Sexual Healing Central
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSexual Healing is the pathway to greater pleasure, intimacy, and wholeness.
Who needs sexual healing? Anyone who has ever experienced rejection, trauma, body shame, infidelity, functional issues, addiction, libido mismatch, or too much stress. In other words, everyone! In each episode, we share concise wisdom from a leading healing and/or pleasure expert. You’ll also learn from individuals who’ve bravely overcome their own bedroom challenges.
Hosted by Laura Zam, a relationship coach, sexuality educator, and author of the bestselling memoir The Pleasure Plan.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pleasure-Plan/Laura-Zam/9780757323508
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Episodes
HOW TO HAVE CONSCIOUS RELATIONSHIPS
January 07, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 53.4 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Carrie Jeroslow an international bestselling author, coach and intuitive. Carrie teaches us how to have a conscious relationship—that is, a relationship where all parties grow into their best selves. For a video excerpt, tune into my https://youtu.be/0lEZG17chIk (YouTube channel). And here’s how you can connect with Carrie Jeroslow http://www.carriejeroslow.com (Website) https://www.facebook.com/CarrieJeroslowAuthorCoachIntuitive (Facebook) ht...
HOW TO HEAL THRU WRITING PROMPTS
December 10, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes - 73.2 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Leslie Pietrzyk - author of a stunning new short-story collection, ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE. We talk about writing prompts as a way 2 heal—from what ails us or holds us back! For a video excerpt, tune into my https://youtu.be/tbrGjjpeT2A (YouTube channel). And here’s how you can connect with Leslie Pietrzyk https://www.facebook.com/leslie.pietrzyk (Facebook) https://twitter.com/lesliepwriter (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/lesliepwriter/?hl=e...
HOW TO HEAL THRU BELLY DANCE
December 03, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 66.1 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Gigi Anita Nash. As the owner of MhayaMovement, she loves combining the sacred art of belly dance with healing. She'll share WHY belly dance can be great for sexual healing. For a video excerpt, tune into my https://youtu.be/t-W4UVPNU2I (Youtube channel) And here’s how you can connect with Gigi Anita Nash https://www.facebook.com/gigianash (Facebook) https://mhayamovement.com/ (Website) https://twitter.com/giginash (Twitter) https://www.insta...
HOW TO HEAL SEXUAL CONFLICT
October 22, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 59.6 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Jeannie and Mark Daly-Gunter, co-founders of The Transformative Loving™ Institute. Jeanne and Mark are known as the “couple’s coaching couple.” On this podcast episode they share their Love Map (also the title of Jeanne’s book) which helps couples understand and heal sexual conflicts. For a video excerpt, tune into my https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niiOalvlvkk (Youtube channel), Give a Listen! And here’s how you can connect with Jeannie and M...
HOW TO USE TANTRA OUTSIDE THE BEDROOM
July 23, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 46.7 MBSexual Healing Central this week is a conversation about how Tantra can be used OUTSIDE the bedroom. Physical intimacy is only a small part of Tantra, which is a system that helps us find more presence, peacefulness and power in our bodies and the world. How does it work? It’s a subtle way of cultivating and harnessing sexual energy, so it’s part of our whole day. What?? Listen to this short episode to learn more.
HOW TO TRANSFORM SELF-SABOTAGE INTO SELF-LOVE
June 24, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Jonathan Troen. Jonathan is a Life Mastery Coach, Mindfulness Teacher, and creator of the Self Love Revolution. He helps entrepreneurs make the shift from self-sabotage to self-compassion, so they can enjoy their life, business, and bank account all at the same time. Jonathan spent 20 years in the music and entertainment business, living the life of his dreams and interviewing the biggest stars in the world. But he still wasn't happy. He also fo...
HOW TO THRIVE WHEN LIFE SUCKS – USING PLEASURE
June 11, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 25.3 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Pasha Marlowe. Pasha is a therapeutic comedy coach who specializes in empowering women to see the world through the lens of humor, pleasure, and play, even on the difficult days. Pasha holds a masters in marriage and family therapy and is the host of the Let Pleasure Be the Measure Podcast. She’s also the author of My Next Husband Will Be a Lesbian. She resides in Maine and is the mom of a chronically ill child and two adult children who text he...
USING BURLESQUE FOR HEALING
May 28, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Arielle Antwine, or simply Ari. Ari is a Sex Ed Content Creator, Podcaster, Sex Coach, Yoga Instructor, and Showgirl! Though prefers the title Sensual Educator & Facilitator to describe her work. Ari shared so much wisdom during our interview. Foremost how burlesque is a healing art form. As performance stages open up again, I know many of you are curious about this art form. Listen in to have Ari explain what burlesque is, and isn’t. She also s...
HEALING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY
May 15, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 16.8 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Andrea Javor. Andrea is a a CDC© Certified Divorce Coach & Career Development Coach who specializes in helping professional women move forward with confidence and conviction so they can intentionally create their happily better after. She’s the creator of the The Happily Better After Accelerator™, a strategic 4-step plan teaching professional women how to “future-proof” their happiness at work and at home. Known as The Better After Coach, she h...
