218: Stress and Sex

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Nothing more sexy than talking about stress! How we perceive stress is how it impacts our body and which makes it inseparable from sex. Connection with another is the fastest way to relieve stress. George leads us in a discussion about how to change distress into eustress by changing our mindset about seeing stress as a challenge and reaching out to a partner and fight problems together. Drawing from his writing in Sacred Stress, George helps Laurie think about a couple who look at the same moment - an erotic moment in two different ways - one as eustress (highly exciting) and the other sees it as distress (highly anxiety-producing.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	All right, Lori, nothing more sexy than talking about sex and stress.
0:07.0	Welcome to Four Play Radio, couples in sex therapy.
0:12.0	I'm Lori Watson, your sex therapist. to Four Play Radio, Couples and Sex Therapy.
0:12.6	I'm Lori Watson, your sex therapist.
0:15.1	And I'm George Fallon, a couples therapist.
0:17.5	And we are passionate about talking about sex
0:20.3	and helping you develop a way to talk to each other.
0:23.0	Our mission is to help our audience develop a healthier relationship to sex
0:28.0	that integrates the mind, the heart, and the body.
0:32.0	So where do we want to start with this one? What a big time.
0:36.0	I want to talk about sexy stress.
0:38.0	Sexy stress that's doing it for you. Stress is bad, right? Stress kills us.
0:43.0	That's a great starting point. What is our common assumptions about sex?
0:47.0	About stress.
0:48.0	About sex stress. They're all blurring together in my head.
0:52.0	Trying to get serious here for a second, Laurie.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.0	I think the research is starting to become abundantly clear
0:59.0	that how you perceive stress in your life is how it physically lands. So most of us report being stressed out. We have way too much stress in our lives.
1:11.0	The bad news about that is if that's what you believe, guess what?
1:15.0	Your body is feeling super stressed out.
1:18.3	So it's kind of this bind, right?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cloud10, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Cloud10 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.