If We All Long for Intimacy, Why Is It So Hard?

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So many of us long for intimacy — with a partner, with ourselves, with life itself — yet often find ourselves caught in patterns of high stress and overload that create barriers to intimacy and disconnect us from ourselves and others.
Other times, we’re tangled in dogmatic or idealistic ideas about how relationships “should” be, only to find they don’t bring us the closeness we crave.
True intimacy begins with learning to feel what is here — through the body. It’s a practice of turning inward, sensing the subtle movements of emotion, sensation, and thought, and allowing ourselves to meet them with presence.
Before we can open fully to another, we must first cultivate intimacy with ourselves. From this foundation, we bring authenticity and presence into all our relationships — romantic, friendship, and beyond.
This inner connection is rare in today’s fast-paced, constantly shifting world — and yet, it can be learned.
That’s why in my work, I create one-to-one and community spaces where you can soften into yourself, uncover your desires, and cultivate relationships that truly nourish — relationships that feel alive and real, not stagnant or performative.
In that intimate connection with yourself, fear makes space for courage, confusion gives way to clarity, and you begin to trust yourself — and love — again.
Intimacy, Embodiment & Fulfilling Relationships

HI, I’M CORINNE
KONRAD CALDER
Relationship coach, embodiment teacher, and women’s group facilitator.
After a 15 year career in high end corporate event management, I now specializes in helping women transform challenging relationships — with themselves and others — so they can experience the connection, love, and aliveness they long for.
Whether you’re longing to feel emotionally closer to your partner, rebuild trust after years of self-abandonment, or simply reclaim the parts of yourself that have gone quiet… I meet you where you are — and walk with you home.
I support women who are thoughtful and often quietly strong — women who care deeply, hold a lot, and are starting to realise they don’t want to carry it all alone anymore.
My work blends Authentic Relating, Soul-based Coaching, Feminine Embodiment, somatic practices, and parts work — but what matters most is how we hold those tools: with presence, with compassion, and with respect for your pace.
This isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about helping you hear yourself again — and speak from that place.
Swiss-born and fluent in English and German, I’ve spent the past two decades following a heart-led path that’s taken me through multiple countries and countless inner seasons. I now live in Dubai with my husband and our dog, supporting women both locally and globally in becoming deeply rooted in themselves — so they can show up in love and life with clarity, softness, and strength.
This work isn’t just what I offer.
It’s how I live.
And it would be an honour to support you as you remember who you are — and create the kind of relationship that meets you there.
The intersection of psychology and spirituality together with embodiment, personal growth and creative self-expression is dear to my heart.
Over the last 2 decades I had the pleasure of studying with true pioneers in their respective fields – Michaela Boehm & Steve James, Annemiek Van Helsdingen , Chameli Gad Ardagh, Loch Kelly, Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, DONA International, Kimberly Ann Johnson, Sara Avant Stover and Paul Grilley.
Their teachings provided me with a body of work that I draw from, to gently and effectively support women on their journey of self-discovery, transformation and personal growth.
My qualifications in more detail...
- 2025: Certified Intimacy & Attraction Teacher Training with Michaela Boehm and Steve James
- 2025: Level 2 Effortless Mindfulness Training with Loch Kelly
- 2024: Level 1 Effortless Mindfulness Training with Loch Kelly
- 2024: Clean Space Coaching Modality, Weekend Workshop with my Mentor Annemiek Van Helsdingen
- 2024: Level 2, Certified Embodiment Teacher Training with Michaela Boehm and Steve James
- 2023-2024: IFS (Internal Family System Therapy) Introduction Online Circle Course
- 2023: Certified Course in Dance Movement Therapy at LASALLE Continuing Education Programme, Singapore
- 2022: Level 1, Certified Embodiment Teacher Training with Michaela Boehm and Steve James
- 2022-2023: Assisting in the year long Soul-based Coaching certification training
- 2018/2019: Certified year long Soul-based Coaching Training with The Academy of Soul-based Coaching, led by Annemiek Van Helsdingen
- 2018: Birth Into Being Method Training, led by founder Elena Tonetti-Vladirova
- 2018: Assisting at the Awakening Women Inanna 3-day Immersion in Hamburg with my feminine spiritual teacher Chameli Gad
- 2018: Organizing and assisting in the Awakening Women’s Temple Group Facilitator Training in Hong Kong 2018
- 2018: Assisting at the SHE Yoga & Meditation Retreat with Sara Avant Stover in Koh Samui 2018
- 2017: Spinning Babies Workshop in Singapore, led by Ginny Phang
- 2015: Certified Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training at Pure HK, led by Samantha Chan
- 2015: DONA International Birth Doula Training, led by BirthKeepers; Debra Pascali-Bonro, Katherine Bramhall and Robin Lim
- 2014: Certified Women’s Temple Group Leadership Training, led by Chameli Gad
- 2013: Prenatal Yoga One-on-One Training, guided by yogini nomad & post-partum care revolutionary Kimberly Ann Johnson
- 2013: Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, led by Sara Avant Stover
- 2012: Certified Yin Yoga Teacher Training, led by Paul Grilley and his wife, Suzie Grilley
- 2009: Chavutti Thirumal Ayurveda Practitioner, led by Sophie Costes