Tranquility du Jour #489: The Pleasure Plan

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Laura Zam about her new best-selling book, The Pleasure Plan. Hear Laura's journey to better understand her body, how to create your own pleasure hour, and the truth behind a sex brunch (it's now what you think).

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Guest: Laura Zam

Laura Zam is the author of The Pleasure Plan: One Woman's Search for Sexual Healing (HCI Books / Simon & Schuster). She's also a speaker, playwright, Certified Trauma Professional, Sexuality Educator, and women's health advocate whose work focuses on reclaiming sexual health.

Aside from her book, Laura's writing appears in The New York Times, Salon, HuffPost, Sheknows, NextTribe and other publications, as well as in seven book anthologies. In 2013, her one-person play about healing in the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse, Married Sex, was presented at the New York International Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway. Other one-person plays, keynotes, and speeches have been presented at The Kennedy Center, the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, The National Theatre, Columbia University, American Psychological Association, Verizon, and many other venues in the U.S. and abroad.

Media outlets that have covered Zam's work include NPR, The Washington Post, PBS, ABC-TV, The HuffPost, The Guardian UK, and others. As an educator, Laura has been conducting storytelling workshops with trauma survivors for the past twenty years, working with post-war teens from Bosnia, young adults from the Middle East, wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and victims of sexual violation.

Workshop venues include the Omega Center, Walter Reed Army Hospital, and the DC Rape Crisis Center. Grants include a Playwriting Fellowship from Brown University, Amiri Baraka Literary Prize, an Open Society Fund grant (Soros Foundation), a Tennessee Williams Fellowship, and five Artist Fellowships from DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Laura has taught at Brown University, UC Berkeley, George Mason, and other colleges. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University, where she studied with Pulitzer Prize winners Paula Vogel and Nilo Cruz.

She's a member of the National Speakers Association, Actor's Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Laura currently offers workshops, talks, and online courses related to sexual wellness. Visit her at LauraZam.com.

Mentioned in the Podcast

First podcast with Laura from 2009: Musings on Leaving Your Day Job

Blog post on Mental Health during Quarantine

Us speaking at The Wing last December on Women's Health at Midlife

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0:00.0	Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson and welcome to the 489th edition of Tranquility Dejure, bringing you
0:14.6	tranquility since 2005.
0:18.2	Tranquility Dejure is a series of nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful
0:23.5	life with doses of tranquility. In this week's edition of Tranquility DeJure, I'm chatting with
0:30.0	returning guest and new best-selling author, the lovely Laura Zam. And she's written the book
0:36.7	The Pleasure Plan. Here Laura's journey to better
0:40.4	understand her body, how to create your own pleasure hour, and the truth behind a sex brunch,
0:47.6	and it's not what you think. If you're not yet subscribed to Tranquility DeJure, you can do so over on
0:54.0	iTunes, in Spotify,
0:56.6	in Overcast, all the wonderful ways in which you like to listen to your podcast,
1:01.6	and there's links for this in the show notes, which can be found at Kimberlywilson.com
1:06.2	slash 489.
1:09.0	I wanted to share a recent review about the podcast and say a big thank you to those of you who have taken the time to head on over to iTunes or wherever you like to leave reviews for podcasts and to spread the word.
1:22.5	So K.O. Pelican writes, look forward to every episode. I've been listening to Kimberly's podcast on and off for
1:31.1	several years, but in the last few months, it's become a must listen for me. The variety of topics
1:37.3	and guests is wonderful, and Kimberly's sincere, upbeat manner is very inspiring. There are a lot
1:43.6	of people in this podcast space, and I think
1:46.1	she is the real deal. Thank you so much, K.O, for writing such a generous review. I really,
1:53.4	really appreciate it. And for those of you who would like to share the word about Tranqually
1:57.9	DeJure, let me know what you think. You can do so over on Kimberlywilson.com
2:03.2	slash review. There's a link that'll take you to my books on Amazon and Goodreads and, of course,
2:09.7	my podcast over in iTunes, and it really means so much. And my hope is that by spreading the word
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