Bonus Episode: BEATING BURNOUT with Emily Nagoski Connects Sex and Stress

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A bonus episode from Boston Globe podcast Say More with Shirley Leung.

Sex educator Emily Nagoski didn’t set out to be an expert on stress. But it turns out, stress is affecting peoples’ sex lives, big time. After helping her sister Amelia through two life-threatening burnout episodes, the two got together to write a book about the science of stress and how it leads to burnout. For them, the journey to understanding stress became a deeper quest for sisterhood and meaning. Emily talks to Shirley about completing the stress cycle, the problem with self-care, and the connections between stress, sleep, and orgasm. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Meredith. Today I give you a bonus episode of a podcast that isn't
0:05.2	mine. It's Say More hosted by my colleague Shirley Leung, a wonderful Boston Globe
0:11.0	columnist who loves deep conversation.
0:14.5	I wanted to share this particular episode because it's an interview with sex educator Emily
0:19.0	Nagowski who wound up co-writing a book with her sister about stress and burnout and how it affects all parts of our lives.
0:27.0	We do a lot of talk about self-care on love letters,
0:30.0	and I thought you'd enjoy this take from Shirley and Emily about what it can really mean.
0:35.0	Enjoy and we'll be back soon.
0:38.0	Welcome to Say More from Boston Globe opinion.
0:46.6	This is part four of our new series Say More on Beating Burnout.
0:51.4	I'm Shirley Leung. On the last show we talked to Krista Tibbitt
0:56.2	about finding quiet in modern life. Today I'm talking to someone who found the topic of burnout by accident. You could say it found
1:06.0	her. Emily Nagowski started as an expert on sex, teaching and writing books to help women feel better in their bodies.
1:15.0	Her first book was called Come As You Are.
1:18.0	And when it came out, sex wasn't what people wanted to talk about.
1:23.0	When that book came out, I was traveling all over talking to anyone who would listen about the science of women's sexual well-being.
1:29.0	And over and over at the end of my talk, people would come up to me and be like yeah all that
1:33.8	stuff about sex is great that's great thank you for that science but you know
1:36.9	the chapter that changed everything for me was that one chapter about stress
1:40.4	and emotion processing.
1:43.0	Burnout, it seemed, was rampant in American society, especially among women.
1:48.9	Emily realized her own sister, Emilia, was a perfect example of what was affecting so many people.
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