselling Author, bringing years of trauma-informed, professionally certified Intimacy, Relationship & Tantra coaching experience to the podcast mic...

And Roberto joins her side, sharing his grounded masculine insight, hard-knocks inspired wisdom, and a refreshing no-BS perspective on what it actually takes to show up in love.

What started as their own late-night “date night” Tantric adventures turned into a life-changing journey... and now, a re-birthed podcast season for couples who are ready to reignite their passion, deepen their partnership, and rise together.

They’re here to tell the truth about what it means to build sacred partnership- not the filtered, social-media version, but the real, raw, beautifully messy kind that actually lasts.

Follow us below and continue the convo!

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.moore.coffin

Instagram -   https://www.instagram.com/get_your_sexy_back_coach/

TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenix.rising.retreats

Website - https://www.phoenixrisingretreats.com