#36 How Experiential Sex Coaching Can Revolutionize Your Sex Life & Relationship aka Somatica with Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman

The Bad Girls Bible - Sex, Relationships, Dating, Love & Marriage Advice

Sean Jameson

Health & Fitness, Sexuality

3.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast we are joined by Danielle Harel, Ph.D and Celeste Hirschman. They are the cofounders of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching.

Danielle Harel received her Ph.D. and Doctorate degree in Human Sexuality from The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. She has a graduate degree in Clinical Social Work and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Educational Counseling. Celeste Hirschman received her Master’s Degree in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University and her Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

In their teaching, Danielle and Celeste connect with unconditional love, erotic energy, and presence to help their students and clients deepen their insight on self-awareness. They’ve also coauthored the books Making Love Real and Cockfidence, and this episode they share more about the importance of vulnerability and empathy in relationships, and how to be more mindful in your sex life. We also dive into ways to work through shame and fully embrace your sexual desires and fantasies without feeling judged. For an incredibly insightful conversation, be sure to tune in to today’s episode!

Key Points From This Episode

The story of how Danielle and Celeste met, and founded the Somatic Institute.
Somatica: an experiential approach to sexuality and relationships.
Importance of vulnerability for having a good sex life.
Most common reasons why we often struggle to be vulnerable with our partners.
How mindfulness plays a role in having better sex.
Advice for couples who want to develop mindfulness.
Learning to have embodied empathy when it comes to your relationship.
Understanding how to process shame and embrace your sexuality.
Key elements of a healthy relationship: attachment and individuation.

Tweetables

“The more that we can be vulnerable about our deepest desires and longings, the more that we can give each other the most hot, fulfilling sex.” — Celeste Hirschman [0:08:32]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode

Danielle Harel — https://www.celesteanddanielle.com/about-danielle/

Celeste Hirschman — https://www.celesteanddanielle.com/about-celeste/

Website — https://www.celesteanddanielle.com/

Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching — https://www.somaticainstitute.com/

Making Love Real — https://www.amazon.com/Making-Love-Real-Intelligent-Intimacy/dp/0692525483

Cockfidence — https://www.amazon.com/Cockfidence-Definitive-Guide-Being-Driving-ebook/dp/B004SV2DKC

Transcript

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0:00.0	He starts talking about this fantasy of like being surrounded by this group of amazons and he's like kind of tied to a table and they have knives and forks and they're ready to eat him alive and I think his wife was a little wide-eyed at first when she heard his
0:15.2	fantasy but again we had created a lot of safety and told her you know she doesn't have to do anything
0:19.5	she doesn't want to do and so once we got out more the idea that you know there's a lot of different ways to play out
0:26.7	of fantasy and it doesn't have to be reality. This is the Bad Girls Bible Podcast. I'm your host Sean Jameson and this is the place where
0:40.5	I interview experts and professionals and everyone in between to teach you how to dramatically improve your relationships and have more enjoyable sex more often.
0:50.0	And by the way, if you want to learn my most important sex tips and techniques that will bring you and your partner back arching, spine tingling, toe curling orgasms that will keep them coming back for more, you will find them in my discreet and private newsletter just go to
1:04.8	bad girls Bible.com slash newsletter enter your name and email address and I will
1:09.1	send these sex tips straight to your inbox. Today I'm talking to Danielle Harrell, PhD, and Celeste Hershman,
1:17.0	MA. They are the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and
1:22.0	relationship coaching and in their teaching they connect with
1:25.4	unconditional love, erotic energy and presence to help their students and clients deepen
1:31.5	their insight and self-awareness. They've also co-authored the books Making Love and Cockfidence.
1:37.0	Danielle Celeste thanks so much for coming on the Bad Girls Bible podcast.
1:42.0	Thank you so much for having us.
1:44.0	We're very excited to join you here.
1:46.0	So I'd love to start off maybe with your background,
1:50.0	how you guys mesh, and then how you both came to found the Somatica Institute if that's okay?
1:57.0	Absolutely. So this is last I started off very interested in human
2:01.7	sexuality from a young age and I kind of knew that it was something that I wanted to do so I went through my master's program and it was very research oriented and you know a lot of good information about sort of sexuality
2:14.1	politics all of those kinds of things but we didn't really talk about sex so I kind of
2:17.7	felt there was something missing there and I started to go for more experiential
2:21.8	trainings and ended up in this certification training for
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