Sex Help for Smart People
Struggling with intimacy or sexual confidence? You're not alone. Dr. Laura Jurgens, dual-certified intimacy coach and former professor, helps you transform relationship problems into deeper connection through research-based, somatic approaches.
This podcast addresses sexual healing, embodiment, and nervous system regulation to help you overcome sexual shame and trauma. Learn how to talk about sex with confidence, improve intimacy in your relationship, and discover your authentic desires through pleasure-based methods.
Each episode delivers practical relationship coaching techniques that actually work - from healing sexual trauma to building genuine sexual confidence. Dr. Jurgens combines her expertise in somatic therapy principles with real-world coaching to help you understand why intimacy feels hard and how to make it easier.
Whether you're working through relationship challenges, want better sex, or need support with sexual healing, this show offers shame-free guidance for smart people ready to transform their intimate lives.
Topics include: sexual confidence building, embodiment practices, nervous system regulation for intimacy, healing sexual trauma, relationship communication, and somatic approaches to sexual wellness.
No ads, no product placements. Just evidence-based help for better sex and relationships.
Disclosure: expect explicit content and a fair bit of swearing!
Sex Help for Smart People
Relationship Skills Part 2: Attuning to Your Partner
Attuning well to your partner feels great for both of you. It enables emotional intimacy, which makes sexy time way better and much more likely to happen. It's also key for the special kind of non-verbal communication required in physical intimacy. But how do we do it well?
This episode will walk you through how to attune well to your partner. It will also help you avoid the top 3 big things that get in the way of attunement, understand how to differentiate attuning from projecting on someone, and give you a satisfying, easy practice that will help you get great at it.
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