Frog and Scorpion in the Bedroom

Enter the Bedroom...

This second book in the Frog and Scorpion SIT® series explores emotional intimacy, vulnerability and unconscious relationship patterns. Readers take a hero’s / heroine’s journey into the hidden dynamics beneath relationships, including: unspoken needs, fear and desire, power and control, emotional wounds and defences.

Who Is This Book For?

  • Any person wishing to improve romantic relationships
  • Therapists, health or life coaches & business entrepreneurs
  • Individuals seeking personal and professional transformation  
  • Professionals looking to enhance healing, leadership or self-mastery

What’s Inside the Book?

Understand how SIT Shadow Work™ reveals hidden motivations, improves communication, and enhances decision-making skills in all relationships.

The Frog and Scorpion Metaphor

The Frog and Scorpion metaphor captures the tension between trust and self-protection in relationships, making it especially relevant to bedroom and intimacy issues.

  • The Frog represents vulnerability, openness and the desire for connection. In intimacy, the frog reflects the part of a person willing to trust, give love, and share emotional closeness.

  • The Scorpion represents fear, self-protection and the impulse to sting or withdraw. In the bedroom, it can appear as defensiveness, emotional withholding, control, or fear of being hurt.

In relationships, these two tendencies often play out as a cycle:

  • One partner (the frog) wants closeness and trust

  • The other partner (or the same person, at times) reacts like the scorpion—pulling away, creating tension or unintentionally sabotaging connection

The metaphor helps identify patterns without blame: it’s not about “bad” behaviour, but about unconscious responses shaped by fear, past wounds and attachment needs.