14. Rewriting the Script: Purity Culture, Matrescence, and Sexual Healing with Dr. Ashley Hudson

Written By Emma Goff

Licensed therapist Dr. Ashley Hudson joins Emma to explore how purity culture has shaped sexual beliefs, body awareness, and intimate relationships and what it really looks like to reclaim pleasure, autonomy, and connection. We explore how identity shifts, hormones, and nervous-system changes impact desire after kids, and why many women actually experience better sex as they reconnect with their bodies and rewrite old scripts. 


Dr. Ashley Hudson @pearlinprocess | pearlinprocess.com

Purely Resilient: Resiliency Factors of Sexually Satisfied Postpartum Women who Engaged the Purity Movement

Resources mentioned:

Books:

Great Sex Rescue

She Deserves Better

Directories: 

AASECT directory

PSI directory

Faith-based resources for sex education: 

Kristen Mule with Sex Ed Reclaimed

Center for Faith Sexuality and Gender

God's Design for Sex

Non-faith-based resources for sex education 

Sex Positive Families

Scarleteen

It's So Amazing!

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