Releasing Shame around Sexual Health with Dr. Jolene Brighten | Ep 254
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.9 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
From reproduction to physical well-being, pleasure, and partner connection, sex is a fundamental part of life–and yet, our society is so uncomfortable with the topic that productive conversations about sex are rare. As a result, many people (particularly women) end up with shame and confusion about their bodies, and questions about what’s “normal” go unasked or unanswered.
Dr. Jolene Brighten’s work answers these questions. Dr. Jolene is an award-winning board-certified naturopathic endocrinologist, hormone expert, and author of the book Is This Normal. In this episode, Erin and Dr. Jolene discuss the origins of shame around sex and pleasure in our culture, answer common questions about odors, discharges, and pain, and explore the orgasm gap and what women can do both physically and with mindset to increase their experiences of pleasure.
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Timestamps:
(6:18) Why is there so much shame around sex?
(19:49) Odors and discharges explained
(23:45) The “orgasm gap” and the purpose of orgasms
(35:38) How to explore pleasure around sex
(38:00) Impact of cyclical hormones on female pleasure
(48:13) Virginity as a societal construct
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Dr. Jolene Brighten is a hormone expert, nutrition scientist, and thought leader in women’s medicine. She is board certified in naturopathic endocrinology and trained in clinical sexology.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm an integrative and |
| 0:07.2 | functional medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in well over a decade of clinical experience. |
| 0:13.0 | I work with women all over the world through my online programs. And I'm also the founder of the |
| 0:18.0 | Functional Nutrition Academy, a school in practitioner mentorship |
| 0:21.7 | where we help other clinicians level up with functional medicine methodologies. I've got a bone |
| 0:27.6 | to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model that are both systematically |
| 0:32.4 | failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what this show's all about. |
| 0:39.3 | Please keep in mind, this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never |
| 0:44.0 | be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear |
| 0:48.4 | today, I would love for you to subscribe to the show, leave a review in iTunes, share with |
| 0:52.9 | a friend, and keep coming back for more. |
| 0:55.3 | Now give me the mic so I can take it away. |
| 1:01.1 | Hello, friends. |
| 1:02.1 | Today I have Dr. Jolene Brighton back on the show. |
| 1:05.6 | She was first on the podcast in 2019, where she talked about her first book, Beyond the Pill. And now she has |
| 1:13.1 | another book baby called Is This Normal, which is an absolute must buy. It is the book that I |
| 1:19.5 | wish I had when I was 13 years old and then like 15 years old and then like 20 years old and so on |
| 1:25.2 | and so forth. She really unpacked some pretty uncomfortable conversations and really gives you |
| 1:31.8 | super candid, straightforward advice on how to interface with your body. |
| 1:38.3 | I'm such a fan of Dr. Brighton's work, not just of her research, but her willingness to be |
| 1:43.6 | an advocate in a voice piece and have these |
| 1:47.0 | conversations that not really everybody wants to have, but we should be having. Dr. Brighton is such a |
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