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George Faller [00:01:14]:
Laurie promised us, so here it is! The big O. Orgasm in the summer. Let’s talk about it.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:01:23]:
Ooh, Baby, Light My Fire is what I’m calling this one. Welcome to Foreplay sex therapy. I’m Dr. LaurieWatson, your sex therapist.

George Faller [00:01:34]:
And I’m George Faller, your couples therapist.

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George Faller [00:01:38]:
Our mission is to help couples talk about sex in ways that incorporate their body, their mind, and their hearts.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:01:46]:
And we have a little bit of fun doing it right, G?

George Faller [00:01:50]:
Listen, and let’s change some relationships. Baby, Light My Fire.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:01:53]:
Yeah, let’s talk about how to make it better for women. Then we can talk about how to make it better for…

George Faller [00:01:58]:
There’s not just women here. Laurie come on!

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:02:00]:
No, no, no, George. You’re going to tell us how to make it better for men next. Next episode. Okay?

George Faller [00:02:07]:
That’d be a quick episode.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:02:11]:
Okay. One of the things that I think is sad is that sometimes women don’t have big orgasms. And, you know, I don’t want to pressure women. I had talked to a girlfriend recently, and she was like, Laurie, you know, you’re talking about all this great stuff. And half the women I know have been traumatized sexually, and they’re overcoming all these difficulties. It’s like, are you caring for them, too? And I’m like, you’re right. You know, so we don’t. We don’t want to pressure people, but we do want to make space for those who are at a place in their sexual life that maybe they’re ready for new things.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:02:51]:
And this is kind of a Summer. Summer school.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:02:54]:
Right.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:02:55]:
Where school’s out. We’ve been doing the School of Love, and we just thought we need to spice it up for the summer and have a little bit of fun. It’s heavy work that we’re doing during the school year, and we’re going to finish our series come September. But right now we just thought, you know, there’s a lot of fun things that we need to talk about, and we will honor those of you, of course, who you’re not ready for this, and that’s okay.

George Faller [00:03:22]:
Well, and that’s part of the problem with people who just listen to a podcast. They don’t have the context. Right. So we spend a lot of time in vulnerability, a lot of time kind of seeing the opportunity and struggle and breaks and all these things, because we can find connection where most people find isolation. But the mission of this podcast is a little bit different than that. Right. We just want to have some summer lightness and some fun and, you know, so for people are in a place where they can do that and they can stretch themselves to have even better orgasms and know more about it. This one’s for you.

George Faller [00:03:56]:
And for those of you not there yet, well, we’re here for you, too. You’ll get your love.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:04:02]:
Yep. We’ll give you love. And we want to help you for sure. And I would say to all my sexual, pursuing male listeners, right, don’t set this as a goal for your partner. It’s like, maybe this is good information for you and maybe you can slip this in. But I would use this information carefully.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:04:24]:
So.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:04:25]:
But let’s have some fun. I mean, I think the first thing, if you’re a woman and. Or if you want to have a better orgasm, you need to kind of ask your partner for more touching. You know, George, for a woman, I don’t know if you know this, but orgasms are variable, so there’s more and less intense orgasms. My husband says that’s not true for men. I don’t. Do you think that men. It’s kind of the same every time or it varies.

George Faller [00:04:53]:
It’s a slight variation. There’s not a lot of rage between a great one and a good one. It’s, you know, we’re talking from, you know, an 8 to a 9 maybe on a scale. So I got a feeling yours are going to be from like 2 to 10 or something.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:05:10]:
Yeah, I think 2 to 11, but. All right.

