70. The Real Enemy of Sexual Trauma with Therapist Jenna Mountain

If you can learn how to fight well you will have better sex. When you have an imbalance in power, you can’t have intimacy. Efforts do not equal outcome. Fault and responsibility are very different. Trauma is the enemy, not people. Embrace imperfect healing. Safety is key. Keep it complex. Jenna Mountain is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Therapist, Business Coach and Business Owner. She tells the honest truth in this powerful episode about couples counseling and healing from sexual trauma. We want our marriage to be fixed in 6 sessions and marriage therapists rarely tell the truth about how long it actually takes. This episode is jam packed with thick clinical information about trauma, sexual dysfunction, painful sex, orgasm struggles and intimacy issues. The most pervasive and basic foundational conceptual things that trauma does is take away power, choice, voice and agency. If we have experienced sexual trauma, or any kind of trauma, it is so frustrating when our body is in pain or responds in ways we don’t like. Trauma wants to perpetuate itself, maintain itself and repeat itself.

Jenna talks about the real clinical way for couples and individuals to get healing. We need to learn how to not skip over the difficult conversations and emotions, and know that on this side of eternity, we are never done. Healing doesn’t take us back to Eden’s gate.

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