Sex with Fear, Guilt or Anxiety: Healing Sexual Dysfunction

By Valeria Sáenz

Sex with Fear, Guilt or Anxiety: Healing Sexual Dysfunction
A therapeutic workbook based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Do you feel like fear, guilt, or anxiety have taken over your sex life?
Do you struggle to enjoy intimacy due to shame, intrusive thoughts, or emotional blocks?
Are you looking for a compassionate, evidence-based approach to heal your sexual well-being?

This guided workbook was created to help you break free from emotional and psychological sexual dysfunction using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools. With a gentle, therapeutic structure, it offers a healing path to reconnect with your body, desire, and emotional safety.

What's inside this self-help workbook on sexual healing?

✔️ Step-by-step exercises to identify and reframe negative thoughts about sex
✔️ Techniques to manage sexual performance anxiety and emotional avoidance
✔️ Therapeutic writing prompts: healing letters, personal stories, reframing narratives
✔️ Tools for processing sexual guilt, trauma, and shame
✔️ Communication strategies to express sexual needs, boundaries, and desires
✔️ Mindfulness-based practices to reconnect with your body and sensations
✔️ Body-awareness journaling and pleasure mapping
✔️ CBT-based charts, checklists, progress tracking and personalized action plans

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This is not a substitute for therapy, but it's a powerful complement for those in sex therapy, trauma recovery, or beginning their emotional healing journey around intimacy and self-worth. It's ideal for individuals or couples who want to understand their sexual blocks and begin transforming them from a place of compassion.

Recommended for people who:

Avoid sex due to fear, shame, or past trauma

Experience disconnection or numbness during intimacy

Struggle with sexual self-worth or body image

Find it hard to express needs or say "no"

Want a healthy, conscious, and shame-free sex life

If you've ever thought "I'm broken," "something's wrong with me," or "I'll never enjoy sex,"-this workbook is for you. Inside, you'll learn to replace those thoughts with compassion, clarity, and confidence.

You're not broken. You're healing.
Your body is worthy. Your desire is valid. Your story deserves peace.
Start your journey to a more empowered, connected, and fulfilling sexual life today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FFNDF1MM
• ISBN13: 9798289709967
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"