Welcome to Episode 449 of the Sexology Podcast! Today, I’m excited to be joined by Jackie Goldschneiderwho speaks to me about eating disorders, body image, recovery, and how all of this intersects with sexuality and pleasure.

In this conversation, Jackie shares the raw, unglamorized realities of living with anorexia for two decades, much of it while in the public eye. We explore her “inherited food trauma,” the cultural pressure of the 90s, and how secrecy, rules, and constant tracking kept her illness alive. Jackie opens up about the pivotal moment at 45 when health scares and a second rock bottom pushed her to choose recovery, tell her husband, and assemble a true treatment team to address the mental, physical, and emotional layers of healing.

Jackie Goldschneider is an author, activist, speaker and a longtime cast member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Before joining the show, Jackie was an attorney and freelance journalist, and has contributed extensively to publications including Good Housekeeping, HuffPost and Scary Mommy, and wrote a weekly parenting column for New Jersey's The Record newspaper for several years. Her debut memoir, The Weight of Beautiful, was published by ‎Simon and Schuster in September 2023. Since then, Jackie has been a nationally recognized advocate for eating disorder recovery.

In this episode, you will hear:

· Inherited Food Trauma And Early Body Shame

· Fifteen Years Of Anorexia Hidden In Plain Sight

· Strategic Eating To Outsmart Cameras And Castmates

· Recovery As A Lifelong, Nonlinear Commitment

· Malnutrition’s Toll On Hormones, Estrogen, And Libido

· Therapy, Dietitian, And MD: A Three-Person Care Team

· Boundaries Around Body And Food Comments Are Essential

· Reclaiming Pleasure, Playfulness, And Nakedness In Sex

· Breaking Secrecy By Confiding In A Loved One

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Welcome to Episode 448 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I’m excited to be joined by Dr. Kate Balestrieri, who speaks to me about navigating low desire and reigniting intimacy in long‑term relationships.

In this conversation, Kate and I normalize the reality that everyone, including sex therapists, experiences fluctuations in sexual desire. She shares the multifaceted story behind her own temporary drop in libido, touching on burnout, perimenopause, pandemic stress, and relationship “growing pains.”

Dr. Kate Balestrieri, Psy.D is a Licensed Psychologist (Clinical and Forensic) in CA, FL, NY and IL. She is a Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist – Supervisor, and PACT III trained couples’ therapist.

The Founder of Modern Intimacy, a nationwide therapy practice, Dr. Balestrieri is a passionate advocate for mental, relational and sexual health. Throughout her work, Dr. Balestrieri focuses on helping people build resilience and recovery from what ails them to move from a position of pain or discomfort to one of thriving, holistically in their lives. Dr. Balestrieri is the author of What Happened to My Sex Life? A Sex Therapist’s Guide to Reclaiming Lost Desire, Connection and Pleasure, and is the host of the Get Naked with Dr. Kate podcast.

In this episode, you will hear:

· Normalizing Fluctuating Desire

· Multifaceted Roots Of Low Libido

· Love–Lust Divide In Long‑Term Bonds

· Stress And Burnout As Desire Dampeners

· Role Of Novelty And Mystery

· Dangers Of Obligatory Or “Pity” Sex

· The 30% Orgasm Gap Explained

· Embodiment And Pleasure Practices

· Rekindling Passion With Intentional Effort

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Welcome to Episode 447 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I’m excited to be joined by Dr. Patti Britton, who speaks to me about her new memoir Chasing Sex, the life events that shaped her as a pioneer in sex coaching, and how we can all cultivate pleasure and transcendent intimacy at any age.

In this heartfelt conversation, Patti traces the winding path from her “little girl named Patti” to the globally known “Dr. Patti.” She opens up about the matriarchs who modeled sexual confidence, the traumas she survived, and the counter-culture influences that called her to sexology. You’ll hear how writing her memoir became a race against time to preserve her stories, and why she now gifts readers “52 Lessons for Life” drawn from those pages.

Dr. Patti Britton is a nationally board-certified, world recognized Clinical Sexologist, known as the “Mother of Sex Coaching”. She’s the author of hundreds of articles, book chapters, forewords, and five major books in sexology. She is a proud member of the LA writers’ community, having studied Method Writing for over 20 years. She is published in several anthologies with a variety of her stories. Her memoir, Chasing Sex, Wanting Love, Finding Myself was released in 2024 from Balboa Press.

In this episode, you will hear:

· Dr. Patti Britton’s Matriarchal Role Models

· From Trauma to Thriving: Finding an Authentic Sexual Voice

· Why She Wrote Chasing Sex in Her Seventies

· Pleasure Framed as a Fundamental Human Right

· The Five-Level Touch Continuum Explained

· Transcendent Sex vs. “Good Enough” Sex

· Aging, Orgasm, and Embracing New Erotic Scripts

· Tips for Men: Shift From Performance to Sensation

· Keeping Desire Alive Through Novelty and Play

· Patti’s Free “52 Lessons for Life” and Ongoing Legacy

It’s back, our L.A. Love Lab – Matchmaking Event! Happening Saturday, October 4, 2025 in Manhatten Beach, California with Dr. Moali and Dr. E…we hope you can join us and let us work our matchmaking magic on you!

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