The Soft Science

Facing divorce? Erika talks with Leanne Townsend attorney and divorce coach about preparing for the divorce process and ways to reduce the pain of the divorce. Leanne offers a coaching program that can help you get through one of the toughest transitions of life. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/43   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsex...

When can you have sex after experiencing a miscarriage?  Erika answers some of your questions about taking care of yourself after experiencing this major change emotionally and physically. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/42   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

Culture is bad at handling anything that has to do with sex and shame.  Erika talks with Katie Warren who has an STI. Katie talks about her experience with having an STI and how she processed the events after.  This episode is full of information about STIs/STDs listen to learn more! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/41   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Pract...

Every year, Pornhub reviews the data it collects on every user that views porn on their site.  Erika talks about the interesting trends their data collection reveals about our porn use and our sexual fantasies. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/40   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

Erika and Adam get right down to how to explore your gender and what arouses you in this episode. Adam talks about his own exploration and how he has helped his clients figure out who they are and how to express their needs sexually. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/39   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

Have you had side effects from your anti-depressants in your sex life?  This is the episode for you.  Nick Goodwin and Erika talk about how medications can impact your sex life and options for you to try.  Erika and Nick also dive into other non-medication options for treating mental health issues.  Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/38   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon  ...

We will be offering relationship coaching groups!! Woohoo! To kick the coaching groups off we will be offering a FREE workshop both in person and online. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/37   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

Part two of my series on relationship killers! Criticism is tough whether it is coming from a partner, a friend, or even a co-worker.  Criticism typically focuses on a specific behavior and often has some polarizing language. Find out how to tackle criticism in your relationship in this episode. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/36   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My T...

Break-up sex? Or have you ever had a break up that rocked your world?  This is the episode for you!  Erika and Lindsey talk about how to deal with a break-up, what we think about break up sex and more! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/35   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

ADHD is tough!  Erika talks with Brendan Mahan who is an ADHD consultant and coach about ways to deal with having ADHD and being intimate with your partner. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/34   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

In this episode Erika talks with Don Delano who is the owner of Mon Amour Toujours which gives customers the ability to create their own personalized Intimate Partner Alternatives (IPA).  Erika and Don talk about the pitfalls of his business and also how these IPA’s have helped his customers. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/33   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Ther...

In this episode Erika talks about what things we do to kill our relationships.  Specifically, how contempt is the number one predictor of the end of a relationship.  Erika gives you skills to tackle these relationship issues! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/32   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

In this episode Erika talks with fellow therapist Laura Zane about what being a highly sensitive person means and what it might mean for their intimate lives. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/31   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

In this episode Erika talks with Maha Nasrella-Babenko, PhD about creating relationships and ways to start with a good foundation.  They also talked about how relationships do not have a bluebook or road map but there are things a new relationship can do to influence how it turns out. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/30   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Prac...

In this episode Erika talks about how negative thoughts about our bodies take us out of moments of pleasure and connection.  Erika gives a concrete way to challenge those thoughts by using techniques to distance the thoughts from your identity. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/29   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

In this episode Erika talks with Robert Kandell, about relationships and how communication effects intimacy.  More specifically how men can experience frustration in cultural messages about feelings and how they “should” express them. His book Unhidden comes out December 6, 2018! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/28   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice:...

In this episode Erika talks with a longtime friend Jaime Kennedy, Ph. D about her research on virginity and how historically virginity has been used as a tool.  Dr. Jaime brings wonderful information about how virginity or purity has historically been used as a propaganda tool.  Listen to this week’s episode to find out how! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/27   Join my Patreon: www.sexta...

In this episode Erika talks about sexual assault and where the angry posts on social media are coming from.  Erika also references research on rates of false accusations of sexual assault.   The information may surprise you.  Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/26   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

Erika interviewed comedian Billy Procida about his podcast the Manwhore Podcast.  Billy shared information about his most recent episode that featured his trip to Desire Resorts.  See why Erika said listening to his episode was like ESPN after dark. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/25   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com...

In this episode Erika talks about STIs and how to talk to our future and past partners about them.  We often battle fear and shame around sex generally and especially around STIs.  Erika teaches you to be able to talk about an STI in a real non-scary way.  Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/24   Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualheal...

In this episode of Sex Talk with Erika Miley, Erika talks about confronts shame around your kids finding out you are a sexual person. Erika offers some tips on how to have these conversations and options to hide those sexual items.  Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/23 Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

This week Erika talks about how the negative beliefs about ourselves and our bodies impact our connection to others. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/22 Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

In this episode Erika talks about how the impact of sex on the brain  and its benefits.  A variety of chemicals are associated with positive outcomes in the brain.  Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/21 Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www.mentalandsexualhealth.com  

In this episode of Sex Talk with Erika Miley,  Erika talks with Madam President from the Pussy Party Podcast.  We talk about the limitations and shame that comes with using words that describe female sex organs as something weak.  We also talk about embracing your sexual self. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/20 Join my Patreon: www.sextalkwitherika.com/patreon   My Therapy Practice: www....

I wanted to do this episode for several reasons:  I think knowledge is power. Yes, very School House Rock, but I think if you know better you can do better. My own experiences have weirded me out, and my friends and family who I have talk to about this express similar sentiments. My experience with working with people around difficult sexual problems including sexual entitlements. What is sexual e...