Why Women Stop Wanting Sex
Not One More Task: Reclaiming Intimacy Without Pressure or Obligation
If sex has started to feel like another obligation, you’re not alone.
This live workshop helps women understand why desire shuts down under pressure—and how to reclaim intimacy without guilt or self-abandonment.
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Why Women Stop Wanting Sex Isn’t What You’ve Been Told
Many women reach midlife exhausted—not just from work, caregiving, and responsibility, but from the quiet pressure to keep showing up sexually when they don’t actually want to.
You may love your partner.
You may care about intimacy.
And still, sex feels like something you owe.
That doesn’t mean something is wrong with you.
In many cases, losing desire is a typical response to pressure.
What’s Really Happening
When sex becomes something you do to:
- keep the peace
- avoid disappointment
- be a “good partner”
- manage someone else’s feelings
intimacy stops feeling like connection and starts feeling like work.
Over time:
- desire fades
- resentment grows
- numbness sets in
Many women blame themselves for this, but it's not their fault..
This workshop explains why women stop wanting sex—and what changes when pressure is removed.
Your Life Looks Successful on the Outside…
But It Feels Lonely Behind the Scenes.
You’ve built an impressive career.
You handle everything.
You’re the reliable one — the achiever, the fixer, the emotional anchor.
But privately?
- You feel emotionally disconnected from your partner.
- You miss feeling supported, understood, and close.
- You carry the emotional workload for your entire family.
- You long for friendships that feel real, deep, and nourishing.
- Intimacy feels distant, complicated, or pressured.
- Work is the only place where you consistently feel engaged, capable, and valued.
- And you worry that without your career, your personal life may feel painfully empty.
If you recognize yourself here, you’re not alone — and you’re not failing.
You were never taught how to build a connected, fulfilling personal life.
You were taught to perform, to lead, to excel, to take care of everyone else. You were taught that your productivity defined your worth.
But you deserve more than a life that looks good while feeling disconnected.
And it doesn’t have to stay this way.
Introducing
The Midlife Renaissance™
A 12-week transformation designed to help high-achieving women create a personal life as rich, connected, and fulfilling as their professional one.
You’ve spent so many years focusing outward — achieving, supporting, managing, and holding everything together — that your own emotional world has slowly faded into the background.
The Midlife Renaissance™ was created to help you change that.
This program is a guided, deeply supportive experience that helps you:
- rebuild emotional intimacy
- restore meaningful connection
- explore who you are outside of work
- claim self-worth that's not based on productivity
- create healthy boundaries without guilt
- develop real, nourishing friendships
- feel more comfortable with sexual intimacy
- and shape a second half of life that feels purposeful and alive
It’s not about working harder.
It’s not about being more.
And it’s not about “fixing” yourself.
It’s about learning a new way to relate —
to yourself, to others, and to the life you want to create moving forward.
A way that feels grounded, aligned, connected, and emotionally satisfying.
If you’re ready to stop feeling alone in a life full of responsibility…
and start building a chapter defined by closeness, fulfillment, and meaning…
You’re exactly who this program was designed for.
This is not a “bubble bath and journaling” program.
This is a structured, evidence-informed reinvention of how you connect, communicate, love, and value yourself.
Created by a psychotherapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and midlife reinvention coach, this program helps you build the second half of life you’re truly excited to live.
The Transformation You’ll Experience Inside
The Midlife Renaissance™
After 12 weeks, you won’t just understand what needs to change — you’ll feel the difference in your daily life.
Inside this experience, you will begin to:
- Feel emotionally connected in your relationships.
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Create healthy boundaries that reduce resentment and overwhelm. No more carrying the emotional weight of everyone else’s needs.
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Develop friendships that feel real, safe, and deeply supportive. Discover the proven techniques for being heard by your partner and expressing your wants and needs.
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Experience intimacy that feels natural, comfortable, and emotionally grounded.
- Rediscover who you are beyond work, caregiving, and responsibility.
- Build a life that feels purposeful and satisfying — not just productive.
- Honor your needs, desires and integrity.
The Foundation: 5 Pillars
These are the cornerstones of designing a meaningful personal life.
Know Yourself
Reconnect with your identity, values, and emotional needs after years of responsibility, caregiving, and achievement. Establish the foundation for genuine connection and fulfillment.
Fulfilling Relationships
Learn how to cultivate meaningful, emotionally nourishing friendships and supportive connections. Move beyond surface-level interactions into relationships that feel mutual, balanced, and real.
Love & Intimacy
Rebuild emotional closeness and create a comfortable, pressure-free pathway back to intimacy. Strengthen connection with your partner while addressing desire, comfort, and sexual well-being in midlife.