George Faller [00:05:14]:
Thank you for correcting me.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:05:16]:
Yeah, no, it’s. No, I think it can be variable and, you know, many Times it has to do with our cycle and our mood and how much we give over to it. There’s a lot of the stars are aligned, if the stars are aligned. But I think one thing you can do is intentionally ask for more touching. And that can be many things. It can be oral sex. It can be, you know, just touching by hand. It can be toys.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:05:48]:
It can be vibration. It can be all kinds of things. But I think for a woman to build an orgasm that is better generally, and this is. This is not always true, but, I mean, sometimes a quick orgasm just surprises you out of the blue, and it’s just magnificent. But most of the time, a longer period of making love kind of builds. Builds it so that your orgasm is going to be bigger by the time you actually reach orgasm. And so the kids kind of talk about edging, right, where you. You get really aroused, and then you let your body settle down a little bit and get really aroused again and kind of stay on the edge.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:06:28]:
I used to call it baseball. You know, I. I’ve talked about that on the podcast a lot, like coming to the edge one, two times, and then the third time you just sort of let go.

George Faller [00:06:38]:
And I love the mindset in that because, you know, you’re going to have an orgasm. You’re just trying to make it bigger. So it’s. That’s very different in a lot of women who don’t know if they’re going to have an orgasm, right? It’s. They don’t want to mess with. If they can get it, they’re going to take it, right? They don’t want to lose it. So you got to have confidence to kind of edge, right, to be able to, like, yeah, I’m going to tease myself, I’m going to stop myself because I want it to be bigger. And there’s a confidence to that that comes, I think, over time.

George Faller [00:07:05]:
I just love, like, when you say these. These younger women that are doing this, like, the security that they have, the trust that they have because they’ve had so much success, you know, it shows itself in kind of how they’re sexually kind of showing up. And I just want to make room for a lot of women who. Who don’t have that confidence for good reasons. And, you know, the idea of stopping it when it rarely comes might sound like a crazy idea.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:07:28]:
Excellent point, Excellent point. I agree. I think that, you know, and many women choose a predictable pattern to reach orgasm. They don’t allow themselves variety because they don’t have confidence that, okay, my body will work in this position, or my body will. If we switch it up or if I let go for a little bit, or if we reduce it, the stimulation, then it won’t work. I think that is so true for women, George. And I think men do have often more confidence in their body. They often learn to masturbate in a variety of ways.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:08:04]:
Right.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:08:05]:
They’re lying in bed, they’re in the shower, they’re standing up, up, they’re sitting down. They’re, you know, I mean, the vast majority of women, this is. This will probably blow your mind, but the vast majority of women learn to masturbate on their bellies, kind of manipulating their labia over their clitoris. And it’s not really, you know, a position that lends to partnered sex, you know? You know, but that’s. It’s quiet, it’s secret, you know, and that’s kind of how they learn to reach orgasm. They’re not necessarily even touching their clitoris. They’re touching their labia.

George Faller [00:08:42]:
So, yeah, I had a guy tell me, you know, his wife had really big lips and. And she would always have her legs closed. And it’s like, you know, we can make fun of men. They don’t know where the clitoris is. Well, it’s sometimes not really that easy to find. You know, if it’s all covered up and your legs are closed and it’s dark and you just put your hand down there and it’s like, you know, this, it’s. It’s, you know, so we do need this communication. That’s why I love that you’re doing this, helping women like you.

George Faller [00:09:09]:
You gotta help your partner know how to touch you and.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:09:12]:
Yeah. And when to touch you and when you’re ready for it and.

George Faller [00:09:16]:
Right.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:09:17]:
Yeah. All of that so important. And. Yeah. And I. I feel for men that, you know, I don’t think there’s a lot of instruction. You know, we. We teach men where the ovaries are in school, you know, and what good is that? You know, maybe if we taught them where the clitoris was on a gr, you know, chart, it might make the world a happier place.

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George Faller [00:12:17]:
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George Faller [00:12:36]:
It’s a little bit different.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:12:38]:
Yeah. And so many women don’t want to show themselves either. You know, they’re anxious about that, about how they look and they don’t think they look right. They don’t think they look beautiful. Nobody’s maybe ever told them that. And not saying that men are not doing their job there, but maybe they haven’t seen, you know, they can’t compliment because they haven’t seen it. I mean, lots of people married for a real long time without, you know, maybe her showing her genitals. So it.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:13:07]:
It’s kind of mysterious.

