FOUNDATIONS OF INTIMACY: A SELF-PACED COUPLES EXPERIENCE is the starting point for couples who want to rebuild connection from the ground up.
Designed for partners feeling disconnected, stuck in repetitive conflict, navigating desire differences, or simply wanting a stronger relational foundation, this course focuses on the core pillars that make intimacy sustainable — emotional safety, communication, trust, and physical connection.
Through eight structured, self-paced modules, Board-Certified Sex Therapist and Relationship Expert Meg Palubicki guides you through a clinically grounded framework that blends attachment science, nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, and practical relationship tools. You’ll learn how to identify unhealthy relational patterns, interrupt reactive cycles, rebuild trust through consistency, reduce pressure around physical intimacy, and create meaningful rituals that strengthen connection over time.
Foundations of Intimacy is not about quick fixes or surface-level advice. It is about understanding how intimacy actually works — emotionally, physically, and neurologically — so you can rebuild your relationship with intention and clarity.
This program is ideal for couples at any stage who are ready to move from frustration to awareness, from reactivity to responsiveness, and from distance to deeper connection.
What's Included
8 Self-paced video modules
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In-depth, guided video lessons (20–30 minutes each) designed to walk you step-by-step through the core pillars of intimacy.
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Each module builds intentionally — from emotional safety and attachment awareness to communication, trust, physical connection, and long-term relational resilience.
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Move through them in order for a structured experience, or revisit specific lessons as your relationship evolves.
Printable & Fillable Couples Workbook
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40+ pages of structured exercises, reflection prompts, relationship mapping tools, and guided conversation frameworks.
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This workbook moves you beyond insight and into intentional action.
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Inside, you’ll complete your Intimacy Blueprint, identify recurring relational cycles, map your communication patterns, rebuild trust step-by-step, and create practical shifts you can implement immediately.
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Awareness becomes application. Application becomes change.
Foundational Relationship Tools
Practical, repeatable tools designed to strengthen emotional and physical connection:
• Intimacy Blueprint Assessment
• Relationship Cycle Mapping Guide
• Weekly Connection Meeting Framework
• Trust Rebuilding Roadmap
• 7-Day Physical Reset Plan
• 30-Day Reconnection Blueprint
These tools are built to reduce reactivity, increase safety, and create consistent closeness — without pressure or overwhelm.
lifetime access
Revisit modules, exercises, and tools whenever your relationship needs recalibration.
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Return during busy seasons.
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Return after conflict.
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Return during life transitions.
Intimacy is not built once — it is maintained intentionally.
You’ll always have access to the structure that helps you rebuild it.
Meet Your Instructor
I’m Meg Palubicki, Board-Certified Sex Therapist, Relationship Counselor, and author of Marriage on Fire. For over a decade, I’ve guided individuals and couples through the real, unfiltered challenges of intimacy, communication, trust, and desire, blending clinical expertise with grounded honesty and practical tools that create lasting change.
As the founder of Intimate Roots, my work centers on one core belief: intimacy isn’t something you “hope” stays strong. It’s something you intentionally build and maintain.
Foundations of Intimacy was created to help you understand how connection actually works, emotionally, physically, and neurologically, so you can rebuild closeness with clarity and confidence. This isn’t about quick fixes or surface-level advice. It’s about giving you a structured framework that helps you move from reactivity to responsiveness, from distance to safety, and from confusion to intentional connection.
If you’re willing to show up with honesty and consistency, the foundation you build here can change everything.
Foundations of Intimacy helps you rebuild connection from the inside out — where emotional safety, clear communication, and intentional closeness create the conditions intimacy needs to thrive.
This is about:
Feeling safe being fully known by your partner.
Understanding your emotional and relational patterns instead of reacting from them.
Building a relationship that supports connection, stability, and lasting closeness — not distance and disconnection.
Who's this for?
Couples who...
Couples who have love and commitment, but feel emotionally distant, stuck in repetitive conflict, or unsure how to rebuild closeness.
You don’t want to end the relationship.
You want to understand it, and strengthen it.
Individuals
Individuals who want to understand their relational patterns, attachment style, and emotional responses before or within partnership.
If you want to break old cycles, communicate more clearly, and show up differently in love, this work starts with you.
Long Term partners
Long-term relationships navigating stress, parenting, routine, resentment, life transitions, or desire shifts.
You don’t need fireworks.
You need structure, safety, and sustainable connection.
growth-oriented couples
People who want emotional safety, honest communication, and physical closeness, without pressure, shame, or performance.
You value stability and depth.
You want a relationship that feels grounded, responsive, and intentionally connected.
Marriage on Fire isn't your typical relationship advice book filled with tired "date night" cliches. It's a raw, witty and science-backed guide for couples who refuse to settle for lukewarm love.
Somewhere between carpool schedules, laundry piles, and Netflix binges, passion has a way of slipping quietly into the background. Maybe you're feeling more like roommates than lovers. Maybe the spark is still there, but buried under routine. Either way, you're not broken, you're normal.
But normal doesn't have to mean boring.
Meg Palubicki takes you beyond shallow tips and into the messy, hilarious, and deeply human truths of sustaining real intimacy. With research, humor, and unflinching honesty, she shows you how to fan the flames of desire, rebuild connection, and reignite the kind of passion that leaves you laughing, gasping, and maybe making your neighbors suspicious.
Your marriage doesn't need a spark - it needs fire.