Women are expected to be sexy, but not sexual. We’re bombarded with conflicting, shame-inducing, and disempowering messages about sex, instead of being encouraged to connect with our true sexual selves. Sexy gets reduced to a performance, leaving us with little to no space to reckon with the complexities of sexuality.
In a culture intent on telling you who and how to be, standing in your truth is revolutionary. (from the Amazon book description for Taking Sexy Back)
Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University and a licensed clinical psychologist. She is the author of the book Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want (New Harbinger, 2017).
Her second book, about sexual self-awareness, Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationship You Want, was published in February 2020. Dr. Solomon maintains a psychotherapy practice for individual adults and couples, teaches and trains marriage and family therapy graduate students, and teaches the internationally renowned undergraduate course, “Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101.”
Find out more at dralexandrasolomon.com
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032: How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
031: Premarital Counseling with Mayi Dixon
030: Helping Couples Cope After Infidelity with Terri DiMatteo
029: Love Your Paperwork with Maelisa Hall
028: Exploring EFT with Jim Thomas
027: Harriet Lerner on Apologizing
026: Less Conflict, More Connection with Figs O'Sullivan
025: Love is a Verb with Bill O'Hanlon
024: Couples and Autism with Janeen Herskovitz
023: Ernesto Segismundo on Creativity, Video, and Social Media
022: Gay Couples with Alapaki Yee and Salvatore Garanzini
021: True Love is not True: Relationships Take Work
020: How to Ask About Sex in Couples Therapy with Martha Kauppi
019: Hedy Schleifer on Encounter-centered Couples Therapy
018: Amber Hawley on Building Your Business Community
017: Using Gottman Interventions to Enhance Intimacy with Laura Heck
016: Joy Harden Bradford on Being Open to the Conversation of Privilege
015: Lori Gottlieb on Writing to Help Relationships
014: Addiction and Couples Therapy with Bob Navarra
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