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Hi, everyone.

Welcome to I Choose Me.

This podcast is all about the choices we make, even as, especially as, our bodies change and realign as we age.

Today we're talking about midlife and menopause, but not the stuff you already know about,

not the stuff we've already talked about, hot flashes and mood swings, but a lot of the stuff

we don't talk about, like desire and pleasure, things that

make us quietly wonder, is something wrong with me? Am I broken? My guest today is Dr. Maria

Sophocles, a gynecologist and sexual medicine specialist who is on a mission to close what she calls the bedroom gap,

or the difference in sexual expectations and capabilities of men and women in mid-life.

Will you get a little uncomfortable?

Perhaps.

Will you have a new way of thinking about your body? Yes, you will. Will you be

confident that you are not broken? Absolutely. I'm thrilled to welcome Dr. Maria Sophocles.

Hello. Hello there. First of all, I love the story of you meeting Gloria Steinem in a coat closet.

I know. And how did that explain to everyone how that encounter made it impossible not to write this book?

Sure. So I guess it was a book that needed to be written because I had been in OBGYN for over 20 years,

and I was watching women age and go into midlife and start having menopause issues and sexual

issues.

And I kept trying to help them one on one.

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