04:07 min
CLEAR ALL
Questions about sexuality and disability answered by New Zealand kiwi Claire Freeman.
Part one of a Q&A series about how we manage intimacy in our interabled relationship.
Shane Burcaw is diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and has dated Hannah for three years. Many people mistake Hannah as his nurse. Shane wants others to know that he is deserving of love and in a relationship that is both emotionally and physically intimate.
In this video, we talk about intimacy and disability.
Shame is at the intersection of individual psychology healing and social change. Clinically, when we follow the path of our shame, we experience the greatest healing, and culturally, when we move past the power of shame we can act together to improve civil rights for all.
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What about the important issues of intimacy and of sexuality in aging? Dr. Herbert Benson, one of the original researchers who showed that we can in fact use our rational faculties to affect body states, is interviewed about the working with the human emotions and needs.