{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Raising Shame\u2011Free, Pleasure\u2011Positive Children Begins at Birth with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers","description":"What if preparing for birth could also prepare you for a lifetime of deeper intimacy, healing, and connection\u2014for you and for your children? In this powerful conversation, Debra talks with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, internationally recognized sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, bestselling author of Sex, God, and the Conservative Church and Shameless Parenting, and founder of Inanna Rising. Together, they explore how sexual shame shows up in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and how embracing pleasure can transform not just your birth, but your whole family\u2019s story. Dr. Tina shares her own birth story of a fast, \u201cbig baby\u201d delivery that made her appreciate just how much birth asks of our bodies and hearts. She then breaks down how early and deep shame takes root\u2014many girls start modifying their diets as young as six\u2014and why pregnancy often brings those old stories to the surface. You\u2019ll hear practical, compassionate steps to begin \u201creparenting\u201d yourself, shedding inherited shame, and raising confident, body\u2011positive, pleasure\u2011literate kids, starting from birth. Along the way, Debra and Tina invite you to honor your unique body, your unique baby, and the profound truth that there has never been a human exactly like either of you. In this episode, you\u2019ll learn: How pregnancy and birth can surface long\u2011held stories of body shame and \u201cnot enoughness,\u201d and why that\u2019s actually an invitation to healing. Why culture profits from women and birthing people feeling \u201cnot good enough,\u201d and how that affects how we see our pregnant and postpartum bodies. How embracing pleasure and your five senses in pregnancy can positively impact labor, bonding, and the way you welcome your baby. The heartbreaking research on how early body shame begins\u2014and how to interrupt that cycle for your children. A simple, powerful first step Dr. Tina recommends if you\u2019re pregnant and recognizing you\u2019ve been carrying shame for a long time. How to use Shameless Parenting even if you don\u2019t have children\u2014to gently reparent yourself, stage by stage, and let shame \u201cdrip off.\u201d Why postpartum is a year\u2011long physiological and emotional transition, and how to honor your needs alongside your baby\u2019s. The importance of postpartum support and \u201cwise elder women,\u201d from doulas to community, to help normalize your experience. How Dr. Tina defines sexuality as sharing connection and pleasure\u2014not just behaviors\u2014and why transactional sex leaves our hearts out of the picture. How her books and her work at Inanna Rising are helping people heal religious and cultural sexual shame and reclaim joyful intimacy.   Resources mentioned: Pleasurable Birth Essentials online childbirth class with Debra: https:\/\/www.orgasmicbirth.com\/pleasurable-birth-essentials Shameless Parenting: Everything You Need to Raise Shame\u2011Free, Confident Kids and Heal Your Shame Too \u2013 Tina Schermer Sellers Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy \u2013 Tina Schermer Sellers Dr. Tina\u2019s website: https:\/\/tinaschermersellers.com Dr. Tina on Instagram: @drtinashameless\u200b Inanna Rising (psychedelic\u2011assisted therapy community): https:\/\/inannarising.org Inanna Rising on Instagram: @inanna_rising_pat\u200b   Dr. Tina also shares that if you cannot afford her books, you can DM her on Instagram to request a promo code for an audio version.   Connect with Debra & Orgasmic Birth: Learn more and join Pleasurable Birth Essentials: https:\/\/www.orgasmicbirth.com\/pleasurable-birth-essentials Website: https:\/\/www.orgasmicbirth.com\u200b Instagram: @orgasmicbirth Are you ready to transform childbirth into an empowering, pleasurable, joyful experience? My online course, Pleasurable Birth Essentials, gives you the tools and confidence to make labor something to celebrate. You\u2019ll learn comfort techniques, embrace your body\u2019s natural rhythms, and discover how to invite pleasure\u2014yes, even orgasm\u2014into birth. Join thousands of parents who call this class birth\u2011 and life\u2011changing at orgasmicbirth.com\/pleasurable-birth-essentials.\u200b ","author_name":"Orgasmic Birth","author_url":"https:\/\/www.orgasmicbirth.com\/","html":"