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Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers is a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeriti professor, and media personality whose expertise spans sex therapy, spiritual intimacy, parenting, medicine, and social justice. She is also the founder and medical director of the Northwest Institute on Intimacy which provides accredited clinical sexology training and supervision for therapists, educators, clergy, coaches, and medical providers in sexual health and confronting sexual bias. Dr. Tina’s revolutionary perspectives have been expressed on platforms such as Spirituality & Health, Refinery 29, Vocal, Medium and Bust Magazines, along with many podcast, radio, news, and TV interviews. Known for exposing the impact of patriarchy and sexual shame on our ability to securely attach to our partners, and instruct our children to attach to theirs, Dr. Sellers’ book Sex, God, & the Conservative Church – Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy has had a global impact. Her latest book, Shameless Parenting – Everything You Need to Raise Shame-free, Confident, Kids and Heal Your Shame Too! was a New Release Bestseller in eight categories. She speaks throughout the world on how to heal, and how to raise shame-free relationally confident children.
Sexual Health
Comprehensive sex education
Sexual biases
Professional ethics when not trained in a core area of the human experience
The range of sexual expression
How parental shame impacts a child's emotional, relational, and sexual development
The costs of living in a culture that is reactive to sexuality and provides no age appropriate life/relationship/sexuality skills to children as they grow.
How policies targeting the queer community hurts children, young adults, and their families
How America became sex negative, misogynistic, and sexually violent
The role Evangelical Christianity plays in increasing the prevalence of sexual dysfunction, and sexual assault and abuse
What needs to change in our schools and homes to reduce U.S. rape culture
1. How did you get in this line of work - sexual health and running an institute that targets and trains professionals in contexts like medicine, education, psychotherapy, coaching, and religion?
2. How did you get the idea for the two books you have written?
3. What golden nugget emerged that we can she share with our listeners?
4. What's has the response from the books been?
5. How prevalent is stigma and shame around sex in the US today? And if you can speak to this, what do we know about the stigma that exists specifically in conservatively religious families?
6. How does parental shame and ignorance affect a child's sexual development?
7. How can stigma around sex affect young adults and their willingness to seek out sexual health care?
8. What are the other harms of this stigma?
9. How can it actually be combatted? I'm wondering if things like comprehensive and inclusive sex education in schools or having a strong community outside of the family can make a difference? Are there other resources?
10. Do you think in general you're seeing an improvement in the stigma around sex? Does it depend on who you're talking about?
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10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_YxQsBYV4 11. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/255-sex-god-and-the-conservative-church/id1200938612?i=1000588372647 12. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-purity-culture-sexual-shame-w-dr-tina-schermer-sellers/id1516576461?i=1000588059381 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM32ILP4fzM 14. https://www.clubhouse.com/room/MwoNLZDY?utm_medium=ch_room_xerc&utm_campaign=mw7BwdZWYGi3_76rXxD5VA-40214 15. https://www.clubhouse.com/room/mJgrwzad?utm_medium=ch_room_xerc&utm_campaign=4iVmbLEgfsjuQQa9VdYYnQ-51283 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dklLrfBJyYInstagram, newsletter, Facebook, Linked-In