Vulvas Makes Mainstream Television
Laura Dodsworth has done something ground breaking. She photographed women and heard their stories about how their vaginas and vulvas have shaped their lives, and then she put in on Channel 4. …
Sex Experts
What Is Good Sex?
Sex is one of those topics that everybody talks about and everybody has opinions about. What I mostly hear in my consulting room is that people don’t have good sex education and they compare themselve…
Endometriosis, Pain and Sex Life
Talking about a taboo: Endometriosis. How it affects the female sexual response and what we can do. Endometriosis is a benign disease that affects women during their reproductive life and ther…
Endometriosis Awareness Month
March is Endometriosis awareness month, highlighting and raising awareness of a condition that affects an estimated 176million women worldwide. Although any women will experience a unique rang…
How Millions of People Got Sex Education From Their Sofas
There are two key words that people keep mentioning to me at the moment. Sex Education. This is normally followed by something along the lines of ‘I loved it’ or ‘It was so good’, obviously they are n…
Trauma-Seeking Support
Following my last piece that focussed on how to involve self-care following a trauma. This article is shining a spotlight on the ways in which you can seek outside support. A way by which you can grad…
Say I Love You to Yourself This Valentines
Why is this one day in the calendar 14th February really representative of how much our partners love and appreciate us? It's a day in the annual calendar that fills so many of us with dread. For othe…
Gender Dysphoria: a Long Road
Gender dysphoria is a persistent personal discrepancy in terms of the subjective perception that an individual has about itself regarding its own gender. As a result of this discrepancy, the person ex…
What Is Trauma?
Trauma is the emotional response someone has to a deeply distressing event. While trauma is a normal reaction to an awful event, the effects can be so severe that they interfere with an individual’s a…
Relationships Take Work
If we think that relationships ‘just happen’ and ‘just work’ then they are doomed to fail. The reality of the situation is that we put effort into everything else we do in life, our careers, our skill…