George Faller [00:13:09]:
Mysterious. I. One of my friends say, you know, his wife didn’t shave. He said it was like going in the bush to cut through all. All this stuff to try to find the secret path. Right. So, like, anyway, we have these great adventures in a bedroom, don’t we?

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:13:28]:
Yes, it’s. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I. I could say a lot. And that. That’s another thing, right? Just. Oh, pubic hair.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:13:35]:
We need to do a whole episode on pubic hair. Interesting.

George Faller [00:13:39]:
I do love how you said there is no right or wrong. What turns you on? What turns you off. There’s so many different sizes and shapes and looks, and I think the more all of us hear the message, like, it’s good, right? It’s. What you have is good. It works. It’s. It’s healthy. It’s beautiful.

George Faller [00:13:57]:
Instead of always having these expectations that we’re supposed to be different than who we are.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:14:02]:
Yeah. I remember a girlfriend telling me about her boyfriend. This is. You know, I grew up maybe in a different era. Women were not shaving, and her boyfriend said, you know, he didn’t like the color of her hair and she didn’t have enough of it. And she was like, you know, I don’t know what to do about that. I’m a redhead, you know, so.

George Faller [00:14:24]:
And someone else that would have rocked their world, right?

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:14:27]:
That would have rocked their world. Yep.

George Faller [00:14:30]:
Okay, so back to orgasms.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:14:32]:
Back to orgasm. So basically, the start and stop does build kind of what we say, the vasocongestion platform, so more blood flow. So, like, as a woman gets aroused, her labia, her inner labia, the inner lips and her clitoris kind of get full of blood and actually become more findable for a guy. And you can see it better as.

George Faller [00:14:58]:
Well, which is another. Well, that’s another sign for men that if a woman has her legs closed, she’s probably not ready yet. Right. Men want to go so quick to stimulation. And you could have pain when you got. You’re not lubricated, you’re not ready. So, you know, listen, don’t take that as rejection. It’s just a woman saying, the time is not right yet.

George Faller [00:15:18]:
Trust. Trust that.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:15:20]:
Yeah. And I think most men, it’s okay to touch him sort of quickly, it feels good, but most women, it doesn’t feel good quickly. She’s got to be aroused and be there, maybe kissing and touching in other ways first.

George Faller [00:15:35]:
That damn patience thing again.

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George Faller [00:15:40]:
He’s teaching a lot of us.

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George Faller [00:17:37]:
All right, Laurie, tell us some more things.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:17:40]:
Okay, so there’s all these articles out there, George, that say building pelvic floor strength will make you have a better orgasm, which is totally not true. It’s not true.

George Faller [00:17:52]:
I’m doing my Kegel exercises right now. I’m not supposed to.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:17:55]:
Okay, well, Kegel exercises are still useful because it changes the way you can do a Kegel while you’re being stimulated in a variety of ways and it changes what you feel. So that tension that you bring can kind of push you toward orgasm. And then as you get higher and more aroused, relaxing actually changes the way the touch feels. So Playing with that is actually a great thing, you know, so, you know, maybe stimulating her G spot and having her squeeze your fingers and then relax, you know, that that can be a different sensation. And I think also, like squeezing your Kegels, it’s really hard to think about anything else. Like, I dare you to squeeze your Kegels and think about anything else. It’s like you’re just thinking about your genitals. You know, you can’t hold that squeeze and think about anything, but put you.

George Faller [00:18:52]:
In the present moment.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:18:53]:
In the present moment? Yeah. It brings you into the moment. And I think that kind of focus on your genitals and what you’re actually feeling is another way to build toward a great orgasm.

George Faller [00:19:08]:
But you were saying pelvic floor. I’m sorry, interrupted you. I thought they.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:19:11]:
No, it’s just. I mean, the pelvic floor is useful in the moment, but strengthening it doesn’t actually build a better orgasm. Okay, so does that make sense?

