Sex Is Medicine: Reclaim Your Desire, Pleasure & Life Energy | HOTNESS Ep. 17

Sex is about so much more than sex.

In this episode of **Hotness**, Dr. Liz Lyster sits down with Dr. Willow Brown, Chinese medicine doctor, Taoist sexologist, tantra educator, and functional medicine practitioner, for a conversation about pleasure, sexuality, shame, the pelvic floor, and the life force energy that can come back online in midlife.

Dr. Willow introduces Dr. Liz to Taoist sexology and the idea that our bodies are not separate from nature. We move through the same rhythms of contraction and expansion, yin and yang, that we see everywhere in the natural world. And for women who are no longer cycling, she offers a beautiful reframe: you’re no longer on a **moon-womb cycle — you’re on a moon-in-the-sky cycle.**

The conversation gets even deeper.

What happens when shame about sexuality has been carried in the body for years, or even passed down through generations?

Dr. Willow talks about how shame can show up as pain, insecurity, disconnection, painful sex, lack of desire, or simply not feeling safe in your own body. She also shares how her pelvic floor work helps women reconnect with sensation and release what their bodies may have been holding.

They also challenge the narrow cultural definition of what “good sex” looks like and explore sexuality as “creative life force energy”, something that can fuel pleasure, vitality, connection, creativity, and transformation.

And yes, they talk about menopause.

Because when the monthly cycle ends, it doesn’t mean your vitality, sexuality, or desire have to end with it. In fact, menopause can become an opportunity to turn some of that energy back toward yourself.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your body, your desire, or your sense of aliveness, this conversation is an invitation to look at sexuality differently.

Your hotness doesn’t disappear in midlife.
It can deepen.
It can expand.
It can come back online.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
01:52 Dr. Willow Brown on sexuality as pleasure and healing
03:14 What is Taoist sexology?
04:20 The body as part of nature
05:33 Contraction, expansion, yin and yang
06:10 Hormones, sexuality and natural cycles
07:36 What happens when you’re no longer cycling?
08:41 Authenticity and inherited beliefs
09:46 The cultural shame around sex and aging
11:39 How shame can live in the body
12:19 Shame, the pelvic floor and sexuality
13:27 Can sexual shame be generational?
14:14 Releasing what the body is holding
15:21 Reconnecting with sensation and the body
16:03 Sex vs. transformational sex
17:10 Why most “sex education” isn’t really sex education
18:28 Sexuality as creative life force energy
20:17 Sex magic and co-creating with the universe
21:53 Turning energy back toward yourself
22:54 Menopause as an opportunity to reclaim your energy
23:16 Dr. Willow’s personal experience with Taoist practices
24:37 How to connect with Dr. Willow Brown
25:02 Dr. Willow’s favorite way to reconnect with her hotness
26:25 Closing
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About Dr. Willow Brown

Dr. Willow Brown is a Chinese medicine doctor, Taoist sexologist, tantra educator, and functional medicine practitioner based in Santa Barbara, California.

She blends Chinese and functional medicine with Taoist sexual cultivation, trauma-informed somatic release, and pelvic floor work to help women, men, and couples reconnect with desire, pleasure, vitality, and their bodies.

She co-hosts the **Sex Reimagined** podcast with Leah Piper.

🌐 Website: https://drwillowbr.com/
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About Hotness with Dr. Liz Lyster, MD

Hotness is the podcast where **hormones, confidence, and desire come back online.**

Dr. Liz Lyster brings practical tools and honest conversations about menopause, sex, identity, love, loss, reinvention, desire, and what it means to thrive in midlife.
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