Hopeful and Wholesome: Wellness, Nutrition, Inner Healing and Self-Improvement for High Achieving Women and Entrepreneurs

Embracing Healthy Sexuality and Dropping Out of Purity Culture with Erica Smith


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Erica Smith is an award winning sexuality educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience. Throughout her career, she has provided comprehensive sex education and advocacy to young women and LGBTQ+ youth in Philadelphia’s juvenile justice system, worked in abortion care, and supported HIV+ and transgender adolescents and their families. In 2019, she developed the Purity Culture Dropout™️ Program to help people learn all of the sex education that they missed growing up in purity culture- sex ed that is accurate, queer inclusive, trauma informed, compassionate, and comprehensive. She has since worked with hundreds of people to help them learn about healthy sexuality after high control religion. 

Erica lives in Philadelphia with her partner and house full of rescue animals.

Highlights from this episode:

  • What is purity culture?
  • Purity culture's effect on people + how it affects women differently
  • Why sex education is important
  • How has lack of sex education affected our sex lives as women
  • How shame around sex affects more than just our sex lives
  • Healing from purity culture

Resources:
Erica's Website
Follow Erica on Instagram

Connect with me on Instagram and tell me what you think!

For some more free resources to help you on your journey, click HERE to download my Guide to Seed Cycling and HERE for my guide on Minerals for Chakra Balancing and Longevity (a personal favorite because mineral balancing is my jam!)

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