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Dr. Emily Morse

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
826 total appearances

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Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

And it's just a note to say that this is something just couples are going to have to have to learn to communicate about and recognize and first saying like, hey, I'm noticing that our, you know, our sex life is sort of changing and like, what can we, you know, what can we do together? But here's some very specific tips.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

And it's just a note to say that this is something just couples are going to have to have to learn to communicate about and recognize and first saying like, hey, I'm noticing that our, you know, our sex life is sort of changing and like, what can we, you know, what can we do together? But here's some very specific tips.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

The first thing is not expecting that your desire is going to be spontaneous like it was in the beginning of the relationship. So there's different kinds of desire. There's spontaneous and there is responsive. And so we, most of us are stuck in this, like I should be hit over my head.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

The first thing is not expecting that your desire is going to be spontaneous like it was in the beginning of the relationship. So there's different kinds of desire. There's spontaneous and there is responsive. And so we, most of us are stuck in this, like I should be hit over my head.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

The first thing is not expecting that your desire is going to be spontaneous like it was in the beginning of the relationship. So there's different kinds of desire. There's spontaneous and there is responsive. And so we, most of us are stuck in this, like I should be hit over my head.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

I should want to rip my partner's clothes off or they see me in the room and they want it all the time and I don't. So I'm, therefore I'm broken, but I want to normalize responsive desire. So spontaneous, we all know. I see my partner, I'm turned on. I get a certain touch. I see something.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

I should want to rip my partner's clothes off or they see me in the room and they want it all the time and I don't. So I'm, therefore I'm broken, but I want to normalize responsive desire. So spontaneous, we all know. I see my partner, I'm turned on. I get a certain touch. I see something.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

I should want to rip my partner's clothes off or they see me in the room and they want it all the time and I don't. So I'm, therefore I'm broken, but I want to normalize responsive desire. So spontaneous, we all know. I see my partner, I'm turned on. I get a certain touch. I see something.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

Again, a lot of us live in the state of when we are the honeymoon phase of our relationship, when we do have that spontaneous all the time, it's on. That is a state of time, a limited period of time. That's usually about six months, to two years. And that's because all those feel good hormones, you know, it's like any drug, what comes up is going to come down and we might not have that anymore.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

Again, a lot of us live in the state of when we are the honeymoon phase of our relationship, when we do have that spontaneous all the time, it's on. That is a state of time, a limited period of time. That's usually about six months, to two years. And that's because all those feel good hormones, you know, it's like any drug, what comes up is going to come down and we might not have that anymore.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

Again, a lot of us live in the state of when we are the honeymoon phase of our relationship, when we do have that spontaneous all the time, it's on. That is a state of time, a limited period of time. That's usually about six months, to two years. And that's because all those feel good hormones, you know, it's like any drug, what comes up is going to come down and we might not have that anymore.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

So then we have to know the responsive desire is more about knowing when I talked about the self-knowledge pillar, what is going to stoke your desire? It could be so many different things. It could be I had a great date night with my partner. We had a wonderful conversation. The house is clean. I exercised today. I was able to manage my stress. I did some breath work. Or I'm on my cycle.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

So then we have to know the responsive desire is more about knowing when I talked about the self-knowledge pillar, what is going to stoke your desire? It could be so many different things. It could be I had a great date night with my partner. We had a wonderful conversation. The house is clean. I exercised today. I was able to manage my stress. I did some breath work. Or I'm on my cycle.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

So then we have to know the responsive desire is more about knowing when I talked about the self-knowledge pillar, what is going to stoke your desire? It could be so many different things. It could be I had a great date night with my partner. We had a wonderful conversation. The house is clean. I exercised today. I was able to manage my stress. I did some breath work. Or I'm on my cycle.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

Yeah, I'm on my cycle. I ate certain foods. I'm in a mood. I mean, really just kind of normalizing. Like there are certain knowing your body and knowing when you're going to be more in the mood and when you're not. I mean, there have been studies that show that women actually are more aroused in late afternoon. a lot of times sex isn't happening that way.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

Yeah, I'm on my cycle. I ate certain foods. I'm in a mood. I mean, really just kind of normalizing. Like there are certain knowing your body and knowing when you're going to be more in the mood and when you're not. I mean, there have been studies that show that women actually are more aroused in late afternoon. a lot of times sex isn't happening that way.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

Yeah, I'm on my cycle. I ate certain foods. I'm in a mood. I mean, really just kind of normalizing. Like there are certain knowing your body and knowing when you're going to be more in the mood and when you're not. I mean, there have been studies that show that women actually are more aroused in late afternoon. a lot of times sex isn't happening that way.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

And then there's a lot of pressure, especially on women to have sex. And this, again, I don't even, I try not to use genders that much, even when my work, because I found that it's just, it's just like men, women, we all, whatever your gender is, we all experience all these different things. But if, if, For a lot of women, there's like a pressure that I got to be turned on at night.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

And then there's a lot of pressure, especially on women to have sex. And this, again, I don't even, I try not to use genders that much, even when my work, because I found that it's just, it's just like men, women, we all, whatever your gender is, we all experience all these different things. But if, if, For a lot of women, there's like a pressure that I got to be turned on at night.

Healing + Human Potential
How to Break Sexual Shame & Reclaim Your Desire with Sex with Emily | EP 85

And then there's a lot of pressure, especially on women to have sex. And this, again, I don't even, I try not to use genders that much, even when my work, because I found that it's just, it's just like men, women, we all, whatever your gender is, we all experience all these different things. But if, if, For a lot of women, there's like a pressure that I got to be turned on at night.