Charging up this week, Anna talks to Vanessa Tarfon, a Qualified Sex Therapist and Founder of Authentic Awareness, who helps busy, tired mums who feel anxious, guilty and embarrassed by their missing sexual identity and desire.

But Vanessa is also a sleep-deprived mum of two young boys, who is exactly like us and is not afraid nor does she feel vulnerable to show that and to talk about that with clients and with other women.

Listen in as she talks frankly about the many personal, relatable, confusing, laughable and sad moments mothers feel before, during and after becoming a mummy. Be fascinated as Vanessa explores how something as simple as touch, can invoke such terrible and triggering feelings for women post-birth.

Was this you?

Vanessa is truly paving the way for women’s sex positivity for modern women. We didn’t get enough of this growing up, from education or from our parents. She is addressing “everything we should have learned”.

We're renovating our mother-fucking bodies... Literally!

Join Anna as she tries to crack open her intensely interesting and highly-informed mind when it comes to women and sensuality. Vanessa offers so many nuggets of gold and take aways for women that we know you will agree, can be put in to practice in our sex lives. Including her top tips for rekindling the sensual relationship you have with yourself through her course Mama's Sensual Safari.

Stay charged!

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Charging up the show this week, Sexological Educator Keesha Booth joins Anna in the Studio. Keesha helps women and young people navigate sex education and their sexual awakening through education so they can become more confident and free when forming their sense of sexual selves.

She is based in Townsville (North Queensland), where she is a single mother to Zion and Zan and teaches groups of tweens and teens about relationships, consent, porn, sex, gender expectations and all the in-between conversations young people are all thinking but critically - not discussing.

Her experience of sexual assault when she was 9 and 12 has been her motivating driver in using sex positive education as a prevention model to relationship abuse & violence for young people. So now she is passionate about using pleasure centric principles into her Sex Education sessions and (self-professed), has fabulous pussy power!

Ok so this will interest some of you... Keesha is now embarking on a new project to better affirm and empower single mothers. She wants to move away from the victimhood ideology that stands behind the term ‘single mother’ and to move from surviving to thriving and to empowerment. She’s starting local in Townsville but most definitely going National to keep your eyes out for this program in the future.

During the episode. we discussed that Clementine Ford book ‘Fight Like A Girl’ which has been difficult to read, for both of us, as well as many other women, but which made us reassess many aspects of our lives with a new feminist lens.

We discuss pre-baby body bounce backs and what that really means and how we really feel about them. And we discuss teenagers and how she deals with being seen as an “old 32 year old” by her students, keeping up with their Gen Z linguo to make sure she stays super “dripp”...?

We do touch on sexual assault throughout this episode for any one who experiences trauma surrounding past sexual assault, please be aware of this and do seek help from 1800 RESPECT (that’s 1800 737 732) if you are concerned over your mental health and your trauma and would like to seek help.

Stay charged!

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Charging up this week, Anna invites practising GP Gabrielle Staniforth, Founder of The Mindful Doctor on the show for some real perspective on Women's Health in 2021. We candidly discuss how women are presenting to her across the generations and how Gabby believes her care is important now but also "across a lifetime". 

Gabby's account of life as a female GP in 2021, is a window into the psyche of women and girls in a new age: an age where talking about sexuality, gender, sexual pleasure and pain for women are acceptable. It is an age where there are medical professionals like Gabby who exist to encourage this new way of feeling, thinking, doing with regards to our bodies, our confidence, relationships and our health.

And continuing with this will only have positive consequences for society and for women and girls navigating a vastly changing landscape in the digital age.

Aside from her professional journey, her personal story is a tale of resilience, growth and success. Between nursing degrees, relocating across state boundaries, her husband's two cancer diagnoses, her medical degree and her 20 IVF cycles (no that's not a typo), Gabby shows great strength in self-acceptance and by placing realistic expectations upon herself on a daily basis.

*TRIGGER WARNING*

Now as Gabby navigates reporting historical sex abuse committed against her when she was a child, she lays bare her life, her struggles and her coping techniques for her patients to use and share as she continues her journey.

Plus we also discuss the fun stuff! Do you and your partner still sleep in the same bed? Are you happy without having any sexual activity in your relationship? Will you be supportive when your 15 year old daughter asks for the contraceptive pill? There's nothing off limits in this episode...

Stay charged!

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Anna charges up her new podcast by talking with Arileigh Russell: a Women's Lifestyle & Transformation Coach and Model who educates & empowers women by helping them transform their fitness and bodies with her course, completed by hundreds of women - Project Unf*ck Yourself.

Charging up this week, Anna welcomes you to A Woman Charged Podcast - an honest, helpful and hopeful platform for women to listen and engage in discussion about topics ranging from the taboo, obscure, to the unjust and unfair.

Anna Walsh, a self-professed pleasure product professional, a purveyor of pleasure, a woman's rights advocate, ex-police officer turned entrepreneur and founder of happymash, now invites listeners to share in her guests' stories of pain, pleasure and everything in between as she embarks on her awakening from an induced coma, a deep sleep, rousing her from the constraints of the Patriarchy.

Stay charged!

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