Episode 179: Talking Sex with Alison Leigh
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends!
In this episode, I talk to licensed psychotherapist and sex advisor, Alison Leigh. Alison specializes in helping people in relationships overcome barriers to happiness and fulfillment, which often involves looking at the sexual relationship. In this interview, we talk about common barriers to intimacy, the impact of stress on relationships, and some strategies that she uses with her clients to encourage intimate connection. It was a good episode and I hope you enjoy it!
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| 0:00.0 | Right and so they say well if I make the time else and then then it's not spontaneous and I said it's not spontaneous now like |
| 0:07.8 | So it doesn't really matter like you guys want to you want the homework or not like Like I feel like they have to work just as hard as I do and they have to make, they have to really want to do it. Because you know what? It's really hard. It's really hard to have a great sex life and a great like intimate relationship life I think. |
| 0:25.3 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:28.9 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:35.2 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also |
| 0:40.4 | respect and recognize your limitations so please use your best judgment. I will never |
| 0:45.3 | be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, |
| 0:50.1 | check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, but, you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:56.0 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 1:04.6 | substitute for professional help. So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. I'm going to be free. All right. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 179. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health |
| 1:35.6 | content for real people just like you. And today I have an interview for you. This is a nice |
| 1:39.6 | interview with Allison Lee. She's a psychotherapist and also a sex advisor so we're talking about the topic of sex today. |
| 1:46.1 | We cover all kinds of cool stuff talking about you know decrease in libido or interest |
| 1:51.3 | mismatches between interest within partners. |
| 1:54.7 | We talk about stress and work and how that relates to a sexual relationship. |
| 1:58.8 | We get into some specifics about some techniques that can be used and also a lot of mental things like all or nothing |
| 2:04.2 | thinking, different traps that we tend to fall into when it comes to intimate romantic relationships. |
| 2:08.9 | So really good stuff here. |
| 2:11.0 | Before we get into the interview, I wanted to remind you that I'm having my five-year |
| 2:14.8 | Duff the Psych celebration all month. |
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