George Faller [00:19:22]:
But, yep.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:19:22]:
Tensing it and relaxing it is a way to play with sensation while you’re making love and build. And some women especially, I think when you’re like, ah, it’s not my night, and you have reached the point where you can be stimulated, your clitoris can be touched, like squeezing your Kegels. Great way to bring that focus that helps you get further with arousal. I think, too, like, just, you gotta use your brain. You gotta use your brain to focus on sexy thoughts. And it’s almost meditation, I think, George, because I too, like my. You know, I’m running a big company and my mind is filled with all the stuff I gotta do, and so I have to kind of excuse those thoughts and come back to the sexy thoughts of the moment. You have to, like, let go of the list, let go of all those other thoughts in order to let yourself be in the moment and build arousal and reach orgasm.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:20:26]:
You can’t be thinking about the stuff you gotta do.

George Faller [00:20:31]:
Yeah, I think it’s important and it’s. You’re talking about mindfulness, and most of us think about that in like a yoga position. Right. But you’re talking about adoring an orgasm. You gotta stop distracting thoughts and bring your brain back to the present moment into the physical sensation. And, you know, people that get disciplined at that, you know, find it easy and easier to do. And those people who lose and get distracted and can’t have an orgasm, they brings more pressure, more distracting thoughts. And it creates that kind of negative cycle that we talk about.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:21:04]:
And I would say one of the biggest Distracting thoughts that women have is, my body’s not good enough. You know, in some way, my breasts aren’t big enough, my breasts aren’t pert enough, my waist isn’t small enough. I don’t like my, the cellulite. I mean, whatever it is. Women just constantly think about this. And I don’t think most of their partners are thinking critical thoughts when they’re naked in bed with them.

George Faller [00:21:33]:
They had not.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:21:35]:
Say that again.

George Faller [00:21:36]:
They’re not. That’s. And that’s. That’s a big miss. Yeah, so that’s. It’s worth repeating. I mean, men have their own version of the same thing, but, you know, that’s a lonely thing when you’re facing fear but you’re not, your partner doesn’t know you’re facing fear. That’s a threat.

George Faller [00:21:56]:
And if you’re thinking, and my body is, I’m not attractive. And meanwhile your partner is perfectly attracted to you. Like we’re in different planets in that moment.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:22:05]:
Right, Right.

George Faller [00:22:06]:
So what do you do with that?

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:22:07]:
Yeah, I. I mean, I think.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:22:12]:
You.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:22:12]:
Know, I. I think you have to let yourself be loved. You know, you have to let it in. You have to let their attractiveness to you in inside, you know, so that it builds your confidence. And, And I think women are pressured by the media particularly. And now the social media pressure is just unbelievable. Right. There’s.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:22:38]:
There’s Instagram and Facebook and, you know, there’s just so much pressure about how you should look and everybody’s taking themselves at their best angle and I don’t know. And they’re Photoshop, Photoshopping photos and I don’t. It’s just, it’s unbelievable. And I think you have to. This is a part about a love relationship. You have to believe your partner when they say they’re attracted to you.

George Faller [00:23:04]:
Yeah, I always. In therapy, we’re constantly trying to get people to shift from self criticism to self compassion. Right. And sometimes simple mantras, you know, if you’re. If your critical brain says I’m not attractive, my body’s broken, then you gotta acknowledge that. And, you know, it’s trying to motivate you to change or work out or. You know, criticism’s always got to help a function. But we want to say, like, I don’t need that actually, here’s my mantra, that I’m beautiful or I’m good enough or my body’s healthy or that like, you gotta have something positive to say about you to kind of discharge that fear to get you back into the present moment.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:23:43]:
Right. Right. And you know how in our work, sometimes when somebody who’s like an emotional withdrawer, sometimes they’re an emotional withdrawer because they don’t feel love, but they also can’t take in love very much. And you’ll have them maybe put their hand on their body where they feel the bad feeling, and then have their partner put their hand on that part of the body and then ask them, you know, can you take in your partner’s love? It’s the same sort of thing here. It’s like, we have to. Let’s do this in stage two. George. This is just a little side note, kids, but we gotta get people to take in this part in stage two, that their partner loves them and loves their body and is attracted to their body.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:24:27]:
That. That’s powerful medicine, you know, to know that, to believe that and to become free in that, you know, it releases inhibition. It’s like, we don’t actually. Nobody has a perfect body and is having sex. Nobody has that. And if they do, it’s like one in a billion. So.

