How can equine therapy with horses help couples improve communication? How can horses support survivors of trauma? What is vaginismus and what are some approaches to managing painful sex? Dr. Maha Nasrallah-Babenko joins Jess to answer these questions and more.

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What We Can Learn from Equine Horse Therapy

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You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jasser podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight. Hey just a rally your friendly neighborhood sexologist here in Orange County today so just south of Los Angeles. I'm on my own without Brennan but I'm not totally on my own. I am here with psychologist and sex therapist. Dr Maha Nasrallah Benko yes impressed you pronounce it correctly as Rallo Banco actually much more sexy than most people pronounce. It would be pronounced it in your tongue. Nasrallah Benko the way you pronounce his even more sexy than the way out so you are. You're psychologist your sex therapist. You worked worked in lived all over the world you lived in. Beirut Lebanon which is one of my favorite places I've ever visited. You lived in Dubai for awhile. You studied and lived in London England. And now you're here on the west coast and it wasn't New York for a year and a half all right. That's where I met you at the Sexual Health Expo and we'RE GONNA be talking about a number of topics today but I want to begin with this. Eh quine therapy because this is all new to me. Can you tell me what this is? How you got into it and how we can. All you know. Have some takeaways from this therapy with horses? Absolutely and first of all I want to thank you for having me today. I'm really really excited. And I was really glad to see you here. An tenure event I'm a huge fan of yours in case you haven't noticed learn a lot from you even though. I'm an expert quote unquote but I think we are continuously learning and growing and I really really appreciate the information you put out there really. I'm very serious. Thank you A. It's true every event I go do. I am constantly learning. Yeah eat from. Experts and non experts like so always think it's interesting when people say oh. I know all this. How can you know all this? Yeah I studied this all day every day and I feel I mean. I know that I know very little. And Yeah I learned from my clients to just like worrying non-experts horse yeah their insights. I think are often more valuable. Because they're not in their heads. Yeah Same Way. That are so for all of you out there. You are the experts in your absolutely relation. I agree so equine. Therapy or Aucoin. Therapy doesn't matter how you pronounce it. I got into it like a year ago in terms of starting to study it But maybe six months ago or five six months ago or so. I started practicing it Here in Orange County I Dunno I think having a dog we. We had a dog We got a dog two years ago. my husband and I yes. She's adorable I think you having a dog and my love for animals and therapy and all that stuff. I started to kind of think of ways to combine them. I started to do some research and realize that it is a thing already working with animals in therapy so I started A certification on animal assisted psychotherapy.