Dee Salmon

We don't gatekeep.

We love having new people on the show.

And so we're going to be chatting today about, you know, reconnecting to pleasure and

If anyone has been experiencing burnout or stress or grief, we know that this is something that can impact your sex life and even your desire to want to have sex.

And I think the past couple of years, it's fair to say that the world's been pretty cooked.

Fair to say, yes.

Those have been pretty cooked, you know, whether it's cost of living or what's happening politically or just like burnout, like there's a lot going on, right?

And I think for young people as well, there's a lot of stress about the future and, you know, stability and financial stability and climate change.

And this can impact your sex life.

So that's what we're going to chat about.

So what have you learnt the past couple of years around that?

When it comes to maybe like stress, grief, burnout, just feeling depressed about the state of the world, is it all the same impact on your sex life or do we experience different impacts depending on whether it is grief or stress?

impact on the body your body is shutting down the reward system it's harder to feel joy it's harder to feel pleasure what can that look like for people's sex lives like I know this is individual but from like maybe clients or people you've spoken to or research you've done becoming a sexologist like what are the ways it can show up in your sex life let's talk about potentially stress

I completely relate to the stress thing.

Like as soon as I'm stressed and like at the moment I've had so much going on and I've been waking up at 4 a.m.

every morning just going like, like it's like a huge cortisol spike and it's been happening for the past two weeks and I'm

And yeah, I have noticed how much that's, it's like the last thing I want to do is have sex because my brain is just like, no, I've got a million other things to do.

Like I'm in fight or flight.

Can you go potentially the other way with maybe even grief or feeling like the world is cooked?

Can you potentially become hypersexual as a way to cope?