Listening to Desire: Dark Nights, Relationship Myths, and Pleasure-Based Intimacy with LiYana Silver

A transformational coach and author of "Feminine Genius" LiYana Silver discusses how she helps clients—especially women—rebuild self-trust, body connection, and desire after heartbreak or divorce, and explains why many people can’t safely access what they truly want.

She outlines three common relationship myths: the “myth of romance” (partner above all else), the “relationship escalator” (preset steps toward longevity), and the belief that love equals merging and self-erasure, particularly for women. The conversation reframes divorce as not inherently a failure and emphasizes validating devastation before moving through phases of transformation.

LiYana describes couple work as identifying entrenched patterns ro ...