George Faller [00:24:47]:
Oh, and we’re giving you two tools to deal with that hole, right? That hole in the middle of sex. The fear says, I’m unattractive. My body’s broken. How could that not kind of interfere with sex? So you could learn to kind of shift that within yourself and say, hey, no, actually, I’m hot and my body works perfectly fine. Like, you try to have compassion for your body instead of the criticism, or you invite your partner to kind of refute the lie that you believe. You know, you think you’re not attractive. Have your partner say, no, I am attractive. And look at my eyes.

George Faller [00:25:22]:
Can you see in my eyes? I’m attracted to you? Like, the truth is right there. Take that in. Right. There are two ways of kind of challenging some of these lies.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:25:33]:
Exactly, exactly. So use the brain. Use your partner’s eyes and what they’re saying to you. Take that in. Use meditation to just to sweep away those distracting, critical thoughts. Because the more you enter your body, the bigger you can actually experience orgasm, the more pleasure you can feel. So I wanted to talk about another thing. A girlfriend of mine talked about having orgasms.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:26:05]:
And she said, you know, I get the inkling that tonight is the night. So she’s not really fully aroused. She’s not close to orgasm. But she said it’s like I. My body sends the signal, and then I send back another signal to my body that says, let’s go with this. Like, I want to let go. And it’s this two way kind of communication that the second signal is saying I’m going to surrender to this. So it’s real permission giving that she’s giving her body, yes, I will give into this.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:26:38]:
And then it’s almost like she said it’s like it blooms open. And I just thought that was a beautiful way to describe surrender.

George Faller [00:26:47]:
Nice.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:26:48]:
I mean first of all, noting that, you know, there is this moment that her body is coming online and she waits for that and then as soon as she feels that it’s like, ah, this is it and she kind of leans into it.

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I think a lot.

George Faller [00:28:36]:
Of men can learn from women in this area. I’m always impressed that a lot of women can have a great sexual experience without having an orgasm, right? If you know you could have a good experience even without the orgasm, it does take some pressure off and you’re just adding another element to this this ability to surrender, to just see what happens to your body, to be curious Yourself, Right. You feel like something good could happen, and let’s see if it does happen. Right? That, that, that. That. That’s pretty cool.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:29:07]:
Yeah, it is cool.

George Faller [00:29:09]:
Sometimes I wish I was a woman to see what it was like to do that.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:29:13]:
Well, trust me, sometimes I. I would like to be a man too, just to see what that’s like.

George Faller [00:29:19]:
On Next Life.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:29:21]:
Next Life, try a vibrator. If you haven’t tried a vibrator, please try a vibrator to reach orgasm. You know, even if you’re reaching orgasm without it, maybe this makes it more powerful. I mean, wouldn’t you say? George, everybody’s got to try a vibrator at least once.

George Faller [00:29:40]:
I mean, this is what we tell therapists all the time. I mean, this is probably the. The quickest you want to make a change in a couple sex life. I can’t tell you how many couples lives have changed because of a vibrator.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:29:52]:
I know.

