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79. You're Not Broken, You're Empty: The Real Reason You Don't Want Sex (with Dr. Emma Smith)

You love your partner. Your life looks solid from the outside. And somewhere along the way, you stopped wanting sex — and started telling yourself that's just what happens to busy, high-achieving women in midlife. I believed that too. Then my favorite sex therapist sat down across from me and said the sentence that reframes everything: you're not broken — you're empty. And those are completely different problems.

What you'll hear:

🔥 Why the exact qualities that built your career and your family are the ones flatlining your desire — and the wall every woman eventually hits

🔥 The scheduled-sex lie: why "put it on the calendar" is corporate maintenance work, and what actually reawakens wanting

🔥 Dr. Emma's Want-It-Back ladder — the 5-second coffee-and-shower practice that rebuilds arousal before desire (yes, it starts that small)

🔥 The one question that changes everything about initiation: "How do you want to feel at the end of this encounter?"

🔥 Inside Desire Recalibration — the arrive → attune → reignite → anchor roadmap for couples who still love each other but lost the erotic thread

The framework: This episode lives in The Reclamation — taking back your desire, your pleasure, and your right to want, for yourself first.

About Dr. Emma Smith: Dr. Emma Smith is a sex therapist and researcher, and the creator of Desire Recalibration, a roadmap for couples rebuilding their erotic connection inside real life — dirty dishes, soccer practice, and all. She's also co-leading our free Better Sex masterclass with Alex West and I on August 14.

🎟 Free masterclass — August 14: Join Dr. Emma, Alex West, and I for a free workshop on everything in this episode — and bring your partner. Save your seat: https://soliloquie.myflodesk.com/rebellion

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