10. Cailin McDuff: How to Get Into Your Desire
May 07, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 36 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is @CailinMcDuff. Cailin is The Working Woman’s Pleasure Guide. Her specialty is helping women who are experiencing high levels of stress (all of us, right?). She helps her clients find their truest, most soulful desires. And then she helps them realize those desires! She’ll be teaching us: How to Get Into Your Desire. If you want a short burst aliveness, tune into the short video excerpt on my Youtube channel. Give a Listen to Full Interview: ...
9. Kara Hololik: Healing From Vestibulodynia: One Woman's Journey
April 16, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 30.8 MBMy guest on Sexual Healing Central today is Kara Hoholik. Kara is the founder of Social for Good, a content marketing agency that supports entrepreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofits. Kara is offering ANOTHER kind of social good. She’s talking about her personal experience dealing with—and overcoming—vestibulodynia, a kind of pelvic pain condition that can lead to painful sex. This episode is helpful for anyone with a pelvic pain condition, which often involves lots of doctors and ignoran...
8. Pamela Aubrey: How to Use Energy Healing for Sexual Trauma
April 09, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 27.3 MBMy guest on Sexual Healing Central this week is Pamela Aubrey. Pamela is an author, podcaster, and energy healer. She’s also a regular contributor to Thrive Global. Her mission is helping individuals upgrade to their best life by sharing stories of success and victory. She also supports non-profit organizations for children by donating her services and helps raise awareness for domestic violence. In this episode, Pam teaches us some energy healing techniques we can use to heal/manage sexual t...
7. Ben Rousseau: How to Create Healing and Sensuous Environments in our Homes
March 30, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 34.2 MBThis week I’m talking to Ben Rousseau. Ben is a British artist and designer now based in Manhattan Beach, California. Ben creates high tech homes, luxury interior products and modern artworks that harness a passion for digital lighting and technology. Ben talked to us about making a nurturing, healing, and romantic environment in our own homes—with what we might already have! I was so blessed to have a professional opinion on creating these spaces. Have a listen! Give a Listen: 00:00 – Intro...
6. Rachel Kramer Bussel: How to Use Erotica for Pleasure and Healing
March 17, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 47.9 MBThis episode features Rachel Kramer Bussel, who is the editor of the Best Women's Erotica of the Year series, including the latest, which is Volume 6. Women’s erotica can be so useful to connecting and reconnecting us to our sensual selves. Often we need something…interesting…to help us with that connection. Let Rachel Kramer Bussel give you so much more information about this medium and its uses. Give a Listen: 0:00 – Intro 07:00 – How did you get into editing/writing erotica? 10:...
5. Abby Maslin: How to Brave Intimacy After Tragedy, Trauma or Change
March 14, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 32.4 MBMy guest this week on Sexual Healing Central is Abby Maslin, who is the author of the esteemed memoir https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/loveyouhard/ (#LoveYouHard). Abby’s beautiful husband, and the father of her 2 year-old little boy, went to a baseball game one night and never came home. Eventually, she learned her husband had been brutally attacked, sustaining traumatic brain injury. He could no longer walk, or even speak. In my interview with her, Abby shares so much wisdom and hope ...
4. Liz Lehman, MD: What are the Best Candles to Use in the Bedroom?
March 14, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 26.7 MBIn this episode, Laura talks with Liz Lehman, MD, who is founder and CEO of Aluminate Life, a company that makes candles and other home fragrance products. Laura discovered these candles accidentally, and talks about how they don’t give her headaches, and other allergic reactions, like almost every other candle she’s tried. The fact that Liz is a doctor, very committed to health, might have something to do with that. Liz wants you to create a sanctuary out of your home—especially the bedroom....
3. Tara Scott MD: What Hormones are Safe to Take After Menopause?
February 17, 2021 05:15 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode of Sexual Healing Central, Laura Zam welcomes Tara Scott, MD, Revitalize Medical Group, Chief Medical Officer and Founder of Revitalize Medical Group in Akron, Ohio. Dr. Scott, is an integrative gynecologist known the “The Hormone Guru,” For women and vulva owners approaching and landing in menopause (moving beyond too), there is also incredible confusion about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In this episode, tries to clear this up, including: risks and benefits; history of...
2. Susan Shapiro: How to Forgive Your Partner--and Anyone
February 16, 2021 23:00 - 25 minutes - 26.2 MBIn this episode of Sexual Healing Central, Laura Zam welcomes New York Times bestselling author, Susan Shapiro, who recently published a book called THE FORGIVENESS TOUR: HOW TO FIND THE PERFECT APOLOGY. In this brilliant book—filled with the author’s poignant quest for an apology as well as the lives of people who’ve forgiven after manslaughter, genocide, and other unspeakable offenses—we learn about how to live in peace with ourselves and others. Susan Shapiro, who’s been happily married fo...
1. Lakila and Eric Bowden: How to Have More Fun with Intimacy
February 16, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 16.2 MBIn this episode of Sexual Healing Central, bestselling author and podcast host Laura Zam welcomes Lakila and Eric Bowden, founders of Dope People Who, a coaching company that helps “Black singles and couples amplify their dopeness so they can experience wildly healthy and fun relationships.” In our interview, this wise and full-of-starshine couple talk about why Black couples and singles have particular intimacy challenges, requiring customized solutions. They also give tips for more intimacy...