George Faller [00:29:52]:
It just kind of pretty. Pretty important.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:29:56]:
When I was a new sex therapist, I, you know, would have women come in that had never had an orgasm, ever, even by themselves. And I would often want them to teach themselves to have an orgasm with their own hands because it kind of integrated their genitals with their whole body image. And it is a great way. But I talked to a physical therapist, a woman’s health physical therapist, and she’s like, lori, just have them use a vibrator. Then at least they know what they’re going for. I’m like, you’re right. That’s much smarter. Let’s do that.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:30:27]:
So ever since then, I’ve recommended vibrators for women who are not having orgasms. So another trick is right before orgasm, adding additional stimulation can sort of make it pop. So French kissing, like a really deep kiss. Anal stimulation. You know, some women don’t like anal sex. I’m not even talking about that. I’m just talking about stimulation right around the anus or nipple stimulation, even your butt being grabbed. Like all of that sort of extra stimulation can.

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George Faller [00:31:05]:
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Dr. Laurie Watson [00:31:08]:
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Dr. Laurie Watson [00:31:10]:
I think the extra is that she likes. Definitely go for that. Yeah, I would say the last thing is you gotta give in to the vocalization. So, like, when you have an orgasm, there’s sort of like a scream inside or there’s a. There’s a moan. There’s something inside because it’s part of your body’s reaction. And so you have to, like, give in to that because if you stifle the vocalization, whatever it is that you want to say when you cry out or just if you. You know, you might not even have a word, but if you stifle that, it.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:31:47]:
I think it actually reduces the power of the orgasm. So, you know, maybe you only get to a 7 instead of an 11.

George Faller [00:31:55]:
Hey, any numbers? Better than nothing, right?

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:31:58]:
Absolutely. Absolutely.

George Faller [00:32:00]:
Well, this is our hope for you all in the summer. Fun orgasms are important. It’s not the whole damn point, but it’s important. And if you could have more of them, a better than better ones, why not try? Why not have conversations to see what you can do? And this is the time of year to play around with that. We have a little bit more sunlight. We have a little bit more time to play. We have a little bit more time to relax. This is the best setting to try to have a little bit more orgasms.

George Faller [00:32:26]:
And hey, if you want them to be mutual, give that a shot, too.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:32:30]:
Oh, yeah. Okay. Thanks for listening.

George Faller [00:32:34]:
Keep it hot, y’all.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:32:35]:
So some of you are interested in our work. We want to tell you where we are, what we’re doing. First thing is our couples retreat coming up in October, right, George?

George Faller [00:32:44]:
October 4th. Yes. Online. This is a chance to just spend a little time with your partner. We guarantee you’re going to kind of come out of that, trading with more things to talk about sexually.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:32:56]:
Yep. And we’ve got an early bird special right now, so take us up on it and join us for a day of talking about sex.

George Faller [00:33:02]:
And for therapists, we have two trainings coming up. We have one in September, 18 to 20 in Las Vegas, where Lori and I will just be kind of brainstorming and really pushing the leading edges of kind of EFT and the sexual cycle. We’re excited about that. And then in January 23rd to 25th, we’re coming to Nashville in person to do three days of really kind of breaking down this process. And again, I think this should be mandatory for all therapists to just kind of have more confidence in knowing what to do and work with the sexual cycle.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:33:35]:
Yeah, we’ve already had lots of signups for that. By the way, George, people are also taking advantage of that early bird special. You know, we want supervisors to come. We’re giving half off to the supervisors. So please join us so that we can kind of get on the same page and understand and develop EFT further. There’s going to be two days of lecture and exercises, and then a day maybe with a live and, you know, working on your tapes and your stuck places and we’re going to go down to the honky tonk and have dinner together and have some fun.

George Faller [00:34:09]:
Have some fun.

Dr. Laurie Watson [00:34:10]:
Have some fun. Yeehaw.

George Faller [00:34:11]:
Yeehaw. And for all you listeners, again, if you have a community and you want Laurie and I to come out and give a specialized training on sex, and again, I think this is so important for anybody seeing couples, then, you know, reach out to us and let’s continue to spread this message. Yeehaw.

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