Dee Salmon

With grief, we know that there's stages.

You know, you'll come out of it.

What's your advice with feeling overwhelmed or feeling a type of depression around the state of the world?

Like how do you, you know, for some people it might be all consuming.

It's like there is no, you as an individual cannot just be like, oh, in two weeks' time climate change won't be there.

Yeah, totally.

Or in a month's time like I'll feel better about my finances or the cost of living or the struggle that I'm going through.

What's your advice around that?

Yeah, trying to navigate pleasure when you feel like there is no way to get out of that state of mind.

Is it often easier to reconnect with your own pleasure on your own, right?

Like one of those practical steps is, you know, trying to connect with your body.

Then before bringing a partner into a mix, like should you try and do that on your own and then bring a partner in?

How do you then have that convo with a partner, right?

Like say you are struggling at the moment and maybe you've got a bit of a low libido or you're just not really feeling motivated or you're really struggling with desire to have sex.

Like how do you speak to someone about that that, yeah, you might potentially be about to hook up with or have sex with?

Yeah.

It's like if you potentially want to just like kiss for a bit, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

It's like, or we could just cuddle or we could just, you know, hold hands or watch a show or there's so many different ways.

Like you've been saying that you can still have that connection and experience pleasure that maybe doesn't feel as big as being like, oh my God, we're going to have an hour long.