Dr. Sara NasserZadeh

For many years I could not take the holidays off because this is the season that highlights our most profound personal and relational dilemmas.

In my Substack blog “The Common ground”, this month I am focusing on the main dilemmas that I often hear from my clients, with my thoughts on how you can navigate them. I hope you find this 5 mins read helpful.

Save and share freely, we are all in this together🙌🏼

I hope your December is peaceful and paves the way for a bright and purposeful new year ahead.

Let me know what dilemmas you hear about or personally challenged by. I would love to hear from you✨

https://open.substack.com/pub/thecommonground/p/can-we-enjoy-the-holidays-without?r=3kn2lo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Can We Enjoy the Holidays Without Hurting Each Other? Making it through the season without losing each other

It’s November alteady! I wonder if we are surrounded by people that enrich our lives in meaningful ways or otherwise!

This month in my newsletter (the Common Ground in substack), I am sharing my thoughts about the importance of our communities and offer practical tips as well as a wotksheet to help you with designing your social capital.

Read, share, subscribe, let me know of your dilemmas, questions and what you wish for me to wrote about next ✨

The People Around You Shape the Story You Live Designing Your Social Capital by Choice, Not by Chance

For 11 + years and counting, World Sexual Health Day has brought us together across borders and communities. ✨

Join us in shaping a healthier and more peaceful world. Your involvement makes all the difference.

🙌🏼 learn more and see how you can get involved for next year: https://worlds*xualhealthday-northamerica.com

Global page on IG could be seen here:
*xualhealth

thank you for your thoughtful presence ✨

See you all next year!

Are you watering your relationship or flooding it?

✨Read this month’s newsletter for critical tips on intentional sharing. I hope it serves your coupledom well ( you can apply these tips to all of your relationships)

Are You Watering Your Relationship or Flooding It? The Grounding

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Will you join me?

Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at TEDNext this fall and I would love for you to join me there🙌🏼 the more we share the art and science of thriving relationships, the more people can cultivate it for themselves and, the better the world✨

This isn’t just another event. It’s a space to think differently, feel deeply, and connect meaningfully. You’ll meet visionaries, changemakers, and kindred spirits and I’d love to share this experience with you.

Let’s meet up in person, grow together, and spark new conversations to make the world a better place 🫶🏼

Link here⛓️‍💥: https://conferences.ted.com/tednext2025/speakers?utm_campaign=speakers-network&utm_content=sara-nasserzadeh&utm_medium=social&utm_source=speaker


TED🌹

Join us for the celebration of the World Sexual Health Day, 2025✨ register for free from anywhere in the world to be inspired, educated and elevated by a lineup of worldrenowed keynote speakers. We will talk about the art and science of bodily positivity and neutrality.

✨Learn more and register here: https://worlds*xualhealthday-northamerica.com

🙌🏼Bring your friends, partner, your students, collesgues, the whole community. Everone is welcomed 🩵

September 12, 2025
9am to 2 pm Pacific Time
Virtual
Fully free

Register here: https://worlds*xualhealthday-northamerica.com

No CEs are offered this year but you will gain insights that will not be availbe elsewhere.

Evenings matter!

While many focus on morning routines, what couples do before bed can be just as powerful in shaping a lasting bond.

In this CNBC article, I share two nightly rituals I’ve observed in thriving relationships which I recommend to everyone:

1) Oy and Joy” – a gentle daily check-in to name the burdens and the blessings

2) Intentional physical connection – from breathing back-to-back to a lingering kiss, small acts of touch can keep your bodies aligned and connected beyond you can imagine.

Together with fellow expert Amy Morin, we offer practical insights into how couples can nurture their connection, one evening at a time.

Read the full article here and comment below with your thoughts. I would love to know about other rituals that are out there.

⛓️‍💥 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/the-most-successful-couples-i-know-do-this-before-bed-says-expert.html

Want a stronger relationship? ‘The most successful couples I know’ prioritize this habit every evening, therapist says Successful couples practice gratitude with each other, says psychotherapist Amy Morin.

Charlize Theron is choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She shared her reasoning with Alex Cooper on the popular podcast “Call Her Daddy.” Here is my take on it in an interview with Gili Malinsky at CNBC.

I wonder what your thoughts are. Comment below.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/05/charlize-theron-is-choosing-to-be-single-she-told-call-her-daddy.html

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Charlize Theron is choosing to be single, she told ‘Call Her Daddy’: That can be ‘a sign of strength,’ says relationship expert When Charlize Theron decided to be a parent, she realized she "was not somebody who should be having kids with another person."

Are you holding on to pain or is it holding on to you?

Is pleasure tye other side of pain?

How do you reclaim your identity when pain is no longer present?

Read my thoughts on these questions and much more in this months “The common ground by Dr. Sara” unstack.

Feel free to share with anyone who needs to see this. Going through a journey with pain could be very isolating. 

Don’t forget to subscribe to receive my monthly reflections and teachings directly into your email box.

We all rise together 🫶🏼

https://thecommonground.substack.com/p/from-guarded-to-grounded-healing

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From Guarded to Grounded: Healing After Sexual Pain Navigating the Other Side of Painful s*x: Finding Balance and Purpose Beyond Suffering