The truth is that we all carry around in our being some form
of sexual shame.
Not to mention our culture and life experiences which have created feelings
of sexual shame, making romantic and intimate sex a scary endeavor to even talk about.
If you're male, get Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Laaser; if you're female, get No Stones: Women Redeemed
from Sexual Shame by Marnie Ferree.
To understand more about sexual addiction, get Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Laaser if your loved one is male, or No Stones: Women Redeemed from
Sexual Shame by Marnie Ferree if your addict is female.
A particularly striking part of John Paul II's analysis is the place he gives to
sexual shame in the work of recovering that harmony.
Dr. Tina Sellers, author of Sex, God, and the Conservative Church,
defines sexual shame as «a visceral feeling of humiliation and disgust toward one's own body and identity as a sexual being, and a belief of being abnormal, inferior, and unworthy.»
The MDiv course, was designed less to help current and future pastors help addicts and more to help ministry leaders address their own struggles
with sexual shame.
For so many young women and men who grew up in the 1990s and the 00s, God is a God
of sexual shame, a heavenly father who sits upon his throne and condemns.
I have specialized training in sex therapy and work with both couples and individuals on issues such as pain during sex, or sexual aversion, communication difficulties, sexual desire discrepancies, erectile dysfunction, lack of enjoyment or satisfaction from sex,
sexual shame or guilt, sexual trauma, and more.
This is a show about the other kind of
sexual shame: the kind that leads to people doing the other fun, weird stuff we've discussed in the past.
In the West, we reverberate between sexual obsession and
sexual shame.
The truth is that with the right adjustment in mental and emotional reframing, you can release body and
sexual shame, no matter where it comes from.
Our San Francisco Bay Area's Women's Psychotherapy Program can help you work through body image issues, east disorders, body and
sexual shame.