A poetic deep-dive into the aching beauty of intimacy—where longing meets surrender, and guilt gives way to presence.

For anyone seeking real connection, within and without.

This is not a book of techniques. It’s a field guide for the brave. A poetic, soul-mapped inquiry into the places where intimacy gets blocked, buried, or beautifully reborn. With luminous honesty, Steve Slimm walks us through the very human terrain of guilt, grief, surrender, innocence, and longing—not as fixed problems to solve, but as archetypal energies that shape our deepest relationships.

If you’ve ever craved a truer connection—not just with another, but with life itself—Deep Intimacy invites you in. Structured as a poetic meditation in prose, it explores how we lose our capacity for intimacy, and more importantly, how we might recover it. Through soulful reflection and the occasional sly wink of humour, Steve explores themes from early religious guilt to sexual vulnerability, from cosmic wonder to earthy, embodied presence.

This book is an exploration, not a prescription. A gentle provocation. A beckoning toward what’s real.

“This book opened doors I didn’t know were shut. It made me cry in places, laugh in others—and feel, maybe for the first time, that my desire for real intimacy was not only valid, but sacred.” - Steve, Helston