Pleasure & The Pause: Cultivating Pleasure During Peri/Menopause
Guest Speaker:
Sarah Tomchesson: Founder of Sex Advice for Seniors, advocate for senior sexual health.
Overview:
Join Leah and Cass from Intimate Wellbeing as they sit down with Sarah Tomchesson to explore how midlife women can cultivate pleasure during peri/menopause. This episode delves into the physical, emotional, and psychological changes that happen as we age, providing practical insights to help you navigate this transition with confidence and curiosity.
Sarah takes us through the Stages of Sexuality, from infancy through later adulthood, showing how our relationship with our bodies and sexuality evolves over time. This webinar focuses on how hormonal changes during peri/menopause can impact pleasure, desire, and arousal, offering expert advice on maintaining and even rediscovering intimacy.
What You’ll Learn:
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Stages of Sexuality:
A breakdown of how our bodies and understanding of sexuality evolve from childhood through later adulthood, with a focus on the peri/menopausal years.
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Hormonal Decline and Its Effects:
Understand how declining levels of estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone affect vaginal health, libido, and overall sexual function. Learn about common symptoms such as vaginal dryness, pain with penetration, decreased clitoral sensitivity, and low energy. But don’t fret—knowledge is power when it comes to understanding and managing these changes.
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Desire and Arousal:
Discover the difference between desire (the feeling of wanting something pleasurable) and arousal (a physiological or psychological state of alertness and excitement). Learn how arousal can exist without desire, and vice versa, and how menopausal changes can impact both.
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Contextual Desire in Midlife:
As we age, desire becomes more contextual. The outdated Penis-In-Vagina (PIV) model of sexuality is out, and understanding the nuances of arousal is in. Learn how accelerators (things that increase arousal) and brakes (things that inhibit it) work like a car, where context can either alleviate or exacerbate menopausal symptoms.
Why Watch?
This episode is designed for midlife women seeking to better understand their bodies and maintain or reignite their intimate lives during peri/menopause. Sarah Tomchesson offers a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies to help you cultivate pleasure, manage hormonal changes, and embrace this life stage with confidence. Watch now.
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