Sexologist Alexa Andre (@sexwithalexa) gets in bed with certified holistic sexuality educator and embodied intimacy & relationship coach Lauren Elise Rogers for a deeply honest conversation about sexual trauma, healing, pleasure, intimacy, consent, and reclaiming your relationship with your body.


In this episode:

  • Sexual trauma and sexual assault
  • Consent and coercion
  • Why sexual trauma can be underreported
  • Shame and sex-negative culture
  • Rape culture and normalizing sexual harm
  • Victim vs. survivor language
  • Why healing is not linear
  • Trauma, fear and helplessness
  • Processing an experience after it happens
  • Talking to a safe person after trauma
  • Trauma and the body
  • Accountability and taking responsibility
  • Apologies and relationship repair
  • Defensiveness and ego after causing harm
  • Listening to impact instead of defending intent
  • Asking curious questions
  • Communication and empathy
  • Sex educators and trauma therapists working together
  • Pleasure as part of healing
  • Reclaiming intimacy after sexual trauma
  • Sex after sexual assault
  • Pelvic-floor responses and sexual tension
  • Triggers and nervous-system responses
  • Neural pathways and creating new experiences of safety
  • Somatic healing and body-based responses
  • Shaking, movement, dancing and laughter
  • Orgasm and pleasure
  • Play as a healing modality
  • Trauma becoming connected to erotic arousal
  • Forgiveness vs. reconciliation
  • Boundaries after harm
  • Self-forgiveness
  • Healing within healthy relationships
  • Time, memory and healing
  • Why healing doesn't necessarily mean never being triggered
  • Reclaiming pleasure, agency and identity
  • Building a life beyond simply “surviving”


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Website: www.sexedforyou.com


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