Why going numb is the body’s oldest form of protection, not proof the love has gone, and how feeling slowly comes back. By Juliette Karaman | Wellbeing Warrior | Confidence Magazine There is a particular silence that lives inside a good life. The children are asleep. The man you chose is beside you. His hand finds your shoulder in the dark, the way it has a thousand times, and you wait to feel something. You wait, and nothing comes. Not desire. Not sadness. Not even irritation. A flat, clean nothing, and a thought you have never said out loud. I…
Author: Juliette Karaman
Juliette Karaman
Juliette Karaman is an intimacy and touch expert. Over twenty-seven years, from teaching autistic children to feel safe in their own skin, to fifteen years with couples and trauma, she has learned how touch lands and why it stops. She teaches The Touch Reset, for people who love someone and cannot find the door back in. Host of The Scrumptious Woman podcast, featured in Forbes, The Times, ITV and TED.
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Non-Sexual Touch: What Happened When a Million People Watched My Partner Trace My Jaw The outrage told me everything about why intimacy is breaking down. A million people watched my partner trace my jaw. He did it slowly, fingertips only, the lightest possible contact along the line from temple to chin. I received it with my eyes closed, my jaw softened, doing nothing but feeling it land. Forty-eight hours later my inbox was full of fury. Finger-wagging messages from people who had decided what they were watching. “Who do you think you are? What are you teaching? Are…