Hello and welcome to the Get Your Glow Back podcast, a wellness podcast to help you get your glowback.

I'm joined today by Kate Moyle, a psychosexual and relationship therapist who is passionately working to help people understand themselves and create the sex lives they want. In this episode, we cover

lots of topics from mindful sex to mixing it up in the bedroom and communicating our desires

to our partners. Kate does such an amazing job of demystifying so many things we are nervous to talk

about and I learnt so much from this chat with her,

and I can't wait to share it with you. So I know where you're all here. Let's talk about sex.

Welcome Kate to the podcast. Hi. How you doing? Kate, you are a psychosexual and relationship therapist.

Now, that is a job that I didn't get told about at school,

so I would love to know how you got into that. Yeah, so for me, I always knew how to be some kind

of therapist. I just wasn't sure exactly what type, and I was kind of narrowing it down from there,

and then I wrote a dissertation on sexual partners, and it all just kind of clicked into place for me, and it went from there. then I wrote a dissertation on sexual partners and it all just kind of clicked into place

for me and it went from there. But I studied psychology and then I trained firstly as a

psychosexual therapist and then a relationship therapist which kind of tied in all of the work

that I do around sex and relationships together. Amazing. And I feel like sex is often a topic that can bring up

shame or embarrassment. There's a lot of emotional connection to it. I thought we talked through

some different areas of sex so that we can feel much more confident and be enjoying it to the

max. So communication is a huge part of sex and I think it definitely

makes you feel more empowered. But if you don't feel confident in communicating what you want

or knowing what you want, where would you start? Yeah, so there's a phrase that we use as

psychosexual therapists, which is that communication is lubrication.

And there is just so much truth in that. And I think if you ever read articles about sex, blogs, podcasts, TED Talks, watch sex on the couch that we were talking about earlier, the thing that you'll notice everybody comes back to time and time again is

communication. And it's because if we can't tell our partners what we want, what we need, what

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