How to Talk to a Partner About Taboo Sexual Desires [without Fear or Shame]
How to Talk to a Partner About Taboo Sexual Desires [without Fear or Shame] Talking about sex with your partner isn’t always easy, even without taboo desires. Even when you open up about sex with som ...
How to Identify Shame and Successfully Move Past It
How to Identify Shame and Successfully Move Past It Shame doesn’t always get the “credit” it deserves for being so incredibly damaging. This feeling can make you believe you’re not good enough. It ...
Body Shame and Sexual Dysfunction
Body Shame and Sexual Dysfunction Many of us have experienced body shame at some point in our lives. We can think we're not fit enough, thin enough, big enough, etc. Can these insecurities lead to se ...
Shame and Sexual Dysfunction
Shame and Sexual Dysfunction In our sex therapy work with sexual dysfunctions , we find that shame is not far behind. We are taught that sex should just work. If you love someone and you're attract ...
Traumatic Shame in Living with HIV
Traumatic Shame in Living with HIV Over the past 2 decades, there have been tremendous advancements in the treatment of HIV. Despite this, there is still a lot of shame that people live with when the ...
Shame Reactivity versus Taking Responsibility
Shame Reactivity versus Taking Responsibility Shame and taking responsibility are not opposites. Whenever we have to take responsibility, we are going to be living with some element of shame. In fact ...
Growing Through Shame
Shame is something that we often try to avoid. Walking through a place of such vulnerability is understandably undesirable, because human beings are naturally quite pain aversive. Our aversion to pain ...
Moving Past Shame
Running from shame is understandable. This avoidance can initially help you cope with the discomfort of the pain that underlies it. Facing it head-on is uncomfortable and intimidating. Thus, it seems ...
Revising Your Relationship’s History to Cope with Betrayal
Discovering a betrayal can lead to extreme ways of coping. Finding out that your partner has been keeping secrets, cheating, or having an affair can lead you to cope with anger, fear, anxiety, depress ...
Weight Loss, Health, Mood, and Sexuality
Weight Loss, Health, Mood and Sexuality Updated 10/31/23 People can embrace connective sex at any size. Our weight is often used as an indicator of general health. There are correlations between ex ...