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Hello and welcome to Anatomy of Sex. I'm your host, Melanie Studley.

What's up guys? My name is Seth Studley. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. Today, you do not want to miss the conversation. Tell them why, Mel.

We're talking with intimacy, relationship, and dating expert, Atlanta Pratt about sexual energy. And you guys, it is the most amazing conversation.

You're going to love it to bits and pieces. So, let's dive right in. Let's go.

We are so glad to have you back on our show. You have the best energy ever. So, why don't you tell people who you are if they didn't hear previous episodes and give us a little bio.

Thank you. So, Atlanta, Atlanta Pratt, intimacy expert. Really what I'm about is people that have suffered heartbreak, whether they're in a relationship or outside of a relationship.

How do we heal that so you can be your most unapologetic self and totally at peace with yourself on the inside, the wobbly and the magnificent. So, you're just free.

And of course, that makes for a lot of fun in the bedroom, but it also makes us better as parents, makes us better with relationships with our body, even intimacy with money, like his money, best friend, or is like, where have you been lately?

Right? So, there's this idea of intimacy really spans your entire existence. And so, I like to start at the core, our core fundamental relationship with ourselves.

I love that. That gives me a question like right out of the gate. What do you think blocks most people from leaning into and fully kind of embracing intimacy?

Yeah. Well, they like me for several decades. You go inside and you have this feeling of sadness, shame, fear, anger, and you're like hell now. And you hit your little you with a two by four and shove them in the closet.

And you stuff away, truth, you stuff away the opportunity for compassion empathy, you stuff away the ability to take, you know, something where you felt powerless into powerful or ashamed into free self expression or betrayed into forgiveness.

All of our growth comes from leaning in, feeling, face it to feel it, integrate it. And now we're better. We can't get rid of all this energy, although we think we can, you know, more time on Facebook, another glass of wine, and you know, whatever, it doesn't work.

Right.

And what it was, it's persistent. It grows worse over time until clients come to me and their marriages on the brink, or they've had, you know, a hundred first dates, or they can't orgasm and they fake it or like whatever the reason is.

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