Brains are tricky, as it turns out. While the field of psychology isn’t new the scientific endeavor to better understand our thoughts and manage our feelings has much to do to build itself out. And while I’m certainly no stranger to adjunct therapies, it can be hard to know if ‘what works for me’ is actually working. This week associate marriage and family therapist Emily Maynard returns to the show to talk pseudo-science, good therapy and how to tell the difference.
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If there is one through line between Dr. Darrel Ray’s inception of the Secular Sexuality podcast and whatever porn-star-interviewing home-made-kazooing shenanigans SecX has become, it’s the idea that we can unlearn the destructive myths of our sex-negative culture. In deconstructing purity culture we can better empower ourselves to make and share the love that we deserve.
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