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Healing Sexual Shame: Deconstructing Trauma and Reclaiming Intimacy

February 16, 202630 min

Healing Sexual Shame: Deconstructing Trauma and Reclaiming Intimacy

High On Healthy

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Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers explores the pervasive issue of sexual shame, tracing its roots to early childhood experiences, particularly caregivers' negative reactions to a child's natural discovery of their genitals. Dr. Sellers and Richard Zwicky discuss how this emotional abuse, often unintentional, creates a core feeling of shame that negatively impacts attachment styles, trust, and intimacy in adult relationships. They highlight the need for comprehensive sex education and introduces the process of "deconstruction"—curiously examining the origins of one's shame and reconstructing a healthier narrative.

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Hi everyone, it's Richard Zwicki with High Unhealthy, the show where we know there's no one path to healthy, so we explore them all. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite listening location. Today I'm joined by Dr. Tina Schirmer Sellers, who's a psychotherapist, professor, bestselling author and medical director of Inanna Rising and the Northwest Institute on Intimacy.

Welcome to the show, Tina. Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here with you, Richard. Yeah, it's wonderful to have you on and, you know, to take a look at, you know, challenges people face and looking for paths to healing from many different perspectives.

And, you know, your book and your topics are— they're extensive, but they tend to help people look at Um, how do you address sexual shame in some years? Because religion and culture tends to shame people for sexual experiences, which really is something everybody should encourage and embrace because it's our— it's a moment where we are ourselves and should be ourselves. Mm-hmm. How does the shame form that actually gets us into this?

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