Self-Worth & Emotional Wellness
Build inner security, emotional steadiness, and confidence that isn’t tied to productivity or caretaking. Strengthen self-respect, emotional balance, and the ability to express your needs clearly and calmly.
Reinvent Your Second Half
Create a future that feels purposeful, connected, and aligned with who you are becoming. Redesign your personal life, relationships, and emotional world so the second half of life feels meaningful and alive.
These pillars form the foundation of your transformation — guiding you from disconnection and overwhelm to clarity, connection, confidence, and lasting fulfillment.
What We’ll Cover
(The 12-Week Curriculum)
Know Yourself (Weeks 1–3)
Week 1 — Coming Home to Yourself
Why life looks successful but feels disconnected. Understanding the Disconnected High Achiever™ pattern and the emotional toll of over-responsibility.
Week 2 — Identity, Values & Emotional Needs
Reconnect with the woman you are beneath the roles, expectations, and constant doing. Clarify what you truly need to feel fulfilled and grounded.
Week 3 — Boundaries & Emotional Self-Respect
Learn to set healthy limits without guilt. Stop overfunctioning and reclaim space for your emotional well-being.
Fulfilling Relationships (Weeks 4–5)
Week 4 — Deepening Friendship & Connection
How to create nourishing, emotionally safe friendships. Stop settling for surface-level connections and begin building true support.
Week 5 — Emotional Intimacy With Your Partner
Rebuild closeness, empathy, and understanding. Learn how to have conversations that create connection instead of distance.
Love & Intimacy (Weeks 6–8)
Week 6 — Understanding Intimacy Drift in Midlife
Why emotional and sexual intimacy fade — and how to begin reversing the pattern with compassion and clarity.
Week 7 — A Gentle Path to Closeness & Comfort
Rediscover physical and emotional intimacy without pressure or performance. Focus on safety, comfort, and genuine connection.
Week 8 — Desire, Pleasure & Sexual Confidence in Midlife
Navigate desire differences, menopause changes, and your partner’s ED with confidence, tenderness, and honest communication.
Self-Worth & Emotional Wellness (Weeks 9–10)
Week 9 — Rebuilding Inner Security & Self-Worth
Feel valued for who you are, not just what you do. Strengthen inner confidence and a sense of emotional safety.
Week 10 — Emotional Regulation & Healthy Communication
Learn how to stay grounded — even in conflict. Express needs without fear, guilt, or defensiveness, and respond instead of react.
Reinvent Your Second Half (Weeks 11–12)
Week 11 — Redesigning Your Personal Life & Relationships
Integrate new habits, boundaries, and rituals that support long-term connection. Align your daily life with the kind of relationships you truly want.
Week 12 — The Connected Midlife Life Plan™
Your vision, purpose, and relationship plan for the second half of life. Leave with a clear, practical roadmap for a life that feels connected, meaningful, and fully yours.
This curriculum isn’t about learning more — it’s about living differently,
with connection, fulfillment,
and emotional freedom at the center of your life.
What’s Included in
The Midlife Renaissance™
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12 Weekly Live Group Coaching Calls
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One Private 1:1 Breakthrough Session
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Audio Lessons & Replays
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Resources for Boundaries, Communication, Intimacy, Friendship
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Private Community for Connection + Support
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Voxer Support Throughout the 12-week Program
- The Connected Midlife Workbook
Hi, I'm Dr. Heather England
I’m a midlife reinvention coach, a relationship expert, a psychotherapist, and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist with a PhD in Clinical Sexology and an MBA in leadership.
I’ve also been a military officer, corporate senior manager, small business owner, online entrepreneur, wife, mother, grandmother, and athlete.
I help high-achieving women because I am one.
I understand what it means to excel at work while feeling disconnected at home…
to carry the emotional load for everyone…
to long for deeper intimacy, real friendship, and a life that feels like yours again.
I built The Midlife Renaissance™ to help women like you create a life where you feel truly seen, valued, and emotionally alive.
The Midlife Renaissance™ is for you if…
- You feel lonely or disconnected at home
- You want meaningful emotional intimacy with your partner
- You want sexual intimacy to feel natural and connected
- You’re tired of overfunctioning
- You want deeper friendships
- You want purpose, passion, and fulfillment in the second half of life
- You’re seeking real conversations, guidance, and supportive sisterhood
This program is not for you if…
- You’re looking for clinical therapy
- You want a quick fix
- You’re unwilling to reflect or grow
If you’re ready to feel connected, valued, intimate, and fully alive in the second half of your life…
Then The Midlife Renaissance™ was designed for you.
Apply now and we’ll schedule a call to determine whether this is the right next step for your journey.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Everything you share is confidential.
This program is designed for women who require discretion, safety, and professional guidance.