Bodyful #18: Solo Episode on Sexual Desire 101

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By Valerie Martin

Sexual desire is one of the most loaded relationship topics in our culture— and challenges with it are the most common reason couples state for seeking therapy.

In this solo episode, I share about some of the concepts I’ve found most useful since learning more about sexual desire, desire differences in relationships, and how to get unstuck when you’re struggling with desire in your relationship.

I hope you find this episode helpful, and I'd love to know if there are topics you'd like to see covered on future solo episodes, and/or guest recommendations for the show. (Comment on this post or email me at valerie@gaiacenter.co !

We’ll be back in 2 weeks with another guest episode that I’m super excited to share with y’all.

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Bodyful Episode #07: Tara Galeano on Women Rediscovering Their Bodies

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by Valerie Martin

The more I learn in my clinical sexology doctoral program, the more I’m blown away by the field of sexology in general and the highly skilled sex therapists, coaches, and educators like this episode’s guest, Tara Galeano.

Tara got into sex therapy initially because her therapy clients were walking to talk about their sexual challenges and longings, so she committed to deepening her knowledge and expertise to be able to better support them. Later in her career, she had an awakening of her own, in which she recognized just how much she had been falling into the cultural trap of minimizing her needs and desires.

In Tara’s case, that reckoning coincided with the end of her 25 year marriage (due to layered issues that you’ll hear about in the interview)— and the beginning of a deeper commitment to herself and the fulfillment of her needs, desires, and pleasure in ALL capacities.

Tara also developed a specialty in working with women in treatment for cancer, which led to the creation of her book, Rediscovering My Body— first written for women with cancer, and then revised and re-released for ALL women longing to reconnect with their sexuality. It’s in a beautiful interactive journaling/coloring format with guided exercises— I got a copy since we initially recorded our conversation, and have started working through it. It will definitely be one I recommend to many of my clients!

As I mention in the intro of this episode, we had a technical glitch where we lost the last 15 minutes of Tara’s side of the conversation— so the episode ends more abruptly than we intended, but there’s still a lot of goodness in this one. I hope you enjoy it!

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About Tara Galeano (she/her)

Tara is the founder of Rediscovering My Body and Boulder Sex Therapy, and is an author, speaker, retreat host, and  sexual empowerment coach. She has worked with women for over two decades to get their sexy back. Tara knows that there is pleasure in the body, beyond our wildest dreams, and every woman can access it. In “Rediscovering My Body”, she teaches women how to show up for pleasure in their lives. Tara rediscovered her own body after leaving her twenty-five-year marriage. Realizing that she had given so much of herself away, she knew that she needed to come back to the inherent wisdom of the body. Now Tara has embodied this path and is moving forward to share this with women everywhere with her book, her online courses, and community, and her retreats. She lives in San Francisco with her soul sister and is learning how to live more fully in her nomadic heart.

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Bodyful Episode #03: Tiya Caniel Maynard on Innerspace Adornment & Liberation Through Sexuality

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Tiya Caniel Maynard Bodyful Podcast

Tiya Caniel Maynard is one of those people who you learn more from just by being around than by sitting in a lecture with your average university professor.

You FEEL the truth (bless that neuroception, thank you body!) and importance of what Tiya says because you know she’s earned her wisdom through the crucible of life experience, and continues to embody that truth and walk her talk just with how she consciously chooses to show up in the world.

I am gonna have to follow up with Tiya on the whole Ennegram question because, while I’m not trying to type someone else, she is bringing some BIG 7 energy to the world (very noticed and appreciated by this 7 😝) and doing ALL THE AMAZING THINGS. Be sure to check out her bio and links to many wonderful offerings below.

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About Tiya

Tiya Caniel Maynard is an interspace tailor, yoga teacher, author, designer, and more. She helps her clients and students learn how to adorn themselves from within by teaching them sustainable tools to facilitate their own healing. Shew loves adorning herself in beautiful garments, creating sacred living & work spaces, cooking & eating delicious foods, practicing rest as rebellion, writing, spending time in the woods, embodying liberation, exploring her sexual freedom as it relates to yoga and being a black woman, and giving & receiving love.

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