11: Chief Complaint: "I have no body confidence". Finding Body Confidence Through Exercise and Sex... with Dr. Sonia Wright

Jul 1

If you struggle with low body confidence, you’re not alone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn to love your body where you are now! I’m joined by Dr. Sonia Wright, The Midlife Sex Coach, to talk about how to grow your body confidence by embracing pleasure.

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The Chief Complaint: “I have no body confidence”

Dr. Sonia is a board-certified radiologist, a sexual counselor, and a certified life coach (not to mention she’s also worked in a sex toy store). Working with Dr. Sonia is like working with three experts at once.

She will help you understand your sexual difficulties from different perspectives and use her medical knowledge, sexual counseling skills, and coaching tools to construct a holistic approach to resolving your difficulties.

There is no other sex coach like Dr. Sonia!

On this episode of Life Coaching for Women Physicians, Dr. Sonia and I are talking about how you can actually learn to have confidence in your body through exercise and sex. Yes, sex! If you’re thinking you’re nowhere near confident enough to have sex - listen up.

Dr. Sonia shares why it’s so important for you to love yourself. Where you are now, where you’ll be tomorrow, and wherever you are on this journey called life. I promise you that when you stop focusing on the destination and start enjoying the journey, your whole life happiness will improve.

We know how easy it is to say you’ll wait to do something until you’ve lost weight. But both Dr. Sonia and I believe that you shouldn’t wait until you lose weight. Do those things you want to NOW, wherever you are.

So what can help us gain body confidence where we are now? Dr. Sonia explains how exercise impacts our body confidence because it helps us feel strong and comfortable in our bodies. She also shares how feeling comfortable with your sexuality will increase your body confidence.

Owning your sexuality is empowering! It’s that connection to your pleasure center that helps improve your body confidence. You can start building pleasure into your everyday life in non-sexual ways as well, such as keeping a clean workspace or taking a long, luxurious bath.

Homework

I want you to spend some time creating pockets of pleasure in your everyday life. Whether you do this by decluttering your home or taking time to explore your sexuality, I want to know. Let me know in the comments below how that was for you!

In This Episode

Why it’s so important for you to love yourself where you are right now
How to enjoy the journey your body is on
Why you shouldn’t wait until you lose weight to do what you want to do
How exercise and athletics helps you believe in your body
What happens to your confidence when you own your sexuality
How to create pleasure in your everyday life

Quotes

“People just want to leave the situation that they’re in and get to a new situation. But so often, you bring the same issues with you. If you decide you need to lose 20lbs and you do that and you lose 20lbs, you’re still the same person with a lot of the same issues, you’re just in a smaller body now.” (4:45)

“You can’t hate your way to a goal.” (7:12)

“Exercise, general pleasure, and sex allow us to get into our body and learn how to be comfortable in our body. And if we can be comfortable in our body, there will be a lot less buffering as well. However, you can get to that place of pleasure is important.” (22:46)