This book gives readers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of how anxiety, stress, and pressure can have a profound impact on pleasure, connection, and sexual functioning, offering practical tips and techniques for resolving common sexual struggles. Anxiety can influence a multitude of aspects that make us who we are, changing how we move through, make meaning of, and interact with the world around us. Paula Leech begins by defining anxiety and how it affects our physiology before guiding readers to identify some of the primary sources of anxiety in their lives, such as family, gender, culture, religion, relationship dynamics, and sexual trauma. Encouraging clients to take responsibility, she offers alternative ways of conceptualizing and defining sex, sexuality, sexual values, and a client’s ongoing sexual development as a way of addressing some of the emotional, social, and psychological barriers to intimacy. Practical and engaging, this book includes mindfulness and embodiment exercises to help clients release stored tension, work through specific sexual struggles and “dysfunctions,” and deepen their connections with their body. This guide is essential reading for established and training sex therapists as well as for those who experience anxiety-based sexual challenges with their partner.

Many do not know how they unknowingly are sabotaging their own sexual relationships. However, the truth is millions of men self-sabotage their relationships with women due to Sexual Performance Anxiety. To be honest, performance anxiety can only be resolved when you understand why it's happening. Realistically, it can literally shut down your body. For millions of people sex is a very stressful and anxious experience. This can manifest in many ways, such as complete avoidance of intimacy, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, panic attacks and more. This book will show men and women how to cure themselves of this terrible affliction which denies them one of the greatest experiences known to mankind which is, amazing sex!! You will be astounded when you discover how to get past sexual anxiety easily by reviving your potency. You will again appreciate those much-anticipated moments of sexual gratification you once had and again; want for both you and your partner. Here you can learn how to overcome your sexual anxiety about being intimate and get back to a normal relationship with your significant other. Find out how you can achieve this right NOW. Reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on a rejuvenated path toward healthy, pleasure-oriented great sex.

In this straightforward and practical book, Zimmerman explains that our expectations set us up for a sense of failure. Once sex is synonymous with disappointment, avoidance sets in and creates pressure in the bedroom. She guides us to change our mindset and practice a step-by-step program out of the vicious cycle of avoidance and pressure into the possibility of a thriving sex life.

This book, in a step-by-step progression, shows a better way to breaking the cycle and cultivating better relationships. It teaches women how to recognize when they are in a Sextimacy event as opposed to the beginning of a mutually fulfilling relationship that won't leave them racked with morning-after regrets.

Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman. Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep because your brain won’t stop recycling thoughts? Unable to make a decision because you're too afraid you’ll make the wrong one? You’re not alone. In Hi, Anxiety, beloved food writer, editor, and commentator Kat Kinsman expands on the high profile pieces she wrote for CNN.com about depression, and its wicked cousin, anxiety. Taking us back to her adolescence, when she was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, Kat speaks eloquently with pathos and humor about her skin picking, hand flapping, “nervousness” that made her the recipient of many a harsh taunt. With her mother also gripped by depression and health issues throughout her life, Kat came to live in a constant state of unease—that she would fail, that she would never find love . . . that she would end up just like her mother. Now, as a successful media personality, Kat still battles anxiety every day. That anxiety manifests in strange, and deeply personal ways. But as she found when she started to write about her struggles, Kat is not alone in feeling like the simple act of leaving the house, or getting a haircut can be crippling. And though periodic medication, counseling, a successful career and a happy marriage have brought her relief, the illness, because that is what anxiety is, remains. Exploring how millions are affected anxiety, Hi, Anxiety is a clarion call for everyone—but especially women—struggling with this condition. Though she is a strong advocate for seeking medical intervention, Kinsman implores those suffering to come out of the shadows—to talk about their battle openly and honestly. With humor, bravery, and writing that brings bestsellers like Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson to mind, Hi, Anxiety tackles a difficult subject with amazing grace.

Offers a program for overcoming erectile dysfunction that includes assessment, treatment strategies, and a relapse prevention program.

