Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today I'm so excited to share an interview with you. I had my pelvic floor physical therapist, Dr. Shoshana Lewis, come meet me here in Portland and do this interview with me.

I personally struggled with painful intercourse and vaginismos and lots of other things associated with just the many things that can cause painful intercourse for women.

And it was a real struggle to figure out what was going on and how to fix it.

And I had a life-changing experience working with Dr. Shoshana Lewis, so I really wanted to interview her, and the entire

process of working with her was very emotional, and I will share a lot more in the interview about

how, like, what my challenges were, how the pain started to come up, how I couldn't find solutions, and how Dr. Shoshana Lewis helped me.

Pelvic floor challenges are really, really common for women, not just painful sex, but also other things like leaking, constipation, etc., etc.

Dr. Shoshana Lewis will tell us more about that.

But I also really wanted to have her on because I've had clients open up to me and share

that they struggled with the same thing, that sex was painful, and that it was actually a

barrier to their confidence in dating.

And I totally understand that because I felt like I was broken. I felt like I was not

attractive. I felt like I was not sexy because I was in pain. So I really wanted to share this

with you all in case you struggle with this as well or in case you have a friend that you know

struggles with this because like I said,

it was really hard to find a solution. Before we get into the interview, I also wanted to share

with you my free guide called copy and paste texts for when he's pulling away or acting

flaky. The link for that is going to be in the show notes. And then I also had a special request.

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