Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.

And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.

Hey, friends, thanks for joining me today.

I had some major barriers to recording this podcast today.

So first of all, I had the hiccups.

And I'm like, I cannot record this podcast with a hiccups.

And then I was like snacking on trail mix.

And I'm like, go darn it, I can't record this podcast snacking on trail mix. So I have to like drop what I'm doing, get rid of my

hiccups, finish my trail mix snack, and then I can come in podcast with you guys. So here I am,

hopefully clear of hiccups and with a nice tummy full of Costco trail mix, which is a smoking deal at

$18. So I'm totally addicted and I got to bring it to work so I don't eat the whole thing.

Today I'm going to talk about this research paper that came out in the journal of, I don't know,

the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.

Very, very cool.

And it's actually an old article.

And the reason why I came across this article is I was just finishing up reading Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Lori Brato, PhD.

She's up at UBC in Vancouver, British Columbia.

And it's an amazing book, basically talking about mindfulness. So everything we've been saying

about like you got to get into your body, you have to be in the now, don't think about the past

or the future, that's not where orgasms lie, a whole entire book about mindfulness

and how when we pay attention to the inner workings of our body, the sensations in our pelvis,

the touch that's happening, the connection with our partner, that's where optimal sex comes

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