The Sex & Podcast with Meagan Narvaez – Details, episodes & analysis

Danina Avery is a Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, and Breastfeeding Counselor who lives in south Florida. She provides services in the Miami-Dade, Broward, and West Palm Beach counties. Her biggest pursuit as a doula is to educate and instill the confidence in birthing families to be able to make decisions that fit best with their lifestyle. She decided to become a doula after her own birth and postpartum doula created such a difference in her, and her husband's, passage into parenthood. Serving all types of births – in homes, birthing centers, or hospitals, has brought so much fulfillment to her. All births are unique, not only to their location but also to their experience. Danina is always continuing her education, as birth evidence changes and evolves quite often. Her job as a birth worker allows her to provide the support parents and babies need in order to ease the transition into the wonderful life of parenthood.

In this episode we talk about:

• Danina's journey from college student, to young mom and doula.
• How birth can affect your body, sex life, and mental health post-partum
• Growing up in a family where sex is a taboo topic
• Myths and pressures of "bouncing back" after having a baby
• Why every birthing person needs to see a pelvic floor therapist post-partum (and maybe I do too!)

Resources:

"To Kegel or Not to Kegel, That is the Question" video by Susan Winograd, P.T http://bit.ly/kegelorno

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If you’d like to contact Danina Avery, you can do so on:
Website: https://midsummersevedoulaservices.com/
Instagram: @Midsummers_Eve_Doula
Facebook: Midsummer's Eve Doula

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Tylia Flores is a 24-year-old born with cerebral palsy. Although her condition has affected her mobility, it has never affected her will and determination to make a difference in the world. Through her many life challenges and obstacles, she discovered her passion for writing. Tylia’s goal in life is to share her stories with the world. In doing so, she hopes to help others with disabilities realize that they, too, have the potential to make their dreams come true.

This episode was previously published on 2/22/2020

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Website: https://www.tyliaflores.com/

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Hey all,

This is a solo episode again. This is an episode that comes from the anger, sadness, exhaustion of the violence toward Black people that has escalated. And in that sprinkled wit hope that we can all find pleasure in radical resistance to the harm being caused. 

At the end, there is also an announcement. The Sex & Podcast will be taking a 6-week break. The plan is to prepare for Season 1 Part 2 and keep going with another 20 episodes. 

Make sure to subscribe to get a notification when the podcast is back, and follow me on social media to get more content. :)

Love you all. Thank you for your support. 

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Liz Goh is a 40-year-old, Chinese-Singaporean, female (she/her). She identifies as heteroflexible.

Liz’s personal goal is the continual education of sex-positivity in Asia, namely in Hong Kong and Singapore, where she spends most of her time normalizing sex conversations, through online forums and in-person workshop/discussion facilitation. Liz noticed a lack of online English language resources for sex education, sex positivity and sex/relationship coaches in Hong Kong, which lead Liz to start Sex Geekdom Hong Kong (a chapter of Sex Geekdom International).

In Liz’s personal life, she struggles with insecurity and self-inferiority. This often brings up feelings of anxiety, but being a regular yoga practitioner has helped her to center herself. Liz attributes some of this way of thinking from growing up in Singapore, a relatively conservative and restrictive environment to sexuality in its social norms and politics. As a way to heal and move forward, Liz sought the support of a Sexologist. Through working with her coach, Liz also uses meditation and breathwork as additional tools for self-reflection.

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If you’d like to contact Liz, you can do so on:
Facebook: @Elizabeth.goh.12
Personal Instagram: @elizabeth.goh
FB group: Sex Geekdom Hong Kong

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CW: bullying, sexual assault, suicide ideation

Citra Benazir, 24, Jakarta, Indonesia — founder of Tis The Lyfe, a safe space for all volunteers and author of Pleasure Girls. Citra has a background in Diplomacy and International Relations, yet her passion is to voice and empower those who've lost theirs along the way. Currently, she likes to channel her view on Pleasure Activism, talking about the difficult things, ending stigmas, and shining a light on topics often hidden. Empowering others to speak up is her main focus.

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If you’d like to contact Citra, you can do so on:
Instagram: @thearticbenazir
Instagram: @pleasuregirls_
Medium.com/@thearticbenazir

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On this week’s episode, I explore 5 ways you can boost your sexual self-esteem. The answers might surprise you.

