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130. How To Stay Present During Sex: Embrace Your Pleasure, Regulate Your Nervous System, & Work Through Sexual Trauma

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How Sexual Trauma Impacts Your Sex Experience

Sexual trauma is like an endocrine disruptor. If your body is the site of trauma, especially sexual trauma, you're trying to have sex. Your nervous system isn't literally stuck. That's impossible. But it feels it's sort of colloquially stuck in that state. And what your mind and body do because they love you is when You leave ventral vagal. You leave presence and go to a different place in the timeline of your life,. The film of your life but in this moment. So all of a sudden, you're six. All of a sudden you're 12, you're 24, you're 37. Whenever that sexual stress, distress or trauma happened,

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