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Lyn talks to Dr. Liat Yakir, author of the book "A Brief History of Love," which includes the biology of love, as well as the three stages of love - attraction, infatuation, and attachment - plus the role hormones play at each stage, such as testosterone, oestrogen, dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin.

Dr Yakir looks at the challenges we face in long-term relationships, the importance of maintaining high oxytocin levels, and provides facinating biological insights on how to sustain a healthy relationship. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Love can be divided into three stages - attraction, infatuation, and attachment, each affected by different hormones and emotions.
• To sustain a healthy relationship, focus on activities that elevate oxytocin levels such as hugging, kissing, caressing, dancing, and sharing burdens.
• Shift the focus from penetration to overall intimacy, including touch, eye contact, and skin-to-skin contact, to enhance sexual satisfaction in long-term relationships.
• Learning to resolve differences & conflicts efficiently and reconciling within one and a half hours after a disagreement leads to a more stable and fulfilling, long term relationship.
• Embrace authenticity in relationships, appreciate each other's traits, and prioritise self-love to attract a partner who complements rather than completes you.

BEST MOMENTS

"We need to divide love into three stages... attraction, infatuation, and attachment. In every stage, we have different hormones at play in our brain and our body."

"We name 'love' as only the stage that we become crazy about the person or about love, not even about the person, but about the feeling of being in love."

"We need to understand that this is part of nature, this is part of our biology. We can outsmart it and we can win, but we have to understand that it will take effort."

"We need to change how we think about sex... It's not about the number of penetrations but about the times we are sexual with each other, about the 'intimacy' rather than the actual penetration."

"It isn't about looking for somebody to complete you. It's about feeling complete within yourself and then attracting a partner that's going to complement you, not complete you."

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr. Liat Yakir - Biologist, Author, Lecturer & Happiness Consultant

Dr. Yakir is a biologist, author, and lecturer in the fields of the biology of emotions and human behaviour. She has a Ph.D. in genetics and an M.Sc. in hormone research from the Weizmann Institute of Science. She also has a B.Sc. degree in life sciences from Tel Aviv University.

Her extensive training in biology, combined with her ability to make scientific knowledge accessible to various audiences, made Dr. Yakir one of the most sought-after lecturers in Israel and in other countries.

Her first book, ‘A Brief History of Love,’ about the biology of romantic love, was published recently by Watkins Publishing and is a best-seller in Israel.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_liatyakir/
Website: https://en.liatyakir.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Lyn Smith – (The Queen of HEARTS) – Love, Dating & Relationship Expert

Lyn’s personal story is a very inspirational and harrowing one of how she went from having unhealthy and unfulfilling relationships with men (on the back of several serious traumatic sexual assaults in her teens) to now being in a soul fulfilling relationship which makes her feel alive, is full of passion and gives her inner peace.

She has a proven track record as a Love Solutions - Relationship Expert / Trainer / Inspirational Speaker and Best-Selling Author based upon her own vast personal research, experiential learning and training with the world’s leading industry experts.

Understanding the polarisation of masculine & feminine energy resulted in her creating massive attraction and a passionate, intimate, fulfilling relationship – that inspired her to design & present her own course programmes to share these break-through relationship techniques with women across the globe.

HEARTS Entwined is a world-class service based on care and understanding, which is committed to providing step-by-step high-value love, dating and relationship solutions.

Lyn makes a difference by helping you make a difference; she has a vision of contributing back on a global scale – to create a lasting legacy of safety, dignity and opportunity for children and women who have survived rape, abuse and severe trauma as a result of war crimes and sex trafficking – through the setting up of worldwide – ‘you can heal your life’ centres.

CONTACT METHOD

lyn@hearts-entwined.com