Episode 59: Karen Gurney
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Dr Karen Gurney is a psychosexologist who has been helping couples overcome sexual problems since 2003. I can see why. She is a reassuring presence and talks in a straightforward way about sex. She is full of wisdom about how to futureproof a long term relationship, as well as how to guide your children, especially as they get into their teens. This is an important chat I feel - as we Brits are famously buttoned up about sex. We talked about how I want to give my children the information and guidance for them to have happy sex lives in the future - and Karen admitted she feels nervous as well as excited about bringing up her own sons with the right messages. We also laughed about how my early attempts at sex education with my eldest son, backfired publicly in the park one day, when he was 4!
For more information and resources, Karen recommends https://www.bishuk.com/ (good for teens) and the book Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg for younger kids.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lysbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, darlings. I'm recording this in the way home from dropping the kids at school, walking past the road. |
| 0:43.3 | So Richard is going to be thrilled with me. He's the one who puts it all together, my husband that is, editing it and he says, |
| 0:52.3 | record your intros and outro somewhere quiet nowhere windy it's like yeah but that's not where the mood takes me sometimes um anyway hope you're all doing all right uh i've been very quiet this week for a couple of reasons. One is kind of practical. I'm going on tour this |
| 1:14.0 | weekend and I wanted to rest and hibernate a little so I'm ready to go for it. We start with four |
| 1:21.9 | shows on the trot which is quite a lot of singing so I want to feel in good health. |
| 1:28.3 | But it's also slightly emotional, I think, because the news has been so awful |
| 1:36.3 | that I haven't really felt like doing much else other than sort of staying very low-key, |
| 1:43.3 | watching things unfold, a fair bit of crying. |
| 1:49.0 | I mean, it's just so heartbreaking. |
| 1:51.0 | And we've really been through it, haven't we, the last few years? |
| 1:56.0 | Anyway, it's made me, for my honest, a little bit peculiar about the fact and the fact to do this, you know, sparkly kitchen disco tour. |
| 2:05.6 | But I take heart from the fact, well firstly, a lot of people bought tickets, so I have to, you know, give them a show. |
| 2:14.6 | And also, I can't think of a single time of my life when music hasn't made me |
| 2:19.8 | feel better even if it's only in the here and now while it's on so I'm just going to seek |
| 2:25.9 | solace in it really and fill my heart up a little so let's do it um and this week's podcast is well wow she's like a really amazing woman |
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