Sex When You Don't Feel Like It - Cyndi Darnell

I found this book to be fantastic, full of brilliant exercises to enhance self-awareness and written in such relatable language for all ages, genders and sexualities- it’s so inclusive. It was published after I had completed my psychosexual training but it would have been a very useful core text. Mismatched sexual desire is a very common complaint from people in sexual relationships and this book really helps to understand and overcome this issue but more than that it contains essential practices for understanding ourselves, our bodies and our minds individually and in relationships, and how to talk about what we want, and how to know why we want it. There is a wealth of information and advice from an incredibly knowledgable expert, illustrative case examples and many questions aimed at helping us reflect on how we got to where we are and inviting us to fire up our imaginations and change things for a more fulfilling and empowering (sex) life: as Cyndi sees it, sex is a relationship to life.