How Embodied Practices May Help You Navigate Daily Stress with Dr. Saida Desilets
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, Dr. Carrie Jones sits down with Dr. Saida Desilets, a thought leader, educator, and pioneer in women's psychosexual health. You'll hear them discuss: 1. Why 40-70% of women struggle with low libido 2. The role of nervous system regulation in women's wellness 3. Why finding pleasure in life helps downregulate an overly stressed system 4. Simple daily practices to reclaim sensuality and pleasure to reduce stress 5. Why beauty and joy are essential nutrients for wellbeing Dr. Saida Desilets is a leading authority on embodied psychosexuality and women's wellness. She developed her approach after noticing that traditional sex therapy often didn't produce positive results. Through her work with thousands of women globally, she helps them reconnect with their bodies and support women in reconnecting with their bodies and rediscovering a sense of sensuality and pleasure. Dr. Desilets is the author of "Emergence of the Sensual Woman" and offers programs through her platform, Dare Your Desire.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | So let's first have a look at how, in a very basic way, the nervous system, it will pick up like owies. |
| 0:10.8 | So pain. |
| 0:11.8 | Right. |
| 0:12.2 | But it also, that same nervous system can translate sensation as yum, like a good massage or a really nice smell or a beautiful taste of your favorite beverage or something. |
| 0:24.3 | Anything in your life that induces like that yummy feeling, that's your nervous system tracking |
| 0:30.9 | pleasure. |
| 0:31.8 | So I call that the pleasure pathway, the pleasure storyline. |
| 0:35.4 | Because of our society is a little bit addicted to fear and pain |
| 0:39.2 | and catastrophe and also the way the nervous system is geared is we pay more attention to the |
| 0:46.3 | negative, then it takes a little bit of effort to condition the nervous system to actually be |
| 0:52.8 | aware of the things that feel good. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello, hello. I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to bring on Dr. Seda-desi-Lay, |
| 1:03.4 | a thought leader, educator, and quite honestly, pioneer in women's psychosexual health. |
| 1:09.2 | You see, the concept of low libido comes up a lot in patient |
| 1:12.7 | care. In fact, research suggests that some 40 to 70 percent of women alone struggle with it. |
| 1:19.6 | And there are a lot of reasons for low libido. However, safety is one of them. And when it comes |
| 1:25.4 | to stress and your stress response, your ability to |
| 1:28.6 | feel safe and connected within your own environment is honestly of the utmost important to your nervous |
| 1:33.9 | system. And it's also important to feel safe and connected within your own body, not just within |
| 1:41.0 | the environment. And that can include your stress level. |
| 1:52.6 | A 2023 survey by the American Psychological Association said that 27% of women reported that their stress levels were between an eight, nine, or ten on a ten-point scale. |
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