Dr. Jessica Tartaro (she/her) is a cis-gendered, able bodied, second generation Sicilian Jewish Intimacy Coach, Mediator & Connection Facilitator who draws from over 20 years of experience in the healing arts facilitating individuals, couples and groups. Through her one-of-a-kind workshops, Jessica powerfully weaves together the threads of Conscious Intimacy, Authentic Relating, Positive Psychology, Trauma Healing, Improvisational Dance and Mindful Embodiment. Plus, she loves to play. Former Fulbright scholar, Jessica has founded communities across the country dedicated to healing the collective experience of belonging. On the Olympic Peninsula of Washington where she currently lives, Jessica is facing her greatest intimacy challenges yet as a mother to her fierce and fiery toddler, Joya. To stay current on her evolving offerings, inquire about her private coaching and check out her adorable toddler photos, go to www.DrJessicaTartaro.com @doctartaro ---------------------- In this powerful and deeply human conversation, host Aliko Weste sits down with Dr. Jessica Tartarot, an intimacy coach, mediator, connection facilitator, and longtime healing arts practitioner, to explore what it really means to build relationships that can hold conflict, repair, parenting, and belonging. Jessica shares how becoming a mother reshaped everything she thought she knew about intimacy, nervous systems, healing, and the hidden needs we carry from childhood into adulthood. With honesty and humility, she reflects on the impossible pressure modern parents face when they are expected to meet a child’s endless needs without the village that human beings were designed to have. Together, Aliko and Jessica explore generative conflict, relational intelligence, emotional literacy, child nesting, cooperative child rearing, attachment wounds, spirituality, and the loneliness created by modern individualism. The conversation moves from parenting and community care to adult relationships, showing how much of our pain comes from never being taught how to ask for what we need, repair rupture, set boundaries, or stay present when intimacy becomes uncomfortable. Jessica also introduces her evolving work around helping couples and communities move beyond private struggle and into shared support. Through her “We Two” project, she invites couples to tell the truth about relationship challenges, not as a sign of failure, but as a way to normalize struggle, widen the pool of empathy, and remind people that they are not alone. This episode is an invitation to rethink conflict, parenting, partnership, and community as sacred places of growth. It is for anyone who has ever longed for deeper connection, more support, and a more honest way of being human together. Connect with me https://www.instagram.com/theealikomountain/ https://www.instagram.com/doctartaro/
