Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships: A Comprehensive Guide to Intimate and Emotional Freedom

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Paula Leech

Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships

A Comprehensive Guide to Intimate and Emotional Freedom

Paula Leech

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Routledge
16 October 2024

Social issues & processes; Counselling & advice services; Diseases & disorders; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy

This book gives readers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of

how anxiety, stress, and pressure can have a profound impact on pleasure,

connection, and sexual functioning, offering practical tips and techniques

for resolving common sexual struggles.

Anxiety can influence a multitude of aspects that make us who we are,

changing how we move through, make meaning of, and interact with the

world around us. Paula Leech begins by defining anxiety and how it affects

our physiology before guiding readers to identify some of the primary

sources of anxiety in their lives, such as family, gender, culture, religion,

relationship dynamics, and sexual trauma. Encouraging clients to take

responsibility, she offers alternative ways of conceptualizing and defining

sex, sexuality, sexual values, and a client’s ongoing sexual development as

a way of addressing some of the emotional, social, and psychological barriers

to intimacy. Practical and engaging, this book includes mindfulness

and embodiment exercises to help clients release stored tension, work

through specific sexual struggles and “dysfunctions,” and deepen their

connections with their body.

This guide is essential reading for established and training sex therapists

as well as for those who experience anxiety-based

sexual challenges with

their partner.

By: Paula Leech
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781032438405
ISBN 10: 1032438401
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 16 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paula Leech, LMFT, CST-S, is a certified sex therapist who has worked with individuals, relationships, and families in private practice for over ten years. She mentors sex therapists in training, and teaches at various institutes across the USA and Canada.

Reviews for Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships: A Comprehensive Guide to Intimate and Emotional Freedom

“Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships is a refreshing resource that teaches readers how to build a more compassionate, mindful, and empowered relationship to the very human experience of anxiety so they can make more space for play and pleasure in their lives - something we all need and deserve more of.” - Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, award-winning sex and relationship educator, instructor, and author of Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love ""Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships is a right-on-the-mark resource at a couldn't-be-more perfect time! In a post-quarantine, COVID world with volatile, global geo-political violence, a domestic epidemic of daily shootings, and an unprecedented erosion of reproductive rights and sexual freedoms, it seems anxiety, stress and worry have become the societal norm, impacting individuals and couples in profound ways. This easy-reading book is invaluable -- not just a great resource for sex therapists and counselors, but for anyone looking to understand how emotion, physiology and socialization combine to create obstacles to the kind of sex we want -- and most importantly, it helps us find our way through them. Paula has taken her years of training in sex therapy and deftly condensed and simplified complex therapeutic topics, making her advice to readers approachable, relatable and actionable."" - Dr. Richard Siegel, PhD, sex therapist & supervisor, educator & trainer, author & researcher, and Co-Director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes