Reclaiming Desire After Assault - Julie Peters

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Julie explains the steps to recovering desire, passion, and pleasure after her sexual assault. Discuss how being catcalled and sexualized at age 11 informed her value in society, sexual harassment in the workplace, struggles with anorexia and a complex relationship with food, desire vs craving, being sexually assaulted by a trusted friend and how she learned to recovery through mindfulness, therapy, and yoga. Paul and Julie discuss societal issues like the MeToo movement, toxic masculinity, incels, patriarchy stereotypes, and how the media portrays sexuality. Her book is called "Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault" Julie's website is www.jcpeters.ca . You can find her book here: https://amazon.com Support Our Sponsors! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling. To get a free week go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18. This episode is sponsored by the Calm app. For 25% off a premium subscription go to www.Calm.com/mental This episode is sponsored by Parcast's new podcast Horoscope Today!. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts This episodes is sponsored by the RISK! podcast. Find it at www.Risk-Show.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST ______________________ Subscribe via iTunes and leave a review. It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2 ————————————————————————— Spread the word via social media. It costs nothing. Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod -------------------------------------------------------- Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal or Zelle (make payment to [email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try Our Sponsor’s Products/Services --------------------------------------------------- See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 451 with my guest Julie Peters.
0:05.8	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:06.8	This is the metal illness happy hour.
0:08.6	I place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:14.8	past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:18.8	The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:23.2	I'm not a therapist.
0:24.2	It's not a doctor's office.
0:25.8	It's more like a waiting room.
0:27.2	It doesn't suck.
0:28.7	The website for the show and all the social media handles are mental pod.
0:33.9	That would be mental pod.com for the website.
0:36.7	If you haven't been to the website, check it out.
0:39.0	You can browse the forum.
0:41.1	There's a ton of different threads.
0:43.2	You can fill out an anonymous survey.
0:48.3	Maybe your survey will get read on the podcast.
0:52.8	There's about a dozen different ones that you can take on a variety of subjects.
0:59.7	There are ways that you can support the podcast also on the website.
1:06.0	I've been thinking lately I was at my support group meeting the other night and the theme
1:12.5	was feeling like we're not enough.
1:15.6	There are three things that really fuck with me.
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