68 | How to create a sex positive, shame-free home with Dr Tina Schermer Sellers, Sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher & media personality
TURNED ON: Wild, free & sexy in your midlife
English - July 08, 2024 20:01 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Talking about Sex with your partner, friends and sisters is one thing. Talking about it with your kids/grandkids is in another league altogether!
If you feel awkward, embarrassed, uncertain or avoid conversations about sex in your home, you’re not alone!
Understanding sex positive parenting, and knowing how we can create a sex positive environment to live in are skills we haven’t been taught.
Good news is, it’s not too late to start now!
Whether you have kids or not, your kids are tiny or have left the home, there’s something for everyone to take away from this conversation!
My guest is the perfect person to help us appreciate and create a sex positive, shame-free home.
Dr Tina Schermer Sellers, a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, researcher, is the best selling author of ‘Sex, God & the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy’ & ‘Shame-free parenting: Everything You Need to Raise Shame Free, Confident Kids and Heal Your Shame Too’.
Discover how to empower yourself and your children, and learn practical steps to foster a healthy relationship with your body and sexuality.
Our conversation is so valuable and juicy and includes:
What turns her on
How she got into working in the sex positive education and research space
How our worth and sexual shame are interlinked
Her model that we can use to ‘Erase the M.E.S.S’
Getting a good sex education, at any age.
How we can re-parent ourselves
Your body as your home
What does sex positive education look like.
what contributes to a sex positive home
Ideally how to raise a sex positive child
What to do if you have grown children and you feel you could have done things differently
How to understand the world our kids are growing up in now
Examples of conversations we can have with children now
How the influence of media and business is impacting our children and what we can do about it
Her best tip for how we can make our home feel safe, shame free and sex positive
You can connect with Tina via:
https://www.instagram.com/drtinashameless/
Tina mentions
Peggy Orenstein's books 'Girls & Sex' and 'Boys & Sex'.