Learning to Love Yourself — Especially When Dealing With Loss, Grief&Shame - a podcast by Dr. Jessica OReilly

Dr. Ava Cadell shares her journey from growing up in an orphanage and surviving assault to working as a nude model and becoming one of the most well-known sexologists in the world. Ava shares a wealth of information from her personal and professional journeys including:

Exercises to heal from loss and self-hateHow to find your own voice after trauma
Strategies for loving yourself after the loss of a loved oneNeuro-based exercises to break familiar patterns
Strategies for improving body image and rewriting scripts about love, sex and intimacyThe role of art therapy, empathy and meditation in healing
Free resources for those dealing with grief, loss and shameThis podcast is brought to you by Desire Resorts.









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Learning to Love Yourself  Especially When Dealing With Loss, Grief&Shame

00:00:05 - 00:05:18You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jess podcast sacks and relationship advice you can us tonight. Hey Hey it's just Riley here your friendly neighborhood sexologist. I am without the love of my life partner in crime. Mister Brennan wear today because because I am down in our head to think about that Austin Texas for a clinical training so yesterday hosted a training session on how how lenses and lessons from consensual non monogamy research can be applied to all relationships including monogamous relationships ups and one of the folks who was a part of this clinical audience mostly therapists and counselors and educators in the field who. I really don't have anything to teach but she was there for her. Cu Credits is Dr Eva KC and Asec Certified Sex Counselor. The author of eleven books and and the founder of Love All g university and that's love univ- dot Com and Eva. I've admired did your work long before. I think I'd even heard the word sexology. So it's pretty humbling to have you in a training but also to just sit and chat with you and we have a a similar story so thanks for being here. Oh thank you for having me now. You have been doing this a while. I would say so over twenty five years and how did you got your start. Well my stock came from adversity because I was born in Hungary during revolution smuggle to an orphanage in Austria Austria raised by strict nuns. Who made me believe that sex was evil and my body was so dirty that it would be a model send then if I touched myself and so I grew up a very confused? Teenager had horrible relationships and when I hit rock bottom I decided I need to find out everything I could about love relationships and sex and so where where do you start. How old were you? Well I started in London where I became a nude model? Yes and you're really beautiful in the in these well but I did that out of you know rebellion really. I say I'm a fallen in Catholic however I consider myself quite spiritual and I believe in Karma but I don't like religion that uses guilt to control people mm-hmm because I believe that love and sex the most precious gift we can give to somebody who's worthy of it exactly and so so nude model auteuil is that well no I was. I was in nude model for the sun the Daily Mirror. They had a page three. Go if you ever heard of that. I also posed in a lot of men's magazines when I was very young and it was the only way I could make ...

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