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#141 Healing Sexual Trauma Through Pleasure - with Melissa Fritchle, LMFT

Shameless Sex

Amy Baldwin

Education, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

How does the body internalize sexual trauma and how can we heal it through pleasure? How does this apply sexual pain? And what about kink as a means for working with trauma?  Want to skip to the interview? Fast forward to minute 19.  About our guest: Melissa Fritchle, LMFT is a Holistic Sex Therapist & award-winning Sex Educator with a private practice in Santa Cruz, CA. She is also a Certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher and is working on a second book, The Body as Guru. She is the author of The Conscious Sexual Self Workbook and writes the pleasure activism blog, Transformational Pleasure. Founder & Director of Trauma-Informed Sex Positive Therapy Training, she promotes inclusive sexual health around the world. To learn more visit www.mf-therapy.com Other links: Get 10% off + free shipping with code SHAMELESSSEX on Uberlube AKA our favorite lubricant at uberlube.com Get $5 off while mastering the art of pleasure at OMGyes.com/shameless Get one week of "the Netflix of porn" with code SHAMELESS at adulttime.com Get 15% off all of your sex toys with code SHAMELESSSEX at purepleasureshop.com Want clinically proven science-backed multi-vitamins made from the best ingredients? Go to ritual.com/SHAMELESSSEX and get 10% off during your first 3 months

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