102. Sex and Widowhood - Part 2: Worries and Fears
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready to become the boss of your sex life? I’m breaking down how to do so by first addressing 3 of the top worries about the act of sex, 6 fears we have about what will happen during sex, and how to handle all of it with grace and compassion for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 102, Sex and Widowhood, Part 2, |
| 0:07.6 | Worries and Fears. Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven |
| 0:15.7 | process to help you work through your grief, to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look |
| 0:23.2 | forward to. |
| 0:24.5 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista |
| 0:30.8 | St. Germain. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey there. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to Sex and Widowhood Part 2. If you haven't listened to Part 1, I would suggest that you stop and go back and listen to last week's episode, catch up on Part 1 where I cover the biggest myths that I hear widowed moms worried about as it relates to sex and then come back and let's dive |
| 0:56.7 | into part two worries and fears. Okay, in this episode, I'm going to cover some of the most |
| 1:04.9 | common worries and fears that widows have about sex. We had quite the discussion about it inside my mom goes on group coaching |
| 1:14.6 | program. And these are also the issues that have come up over and over when I've coached on the |
| 1:20.6 | subject. Now, I'm sure there are probably more worries and fears that I won't cover in this |
| 1:25.7 | episode, but I'm going to cover some of the biggest, |
| 1:28.6 | most frequent worries and fears that I see. And I'm going to break them up into two categories. |
| 1:33.1 | The first is about sex and the act of sex. And the second category is worries and fears we |
| 1:41.8 | have about what happens or what will happen during sex. So first, |
| 1:47.2 | about sex. Number one, I'm worried about STDs and I don't know how to have conversations about it. |
| 1:55.0 | The whole thing feels just terribly awkward. So if this is you, first I would say good for you. Good for you |
| 2:02.9 | for having the foresight to think about STDs. One of my mom goes on members who just actually |
| 2:09.2 | recently graduated is a sex educator and she piped in on our discussion inside the group |
| 2:13.7 | and shared that STDs are pretty common among people who aren't needing birth control |
| 2:18.0 | anymore because they just forget. They forget that infections can be spread through sexual |
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