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Sexual Healing: Experiencing Intimacy After Trauma

Sexual Healing: Experiencing Intimacy After Trauma

Trauma leaves you feeling confused and hurt. You forget what normal is. Sometimes you hold onto it by hiding it in the back of your mind. What you went through doesn’t disappear overnight. And the effects of that trauma can stick with you for as long as it takes you to heal.

If you’re interested in learning more about sex therapy and how sexual healing can improve your sex life, our team of certified sex therapists is one phone call or email away. When you get to know yourself, the trauma, and how it affects your life, you’re more capable of allowing yourself to heal.

Diana SadatOctober 5, 2020Allura Sex Therapy Centre - Vancouverpleasure, trauma, sexual trauma, intimacy, intimacy after trauma, sexual healing, healing, sex, sex life, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexuality, relationship counselling, communication, coping mechanisms, triggers

Finding Pleasure: how tapping into everyday pleasure is your way back to the body

Finding Pleasure: how tapping into everyday pleasure is your way back to the body

As a sex therapist, clients of all genders, ages, and walks of life come to ask me many questions. By far, some of the most common questions are: how do I feel more desire? how can I get in the mood more often? how do I figure out what I like? The body craves what it likes, what feels good to it - except, if the message you’re receiving is also a negative one, you begin to tense, to disconnect from what feels good. Soon enough, you have no idea what you want, what you like, and how to find that out. And then you find yourself here, questioning how to find desire, how to find pleasure, when your body is disconnected and you are in your head having to decide what is good or bad, rather than what FEELS good at a body level. Want to learn how to reconnect? Read on!