Re-Inhabiting Boundaries, Pleasure and New Sexual Intimacy After Childhood Abuse with Somatica Practitioner Dr. Laura Jurgens
Dec 3, 2023
auto_awesome
Dr. Laura Jurgens, a Somatica Practitioner, shares her journey of reclaiming pleasure and intimacy after childhood abuse. Topics include overcoming numbness, reclaiming boundaries, healing trauma, and exploring new patterns of connection and intimacy.
Reclaiming pleasure post-abuse involves embodying nature and restoring sexual sovereignty.
Processing emotions and self-compassion are crucial for reconnecting with the body after trauma.
Healthy boundaries are rooted in self-care, not control, and involve authentic communication of needs.
Deep dives
Exploring the Restoration of Pleasure
Honor the pleasures of your body by embodying your nature, focusing on restoration of pleasure and sexual sovereignty. Certified somatic sex educator, Rahi Chun, introduces Dr. Laura Jurgens and discusses reclaiming boundaries after childhood traumas.
Healing from Childhood Trauma and Disconnection
Dr. Laura Jurgens shares her journey from childhood abuse to reclaiming her body and intimacy. Disconnected from her body due to childhood trauma, she emphasizes the importance of processing emotions to achieve embodiment and self-compassion.
Learning Healthy Boundaries and Self-Compassion
Dr. Laura highlights the significance of setting healthy boundaries rooted in self-care and compassion. She suggests that boundaries are not about controlling others but about honoring personal capacity and communicating needs authentically.
Somatic Sexual Exploration and Intimacy Dynamics
Explore somatica method as a practice-focused approach to intimacy. Dr. Laura emphasizes deepened connections through touch and intimacy, creating a safe relationship lab to navigate arousal, emotions, desires, and boundaries.
Reinventing Sexual Dynamic in Long-Term Relationships
Laura and her husband journey into rediscovering intimacy by resetting the sexual dynamic. Starting from exploration without orgasm goals, building slow touch communications, they rebuilt a new relational imprint, emphasizing patience and intentionality.
Dr. Laura Jurgens, certified Sex & Intimacy Coach & Somatica Practitioner, shares her journey of re-inhabiting and reclaiming her body, her sexual pleasure, and re-writing the sexual intimacy in her marriage after years of dissociation as a survivor of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
Get the Snipd podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share & Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode