506: Shifting from Protection to Pleasure

Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we are discussing how to shift from protection to pleasure. George and Laurie dive deep on what couples need to do to regain safety and repair so they can begin to tap into their erotic excitement. Pursuers and withdrawers will be able to identify their fears that create emotional and sexual blocks and what they need to share to their partner. This helps the relationship heal and repair old wounds that keep the cycle stuck and active. When couples do this they can begin to shift to more pleasure focused connection. Safety and reassurance will lead partners to excitement and exploration. Great lovers repair their fears together and use that new, safer energy to explore. Stay current on all our upcoming events at foreplayrst.com Keep it hot y'all! Please check out this episode's sponsor (and help the pod!): Uberlube.com -- Laurie's favorite lube for the last 25 years! Use the code 'foreplay' and get 10% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up? I'm Delaney Fisher, host of the Self-Helpless podcast where science, spirituality, and sustainability are brunch buddies. Each week, I explore the cutting edge of personal growth with leading specialists who share paradigm shifting insights. Come hang out with us. You can subscribe to Self-Halpless wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.6	Woo! The world is on fire. Let's watch a reality TV show and pretend it's not happening. That's been my motto for all of 2025.
0:25.3	Hello, my name is Emily, and I am the host of She's Speaking with Emily Hanks, and I talk about the TV shows that I watch to not feel the pain.
0:35.8	Just kidding. I'm not. If you would like to disconnect and focus on petty,
0:41.5	pointless drama, come check out my podcast. Available everywhere you listen.
0:47.6	The following content is not suitable for children. Okay, George, sex, you know, it's supposed to
0:53.1	feel good. It's supposed to connect us, but for so many
0:56.6	couples, it's just this place of tension, and we've been rejected or disappointed, and we really
1:02.9	want people to see that they can heal their sexual hurts, but also find their way back to an erotic
1:09.2	connection.
1:10.0	And that's what we're going to talk about
1:11.1	today is how do you heal your sex life? How do you repair? And then how do you make it feel
1:16.0	passionate and safe again? Love it. Okay. Welcome to Fork Play Sex Therapy. I'm Dr. Lori
1:25.3	Watson, your sex therapist. And I'm George Fallow, your couples therapist.
1:29.3	We are here to talk about sex. Our mission is to help couples talk about sex in ways that
1:35.5	incorporate their body, their mind, and their hearts. And we have a little bit of fun doing it, right,
1:41.3	G? Listen, and let's change some relationships.
1:44.9	So again, we want to invite you to our women's retreat.
1:48.8	Obviously, not we, me and George, but me and Dr. Rebecca Georgison,
1:52.8	are teaching in Salt Lake City September 6th and 7th.
1:56.5	Please sign up and come to our website and look for information about that and george you're doing
2:04.3	something for therapists which is really exciting in arkansas yep svee lab september 9th and 11th
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