Getting Naked With Tova Leigh: Monogamy, Motherhood&More - a podcast by Dr. Jessica OReilly

Tova Leigh joins Jess to share her journey as a mother, woman and author of Effed at 40. They discuss:

How she got over her body image issues after birthHow to care less about what other people thinkThe reconciliation of motherhood and sexuality
The experience of stripping down at a nude spaThe power of nude photoshoots
Her new book: Effed At 40Follow Tova on Facebook, Instagram&Twitter.



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Getting Naked With Tova Leigh: Monogamy, Motherhood&More

00:00:05 - 00:05:05You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jasser podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight Hey Jessica Riley here. Your friendly neighborhood sexologist. And I'm here with author and content creator totally. Hello Hello. It's so nice to be here so you are london-based. You're on a tour. You are all over North America and beyond and I came to the end of your show last night. It sold out. There's not a seat in the house. it was so much fun. Last night was New York as part of a worldwide tour and promoting my book. effed at forty. I can save effed at forty on your podcast. That's like so refreshing because most are no making me call it after forty which is a bit annoying at forty. It's so funny the censorship. When I first started in this field morning television. They wouldn't even call me a sexologist. They'd Commun- intimacy expert like intimacy shit about that. I just about second well and it's so funny to complete the to know you. You talk about sex all the time. Yeah I talk more. I guess about Sexuality Relief From Women's perspective. Something that I feel like not a lot of people tend to think about'cause for my own experience not obviously a an expert at all but I talk for my own experience. I have felt throughout my life that my sexuality is a woman has always kind of been viewed from a male point of view. And they think that's true for a lot of women so that's something that's really interesting to me was sort of a revelation. I had probably in my forties. Oh hang on a minute. My sexuality exists so Internal Age Ford. Yeah totally yeah yeah. So what does that mean effed at forty Yeah so people ask me. They go like what is it. Eff forties at bad I had a effing moment. God were saying. eff a lot right. The first five minutes of the show I had a eff it moment when I turned actually forty two and sort of just went. Oh my God. Life is short. What am I waiting for? I'm a mom. I have three amazing daughters and I had three kids in the space of two years so I know because I have twins. We're not as a magic uterus The way when I had a one year old and then I got pregnant and had twins and I feel like I mean again. Motherhood Mate is amazing and I'm so blessed but I felt like a lot of things. Parts of me got lost and one of the main things was sexuality that sexiness the drive for saks. You know just that whole part of me you know. Just completely shut off it. Shut down And yes so a forty two eff it moment can add decided. I'm going to go out and kind of rediscover myself and find those bits that I had lost one of them being sexuality so I I did a lot of things to try and regain that So what what did you do? How did you rediscover at forty two ish so in terms of sexuality for me it was first of all moving because I fe...

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