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Loveline with Dr. Chris

Loveline 11-17-20

Loveline with Dr. Chris

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.0803 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dr Chris is a sex and body positive social justice psychotherapist and author. This doctor encourages authenticity, especially with sex and dating, and never shames or attempts to fit people into a neat little box. Radical and accessible, he works to undo misinformation while also pushing us to be better versions of ourselves. He is the Director of Clinical Education for The Sexual Health Alliance (SHA), and frequent co host on “The Doctors” tv show. He previously hosted WE tv’s “Sex Box”and Logo tv’s “Bad Sex”. He is published in various professional journals and top magazines, and has been featured on The Today Show, VICE, CNN, HLN, OWN, Nightline, Dr Drew and in Newsweek, New York Times, Daily Beast, Mens Health, Cosmo, and National Geographic.

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0:00.0

Good evening, everybody. How you doing? A little bit of a check-in. How's your week on? Are you focusing on your mental health? If not, do it now. How you feel? Just take a moment. Pause. Put your hands on your upper chest or on your stomach and just say, how am I feeling? How am I doing? Any changes need to be made? Am I feeling a little anxious? Do I need to work on grounding myself a little bit?

0:25.1

Have I been focusing on self-care? Again, every single day, we're building that in. And again,

0:30.0

don't forget, just to prioritize mental health our own and other people's, we're asking everyone that we bump into, how's your mental health doing? You know, letting them know, safe space,

0:34.0

something important to talk about. More and more, bring that up in every clinical

0:38.3

session I'm doing, especially people that are male identified, because again, in our culture,

0:42.6

very, very, very difficult. A lot of people don't even see it as a trait that is acceptable for men.

0:47.9

When Van Jones, regards to your thoughts on him as a person, when he was crying on the night

0:52.3

of the election, that was stunning for me. I think men crying

0:55.6

in public is such a radical act of self-worth, self-esteem. I think that that is maleness at its best.

1:01.4

Vulnerability is so beautiful to see. And I put that on my IG. I was like, this is what we're

1:05.4

working towards. And those that have really listened and tracked love line I've shared before that

1:09.3

that's my, that was my goal this past year to cry more and a cry more in public just such an honest thing such a

1:14.8

beautiful thing um so uh let's talk about weird habits that are developed in quarantine uh yes

1:22.6

look i have a whole lot and it's become almost just who I am because quarantine's been going on now for almost a year.

1:33.2

And that's a long period of time to really normalize whatever changes.

1:37.7

That's not to have come out as a result of the quarantine, but that's not to say that we can't undo that.

1:42.1

Of course we can.

1:43.3

A lot of that has a flexibility to it. A lot of it are things we want to maybe keep and actually hold on to. I've talked

1:47.4

about my desire to wear nothing but sweatpants moving forward. I've also said how I want servers

1:52.0

to always be wearing masks. I don't ever want people having the capacity to put aerosols on my food

1:57.0

or on my face. You know what I mean? So I've actually valued the ability to kind of

2:01.2

separate out from whatever viruses or bacteria people might have. So I'm down with that. But

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