Sexy After 50: Improve Sex & Intimacy by Healing Your Nervous System
Sexy After 50 is the podcast for women over 50 who are done pretending they don't miss feeling turned on, confident, and alive in their bodies.
If sex feels confusing, inconsistent, painful, or nonexistent… If your desire went quiet and no one ever explained why… If you're tired of being told it's "just hormones" or that this is "normal aging"… you're in the right place.
I'm Dr. Julie Merriman, licensed therapist, nervous-system specialist, and Neuro-Sensual Authority, and this show is about waking up what never left.
Each episode explores how intimacy, sex, pleasure, and desire after 50 are shaped not just by hormones, but by your nervous system, the emotional labor you carry, your relationship with your body, and a lifetime of putting everyone else first. We go beneath surface-level sex tips and into somatic healing, chakra psychology, and nervous-system regulation, grounded in Polyvagal Theory and the science of responsive desire, so your body can feel safe enough to want again.
This is for women navigating:
- Low libido and lost desire
- Painful or disconnected sex
- Sexless marriage or mismatched desire
- Body changes and feeling disconnected from yourself
- Hormonal changes
- Feeling invisible, unwanted, or alone
Sexy After 50 shows you how to reboot pleasure, intimacy, connection, and aliveness without forcing yourself, fixing yourself, or faking desire. Because you were never broken. You were tamed.
Your fire never left. It went underground into protection. And we're waking it up: gently, powerfully, and on your terms.
If your body is saying, "Yes, this is what I've been needing to hear," download the Desire Reset Guide™ at www.juliemerrimanphd.com/desire, a free, nervous-system-based practice designed to bring desire and aliveness back from shutdown.
This podcast is for women over 50 navigating low desire, sexual disconnection, and body changes who want nervous-system-informed insight into libido, aliveness, intimacy, and embodied pleasure so they can move from tamed and underground to rebooted, alive, and unapologetically hungry.
Sexy After 50: Improve Sex & Intimacy by Healing Your Nervous System
Latest Episodes
The Neuroscience of That Low-Belly Pull and Three Ways to Bring It Back This Weekend
You remember what it felt like to want someone so much your body made the decision before your brain did. That low-belly pull. That heat. That yes before you even thought about it. If that feeling has gone quiet — not gone, just quiet — this Fr...
Sex Feels Like Nothing. Your Pelvic Floor Knows Why.
What if low desire, painful sex, and feeling nothing during intimacy have nothing to do with your hormones — and everything to do with your pelvic floor holding your nervous system's unfinished business? Dr. Juls draws the triangle no one has d...
Why Sex Hurts After 50 (And the Weekend Fix Your Doctor Never Mentioned)
If you have been quietly working around discomfort during sex and telling yourself it's just age, just your body, just the way things are now — this episode is going to reframe everything. Pain during intimacy is not a character flaw. It is not...
How to Give a Blow Job When You're in Your Head About It. The Nervous System Guide to Confidence, Presence, and Technique for Women Over 50
You are not bad at this. You are anxious about this. And your nervous system — the same one running your stress response, your sleep, your mood, and your desire — does not know the difference between a threat in the wild and the fear of being s...
Your Orgasm Isn't Gone. Shame Stole It.
You were right there, something was actually building, and then your brain hijacked the whole thing and you left your own body. If that has ever happened to you, this episode is not a coincidence. Shame is not a feeling. It is a biologic...
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