Stop Anxiety Dead in Its Tracks & Become the Confident, Emotionally Secure, & Positive Person You’re Always Meant to Be! Do you fear change, or worry that your partner might leave you one day? Do your palms sweat whenever your partner asks you to take things to the next level? Do you find your mind constantly spinning its wheels and not really going anywhere? Anxiety arises from a feeling of discomfort as you step into unfamiliar territory. One of the biggest mistakes you make when it comes to achieving what you want in life, or succeeding in your relationships, is setting the bar too low. You may think, “Low expectations are good. They are comfortable. And they keep me from taking dangerous risks.” Everyone fears what they do not know and avoid feeling uncomfortable any chance they get. As soon as you’re called to level up, your self-doubt starts creeping in and turns into fear, making you back away from an opportunity that could possibly change your life for the best, whether it’s in the area of work, relationships, or daily life. While stability and comfort protect you from rejection and failure in the short-term, they also prevent you from truly growing in the long-term. In order for you to reach your life goals, you must be prepared for discomfort. Otherwise, you will just stay where you've always been and stagnate. And you don’t want that, do you? Of course you don’t! No one wants to stay fearful, unconfident, depressed, or jealous! That’s why Lily Andrew’s book, “Anxiety in Relationships & Overcome Anxiety”, is here to help you eliminate your negative thinking patterns, so you can overcome anxiety, depression, fear, panic attacks, worry, shyness, jealousy, anxious attachment, and couple conflicts… so that you can finally live the life you want and have the relationship of your dreams! Over the course of this life-changing guide, you will: Make Permanent Mindset Changes to remove anxiety while replacing it with radiating confidence and positive energy without drugs or medication Skyrocket Your Social Confidence and bring the right friends, business connections, and romantic relationships in your life Thrive in a Nurturing Relationship by growing together as individuals while removing negative patterns, anxiety, and jealousy Develop Clear Communication about any topic without feeling insecure or judged by the other person for your feelings and emotions And so much more! Anxiety in relationships and your personal life is normal. A big part of growth is taking chances and embracing new opportunities, despite the fear, shyness, panic attacks, worry, jealousy, and all other negative emotions that consume you. In this guide, you will only get information gleaned from hundreds of research done on overcoming anxiety, so that you can become a better partner as well as a better, more confident, and more secure person! Take back control and overcome your anxiety today!

Interweaving interviews with clinical psychologists, a psychiatrist, a sexologist, relationship experts and real-life couples throughout, this memoir-driven self-help book explores the complex connection between brain and heart, helping readers feel better prepared to tackle dating and relationships with more confidence and less worry

Renowned sex therapist Ian Kerner shares the unique and indispensable methodology he uses to help thousands of couples get unstuck and into sexual sync. Dr. Ian Kerner is a Sherlock Holmes of the bedroom—a sexual detective helping individuals and couples solve the mystery of their sexual distress. His secret weapon? Anaylzing your “sex script.” Kerner takes a magnifying glass to a recent sexual event, examining the entire sequence of interactions—beginning, middle, and end—from multiple angles. In those details—the what, where, when, and why of the last time you had sex—all the clues of what went wrong are revealed and the mystery of how to create mutual pleasure can be solved. When our sex scripts work, we lose ourselves in mutual pleasure; but when they fail, it’s all we can do not to ruminate over the details. What can be learned by looking at your sex life in action? With wit and warmth, the nationally recognized sex therapist and author of the smash hit She Comes First shows readers how to tap into their erotic personalities and realize their sexual potential. Dr. Kerner provides the tools and techniques you need to assess, fix, and expand your sex scripts, as well as discuss many common sexual problems that get in the way of happy endings. With the help of decades of clinical insight, the latest sexual science and research, valuable homework assignments, case studies, and more, this insightful and original book strips away discomfort and offers couples not just the ability to talk about sex, but the ability to actually do something about it.

"In clear language and conceptualization and through the liberal use of case material from therapy sessions, the authors show how individuals can be helped to overcome these challenges and become physically and emotionally closer to their partners."--BOOK JACKET.