Sexual Grief ~ TRF Tuesday ~ Edy Nathan ~ Session 1

Sexual Grief is a response to sexually traumatic events which can occur over the span of one’s life. Sexual Grief can include abuse of any kind, ridicule after an initial sexual experience, being unwanted at birth, and menopause or erectile dysfunction. In this series you will discover six interactive, experiential hostage negotiation techniques to help you learn to listen and to shift how your mind, your body, and your emotions live within you.
5 Sessions:
1 - The Curious Listener, The Rainstorm and The Cave
2 - The Question to the Hostage Taker- Empathy in the Body
3 - Breaking the Bond: Create a new bond of trust
4 - Engage with the Cognitive Interrupters: The S.T.O.P. Method
5 - Mind and Body Dancing in Sync: Identify and name your warning label
Learn more at:
www.edynathan.com
www.traumaresearchfoundation.org
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Edy Nathan is a thought leader and Certified Sex Therapist Specializing in Trauma and Grief. She works with businesses, universities, and long-term care homes to help people understand how these areas filter through their lives and affect everything from creativity to productivity. Working together, she offers creative ways to deal with grief, trauma, and sexuality.
“The cave awaits and it’s dark, it hurts, it’s a place no one chooses. I have a love - hate relationship with the cave. That dark place is a place that moves you from stuck to metamorphosis. Knowing it is one thing, believing it will change, and open up new worlds is hard to imagine. This is what the work of sexual grief, loss and trauma is all about. I offer a new way to think about tangling with what feels like a potent adversary. Yes, New York University for a masters, and Fordham University for another master’s and University of Michigan for a sex therapist certification, make the conversations around what we’d rather not talk about, grounded, and powerfully life changing. It’s time. To Dare to Live.”

[@chancewhite5738]

I lost my wife in August and I’ve been struggling with the urges to be with someone else, even tho I know I’m not ready for a healthy relationship. I don’t want to use or hurt anyone, but I do still have these urges to get that release. This was helpful to know I’m not a gross monster for all this.

[@corneliaeland]

Looked my husband for four years, he died in Aug. 2021. My grief seems to turn into a intense lonelyness. I was a mother of four children, always busy, but now I long to be with someone...Not coping with my age either. I do participate in a lot of social activities, are fit- do gym twice a week, linedancing, walking 2km a day. Eat healthy. But...? Emptiness...

[@YanaKrasouskaya]

1:42 - Sexual grief
3:23 - Rainstorm
9:10 - In a cave
14:33 - Warning label
18:47 - Holding a rainstorm
22:57 - Q&A

[@corneliaeland]

Afraid

[@edynathan]

Thank you for sharing so much of you. Sharing is part of healing. Longing to be with another makes sense. There is no right time to be ready to meet another person. Grief can be filled with a loneliness that is deep. You are learning about yourself during this time. You are doing all the right things. Sometimes it helps to write to the person you lost and share your feelings.