"Sex When You Don't Feel Like It" with Cyndi Darnell
07/28/22 • 44 min
Karen interviews sexologist Cyndi Darnell about her new book that helps you connect to your authentic desires and work with mismatched libidos within partnership.
In this episode:
- Cyndi Darnell - Sex & relationship therapist, clinical & somatic sexologist
- Buy Sex When You Don't Feel Like It: The Truth about Mismatched Libido and Rediscovering Desire on Bookshop – support independent booksellers and Wild & Sublime when you buy through our link! Plus many more sex & relationship book recs.
- Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
Looking for episodes on a specific topic? There's a list!
Want to rev up your relationship and bust out of limiting patterns? Host Karen Yates is an intimacy coach and somatic sex educator who works with couples online and in person in Chicago to help improve their intimate communication and expand pleasure in a process that can be embodied, meaningful, and fun. Go to karen-yates.com and set up a free Zoom consultation.
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership club, brings you regular bonus content, early show alerts, discounts to live shows, and more goodies! Join now to help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity. Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free...
Karen interviews sexologist Cyndi Darnell about her new book that helps you connect to your authentic desires and work with mismatched libidos within partnership.
In this episode:
- Cyndi Darnell - Sex & relationship therapist, clinical & somatic sexologist
- Buy Sex When You Don't Feel Like It: The Truth about Mismatched Libido and Rediscovering Desire on Bookshop – support independent booksellers and Wild & Sublime when you buy through our link! Plus many more sex & relationship book recs.
- Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
Looking for episodes on a specific topic? There's a list!
Want to rev up your relationship and bust out of limiting patterns? Host Karen Yates is an intimacy coach and somatic sex educator who works with couples online and in person in Chicago to help improve their intimate communication and expand pleasure in a process that can be embodied, meaningful, and fun. Go to karen-yates.com and set up a free Zoom consultation.
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership club, brings you regular bonus content, early show alerts, discounts to live shows, and more goodies! Join now to help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity. Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free...
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How to talk to a therapist about sex
Do you talk to your therapist about your sex life? How can you find a sex-positive provider who works for you? Three professionals discuss what to look for and how to start the conversation.
In this episode:
- Blake Mackie, Hannah Schwartz & Tom Doctor of Best Therapies
- Kink and Polyamory-Aware Professionals Directory
Additional resource for therapists:
Plus Karen’s interview with clinician Carrie Jameson on kink-aware therapists
Looking for episodes on a specific topic? There's a list!
Want to rev up your relationship and bust out of limiting patterns? Host Karen Yates is an intimacy coach and somatic sex educator who works with couples online and in person in Chicago to help improve their intimate communication and expand pleasure in a process that can be embodied, meaningful, and fun. Go to karen-yates.com and set up a free Zoom consultation.
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership club, brings you regular bonus content, early show alerts, discounts to live shows, and more goodies! Join now to help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity. Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free...
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
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Religion and sex guilt
Can you get beyond religious guilt in your sex life? Can you be a religious person and also kinky, queer, polyamorous? This deep conversation explores themes of faith, the damage restrictive religions can do to our erotic spirit, and how to work toward getting free.
In this episode:
- Jera Brown - Sex and relationship columnist & fetish provider. Their podcast Left-handed Journeys explores role sexuality has played in people's spiritual identities and practices
- Brandon Hunter-Haydon - Surrogate Partner and Intimacy Coach
More on faith and sexuality:
- Dr. Laura E. Anderson on Instagram
- @thepursuinglife on Twitter
- @StPromiscuity on Twitter
- Marlene Winnell - Religious Trauma Syndrome
Books mentioned in this episode: Philip Gulley - “If Grace Is True”; “If God Is Love”
- Todd Salzman - "Sexual Ethics: A Theological Introduction," ; "The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology"
- Marcella Althaus-Reid - “Indecent Theology” . See also: The Queer God
- Many more recs on our Bookshop page!
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- This episode's transcript - Read it here.
Want to rev up your relationship and bust out of limiting patterns? Host Karen Yates is an intimacy coach and somatic sex educator who works with couples online and in person in Chicago to help improve their intimate communication and expand pleasure in a process that can be embodied, meaningful, and fun. Go to karen-yates.com and set up a free Zoom consultation.
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership club, brings you regular bonus content, early show alerts, discounts to live shows, and more goodies! Join now to help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity. Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free...
Wild & Sublime - "Sex When You Don't Feel Like It" with Cyndi Darnell
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Wild & Sublime Podcast
Season 3, Episode 17: “Sex When You Don’t Feel Like It” with Cyndi DarnellCyndi Darnell
Sex is like electricity, right? We can use it to power our homes right now. But if I wasn't managing the wiring in this apartment, it could also burn the apartment down. So it's my responsibility to make sure that all of the sockets in my apartment are taken care of. We need to start having that relationship with sex. But instead, most of us are tricked into thinki
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