Making Love

In this show Colette will talk about low sexual desire in men. She will explore biological, psychological, relationship, and sexual development factors that impact sexual desire in men. Colette will interview a young woman who is married to a man with low sexual desire. Colette will give advice about what this couple can do. Colette will also interview Jeff Pollock, PA, who specializes in hormone therapy. He will talk about which hormones affect sexual desire in men, and what can be done hormonally to help men revive their sexual desire.

In today’s show I’ll be talking to you about libido, what it really is, and what factors impact it. We’ll talk about what factors turn on your libido, and what factors turn it off.

In this show Colette will talk about the challenges of couples who struggle with mismatched libidos. In particular she will address the challenges of a low-drive female with a high-drive male. She will talk about how hormones impact male and female sexuality. Colette will help couples see what they can do have a great love life in spite of their hormonal differences.

In this show Colette will interview Andrea Miller, about her new book: Radical Acceptance: The Secret to Happy, Lasting Love. They will talk about the transformative power of unconditional love in a couple’s relationship. Andrea is the founder and CEO of YourTango, the leading online magazine dedicated to love and relationships. She has been featured frequently in the media, including multiple appearances on The Today Show, The Early Show, Better TV, CNN, E!, Fox News, ABC, and radio stations across the U.S., as well as in national publications such as USA Today, The Huffington Post, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.

In this show Colette will interview Michele Weiner-Davis about her new book: Healing From Infidelity. They will talk about how couples can mend their marriages and rebuild trust after the devastation of an affair. . Michele is an internationally renowned relationship expert, best-selling author, marriage therapist, and professional speaker. Michele was among the first in her field to courageously speak out about the pitfalls of unnecessary divorce. She has been passionate about helping couples save their marriages for over 3 decades. Michele is the author of seven other books including the bestselling, Divorce Busting and The Sex-Starved Marriage. Her TEDx talk on The Sex-Starved Marriage has been viewed by over 2 million people. Michele's work has been featured in every major newspaper and magazine. She has been a frequent guest on Oprah, 48 Hours, CBS This Morning, The Today show, Good Morning America and 20/20.

In this show Colette will interview Sheri Winston, author of the award winning book: Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure. This book is packed full of important information on female anatomy and arousal that most people don’t know about. Sheri also has a new book out entitled: Succulent SexCraft: Your Hands-On Guide to Erotic Play and Practice. If you want to understand female sexuality, you have to listen to this show. Sheri Winston, CNM, RN, BSN, LMT, is a sex teacher and “sexpert” whose classes and workshops are celebrated for their humor, comfort, and the superb quality of the information. Winston’s unique perspective, which she calls Wholistic Sexuality, is derived from decades of experience as a certified nurse-midwife, a gynecology practitioner, registered nurse, holistic healer, childbirth educator, massage therapist and student of the esoteric erotic arts. She is the founder and executive director of The Center for the Intimate Arts.

In this show Colette will interview Dr. Greg Baer, author of Real Love in Marriage. Unconditional love is what we all seek, but most of us have never really experienced it. Early on we learn that love is conditional: that people give us love and approval when we do what they want, and when we don’t, they love us less. From this we’ve learned to settle for Imitation Love. Real love is caring about the happiness of another person without any thought for what we might get. We’ll learn that although most of us marry for the purpose of receiving love, marriage is actually an opportunity to give love unconditionally. Giving and receiving Real Love is the only way to experience lasting happiness. Dr. Baer will discuss how many people expect sex to create love in a relationship, but sex cannot create Real Love. Building Real Love in a marriage, on the other hand, guarantees the best sex imaginable. Sex is a wonderful addition to marriage, but sex can never be a substitute for Real Love.

In this show Colette will interview Dr. Diana Hoppe, award-winning author of the book: Healthy Sex Drive, Healthy You. Dr. Hoppe is a board-certified OB/GYN in Encinitas, California. Diana has been called the “Hormone Queen” because of her success in helping women turn up their sex drive by balancing and optimizing their hormones. Dr. Hoppe will talk about why sex is so important to a woman’s health and well-being. She will explain how a woman’s sexual desire is impacted by puberty, menstrual cycle phases, pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause. She will address how stress, birth control, illness, and medications affect libido and what women can do to reduce the impact of these challenges and keep their sex drives up. Diana will explain how differences in the male and female brain set men and women sexually at odds, but she’ll also tell us how to manage these differences, and how to get the fire of sexual connection blazing again.

In this show Colette will interview hormone specialist, Jeff Pollock, PA-C. Jeff will teach us how hormones affect our sexuality. We will learn which hormones affect sexual desire; arousal and erections; and orgasm and ejaculation. We will learn how to determine if our hormones are deficient or out of balance. Most important Jeff will teach us what can be done to get our hormones at optimal levels so we can have best-possible sexual functioning.

In this show Colette will interview Dr. Mark Malan, about how he helps couples heal the hurt and disconnection that results from psychosexual shame. Shame is the most damaging emotion couples can experience. It can trigger anger, fear, resentment, depression and anxiety. It is the root cause of many mental health disorders, addictions and sexual dysfunction. Unhealed shame often leads to affairs and divorce. Dr. Malan defines and describes what shame is and distinguishes it from guilt. He explains how couples inadvertently contaminate their relationships by using shame to manipulate and control their partner in order to feel safe. He then describes what to do to avoid shame in communication and heal the damage it causes. We will discuss alternative healthy ways that couples can ask for what they want in their relationship without damaging their partner’s self-worth.

In today’s show we are going to discuss the topic of adult children of emotionally immature parents and how this can affect a person’s marriage and sexuality. Featured on this show is Dr. Lindsay Gibson, the author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. We also bring on a woman who has had personal experience in being raised by immature parents. She will share how this has affected her marriage and sexuality.

In this show Colette will be interviewing Dr. Lindsay Gibson, author of the ground-breaking article: “What sex means to a man”. Men are often inaccurately seen as only caring about sex at the expense of real love. Dr. Gibson points out that for men sex is the deepest level of intimacy and connection he can experience with the woman he loves. Women get emotional intimacy through talking. Men don’t’ have societal permission to talk about their feelings, so they express their loving feelings, not through words, but through the experience of sex.

In this show we will talk about how crucial good sex is to keeping the love alive in an intimate relationship. We’ll also examine how essential real love is to good sex. Colette will interview a couple who have an exceptionally loving relationship due, in part, to their frequent sexual intimacy, and also because of their commitment to prioritizing really loving each other.