Tips on Managing Social Distancing from Someone Who Regularly Participates in Social Distancing - Intimacy in the Time of Corona Series

Since social distancing began, we’ve heard from celebrities and behavioral health providers and know-it all facebook friend about how to manage the emotional impact of isolation.

Why not hear about it from someone with extensive lived experience?

Who has that? Who regularly wears PPE, navigates their environment with high levels of caution for the sake of their safety and keeps their physical distance from other people?

Members of the chronically ill community.

Em and I talk about:

How hard it can be to navigate social distancing

Lessons learned from years of practicing social distancing

How to use a kink paradigm to navigate risk (Risk Aware Consensual Kink) and how it can be applied to all areas of life

How boundaries impact intimacy

What it is like to be non-monogamous in a social distancing world

What the chronically ill community wishes non-chronically ill folks knew, and how many of the adaptations made in the last few weeks would be beneficial in the long term.