How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

42 Janet McGeever | Sexuality and Relationships in the Context of Grief, Loss and Trauma

Season 4 Episode 42

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I’m so excited about this conversation I had with my dear friend Janet who I’ve known for almost 20 years. She works with individuals and couples in the area of sexuality and relationship. Janet leads the Making Love Retreat workshops where couples focus on their mindful connection through sexuality. Janet also describes the potential of suppressed emotions and trauma being brought up, released, and healed through the conscious way of lovemaking rather than having sex in a conventional way. 

You must listen to this week’s episode to find out more. 

About this week’s guest 

Janet McGeever has been a psychotherapist for almost 25 years, specializing in the field of love, sex, and intimacy, particularly in relation to midlife. She co-wrote the book, Tantric Sex and Menopause - Practices for Spiritual and Sexual Renewal with Conscious Sexuality Teacher Diana Richardson. Janet was a TEDx speaker in Noosa, Australia in 2013. She has been teaching The Making Love Retreat, a retreat founded by Diana and Michael Richardson, in Australia since 2012.

Read more about Janet here.

Janet’s links: Website | Instagram

Topics discussed in this episode

  • The impact of trauma and loss on the relationship, sexuality, intimacy
  • Grieving disconnection in a relationship and how to come back to connection
  • Trauma resulting from sexual relations
  • Developmental trauma, relational trauma
  • What slow, conscious lovemaking might bring up regarding stored suppressed emotions and trauma
  • The importance of feeling safe
  • Couples dealing with grief and the effect on the relationship and sexuality
  • From sensation to sensitivity
  • Co-regulation 

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