1. Look at yourself, nude, in the mirror. Say out loud one thing you love about your body each day.
2. Using a mirror, look yourself in the eye and tell yourself “I love myself.” The more you do it, the more you wholeheartedly believe it.
3. Maturbate. BONUS: scream your name while you cum
4. Drink water
5. Find pleasure in everything you do
   

Enjoy!

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Friday Elliott is a 33-year-old pansexual, Chicana/White cis-gender female (she/her).

CW: This episode discusses eating disorders, rape, domestic violence, alcohol abuse

Friday says she always felt a desperate need to please and to take care of others. This has led her to attach herself to people who feel too comfortable putting the burden of their own emotional work on others and refusing to take responsibility for themselves. She has a history of enabling that behavior and of conflating spinelessness with compassion.

This has led Friday to a series of unhealthy and often violent relationships. Almost 19 years old and pregnant, the father of her child became abusive, emotionally, and physically. She fled the relationship by dissociating when she needed to, and by seeking safety in two supportive co-workers. In the following relationships she experienced, Friday's dissociation became worse. She became the character she absorbed in literature and media for long periods, sometimes forgetting her child existed.

While working in the restaurant industry, Friday was involved in the restaurant culture of heavy drinking and drug use. This time in her life was marked by unfulfilling sexual encounters, typically leaving her feeling worse.

Since these times, Friday has been alcohol-free for a bit over a year. She attributes this growth with the help of her support systems, therapy, and tea. Friday is learning bit by bit to create boundaries with other people and learning to enjoy saying no. She's also stopped letting people tell her that she feels too strongly or has too much sexual interest.

Throughout her life experiences, Sacred Sexuality has always been key to her personal self-love and confidence. By shedding shame around being "too much," Friday has been able to prune unhealthy connections from her life. Instead, she's surrounding herself with mutually loving and respectful relationships.

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If you'd like to contact Friday, you can do so on:
Twitter: @fridayelliott
Instagram: @friday.at.home
Professional Teashop Website: www.fridaytea.com
Personal: www.fridayelliott.com (essays and original works on the topics of death and fiction)

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Jada Stinnett is a 22-year-old non-binary queer person, using she/her and they/them pronouns. She identifies as Black, Afro latinx, and Puerto Rican, using them interchangeably. Jada is a Senior at a university in Las Vegas, Majoring in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering. She is also polyamorous.

In this episode, Jada and I talk about:

• her experience growing up queer in her family
• gender dysphoria around getting a period
• the polyamorous dating scene in Las Vegas
• how she introduced her new partner, who was unfamiliar to polyamory, to an already existing relationship partner. 
• how she makes her long-distance relationships work, even before COVID-19
• how putting on makeup is an act of self-care and self-love
• and how stress can take that away when she is feeling the pressure to succeed as the first one in her family to go to college.

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If you’d like to contact Jada, you can do so on:
Instagram: @whatwouldjadado https://www.instagram.com/whatwouldjadado/

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Yannil Gonzalez (she/her) is a 32-year-old Afro-Latina woman born and raised in New York City during the crack\cocaine epidemic of the late 80s. Subsequently, these conditions led to her being cocaine-addicted at birth and placed into the foster care system.

By the age of 3, she was adopted, and favorable circumstances would enable her to blossom. Although her upbringing wasn’t conventional, these very factors would serve as guiding principles as she matured. Using those experiences, Yannil intends on becoming a mouthpiece for other fostered/adopted people throughout America. She eventually plans on providing a space where people with similar stories are represented in a positive light. To do so, Yannil has painstakingly committed to her purpose, strategically positioning herself and earning a role in overseeing professional development for one of the most prominent law firms in the country.

Catch her sharing her life, her truth, and her story at an open mic in a borough near you.

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If you would like to get in touch with Yannil, you can contact her at:
Instagram: @just_yannil https://www.instagram.com/just_yannil/
Email: Yannil.go@gmail.com

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Monique Farook (she/her), the host of the Infertility and Me podcast, was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in the Spring of 2016, in preparation for IVF. A year before getting the diagnosis, she noticed a decline in sexual desire and libido. She assumed it was because of stress from her career and working long hours. She had no idea until further researching the condition of how hypothyroidism affects reproductive sexual health and fertility.

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If you would like to get in touch with Monique, you can contact her at:
Email: infertilityandme@outlook.com
Website/Podcast: http://www.infertilityandmepodcast.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infertilityandme_

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