With Pleasure
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-64160-503-8 (ISBN)
With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times.
Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT, and sexuality journalist and podcaster August McLaughlin, With Pleasure provides a much-needed alternative to harmful “self-help” ideologies that instruct people to “change their thoughts” or “choose to be happy.”
Instead, Dawson and McLaughlin encourage readers to respect their feelings, understand the complexities of a society and systems that fuel trauma, foster self-compassion, and embrace pleasure.
August McLaughlin is a nationally recognized health and sexuality writer, trauma-informed certified sex educator, and host and producer of the podcast Girl Boner Radio. Her articles have been featured by Cosmopolitan, the Washington Post, Salon, HuffPost, LIVESTRONG.com, and more. She is the author of Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, featured in the New York Times, Health, and Shape. She has presented at colleges, recovery centers, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. Jamila Dawson, LMFT is a licensed sex and relationship therapist, writer, and educator. She runs her private psychotherapy and consulting business, Fire & Flow Therapy, and teaches as adjunct faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles. She has lectured at the University of Southern California and AASECT Summer Institute, and collaborated with a variety of sex therapists and educators, as well asBuzzfeed,Playboy,Harper's Bazaar, and other media outlets. She presents locally and nationally on sexuality, empowerment, BDSM/kink, pleasure, relationships, and trauma-informed/healing-focused psychotherapy.
Foreword
About this Book
1 “Why is this happening to me?”
August: In Her Own Words
Jamila: Why Sex Therapy?
2 “What is happening to me?”
Desiree: Trust, Disability, and BDSM
KM: Finding Zen
3 “How can I stop this?”
Anne: Reclaiming Self-Worth
Wolf: Chosen Family, Consent, and Cis Male Survivors
4 “I need help.”
Gloria: Different (Not Broken) and Sex-Positive Therapy
Nadia: Day Programs, Group Therapy, and Settling Into Love
Ginny and Jean: Grief, Communication, and Safer Self-Help
5 “I am such a problem.”
RenÉ: ADHD and Self-Understanding
Robert and Hannah: Building Trust, Intimacy, and Communication
6 “Healing is taking too long.”
Natalie: Awareness, Reframing, and Orgasmic Meditation
Beth: Intergenerational Trauma and Ancestral Strength
7 “They don’t understand.”
Taylor: Life-Saving Psychiatry and Developing Her True Self
EL: Embracing Desires and Sexuality Integration
8 “How can I get my life back?”
Kimleigh: You are Your Own Superhero
Arden: Awareness, Magic, and Sexual Narratives
Jazz: No Longer Conforming and Ancestral and Animist Practices
9 “Should I forgive? If so, how?”
Cheryl: Owning her Story, Forgiveness as Freedom
Andrea: Pleasure to Behold, Forgiveness as Optional
10 “Dang. I thought I was healed.”
Winnie: “Baby Steps” Back to Pleasure
Brian: Permission to Struggle and Grow
Suggested Exercises and Illustrations
Afterword: Our process with this book
Additional Resources
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Chicago |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64160-503-0 / 1641605030 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64160-503-8 / 9781641605038 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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