Episode 14: Let's Talk About Sex, Baby!
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, I interview Jessa Zimmerman, a licensed sex therapist and couples' counselor.
Jessa specializes in helping couples who have a good relationship but who are avoiding sex because it's become stressful, negative, disappointing, or pressured.
We had a great chat about whether or not an unfulfilling sex life is reason enough to end a marriage, and how to jumpstart it without it being too fucking awkward.
We also talk about mis-matched libidos, the sexual avoidance cycle, porn and so much more! Needless to say, it's a juicy one!
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About Jessa:
Jessa is a licensed sex therapist and couples' counselor. She specializes in helping couples who have a good relationship but who are avoiding sex because it's become stressful, negative, disappointing, or pressured.
Jessa educates, coaches, and supports people as they go through her 9-phase experiential process that allows them real world practice in changing their relationship and their sex life.
She does this work through in person therapy in her office in Seattle, online therapy for Washington residents, her Better Sex podcast, and her soon to be published book, Sex Without Stress.
Facebook group: www.seattlecouplescounselor.com/community
Mentioned in this episode:
David Schnarch – Passionate Marriage
Esther Perel – Mating in Captivity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have real, honest, smart, |
| 0:11.6 | and sometimes even hilarious conversations about co-parenting, separation, and divorce, and all that goes along with that. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, certified |
| 0:22.0 | life and relationship coach, and happily divorced mom who helps women decide if they should |
| 0:26.8 | stay in or leave their marriages and then guides them through the process one step at a time. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey everyone, welcome back. Since it's almost Father's Day, I wanted to say a few things |
| 0:40.4 | to the men who listen to my podcast. First of all, happy Father's Day. Secondly, I want to say |
| 0:47.3 | welcome. Truly, thank you for listening. Thank you for doing the work to dig deeper into your |
| 0:53.2 | relationships and your marriages and most importantly |
| 0:56.3 | yourselves. Thank you for your emails and your private messages on Instagram and Facebook. |
| 1:02.4 | I hear you. I see you and you belong here too. The truth is that I tend to speak more to women |
| 1:08.7 | because, well, I am a woman, and also because |
| 1:12.1 | overwhelmingly, women tend to consume personal development more than men do. So from a marketing |
| 1:17.5 | perspective, it just makes sense to be perfectly blunt about it. But that doesn't mean that |
| 1:23.3 | you don't belong here. And it doesn't mean that I won't work with you, by the way. In fact, if you're a man |
| 1:29.3 | who is hell-bent on trying to save his marriage or get through the divorce process as smoothly as |
| 1:33.9 | possible, if any of my messaging resonates with you and you want to work with me, I say hell yeah. |
| 1:41.2 | Seriously, if there's one thing I could wish on the world, it would be for more men to show up in this space and to be welcomed here. |
| 1:49.5 | In the coming weeks, I'll be putting together a page on my website for men, so stay tuned for that. |
| 1:55.1 | And in the meantime, if you want to talk to me about coaching, get in touch with me via my website's contact page. |
| 2:01.2 | You can find a link to that in the footer of my site, Kateanthony.com, and we will set up a time |
| 2:06.0 | to chat. Another great resource for this, by the way, for men, is my friend and colleague |
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