The Link Between Erotic Life & Mental Health

It's Women's Health Week, and I want to talk about something that almost never makes the list: the connection between a woman's erotic life and her mental health.

I struggled with depression for most of my life. For a long time, it felt like I had two impossible choices—medicated and numb, or unmedicated and undone. The one thing that made me feel like a living person sat in a category no one talked about, and no doctor ever asked me about.

That changed when I found Orgasmic Meditation. The practice itself began to shift something in me. It gave me access to feeling again—to being in my body, to being present, to having a different relationship to my inner world.

In The Art, Science, and Spirituality of the Female Orgasm, Nicole Daedone and Dr. Teresa Diaz write about this directly:

"Women carry a hidden hunger, a force so vast it could remake the world if only we dared to unleash it. Only, it doesn't gnaw in the stomach; it thrums as anxiety, hums as stress, sharpens into the constant vigilance we've been taught to mistake for survival. It takes root quietly, disguising itself so that instead of reaching for what we need, we learn to name it something else: worry, neuroses, a personal failing."

Women's health includes mental health. But we rarely consider the part that has the most power to shift it—our capacity to feel and be alive in our bodies.

Reading this book, and living this practice, I started to see there may be another way to approach all of this.

A way that doesn't start with fixing ourselves, but with feeling ourselves. A way that doesn't bypass the body, but comes fully into it. A different way of living life.

You can explore it here:

✨ The Art, Science, and Spirituality of the Female Orgasm → Read the book

🎧 A recent panel I was part of, led by Teresa Diaz, MD → Listen to the conversation

With love,

Courtenay @ Soulmaker Press