Dr. Julie Merriman
64 episodes listed below
Midlife desire, rewired through the body.
Sexy After 50 speaks to women over 50 who feel desire has gone quiet, confusing, or physically uncomfortable. Episodes connect menopause, long-term partnership, novelty, safety, and pleasure through nervous-system language, chakra framing, research references, and practical somatic exercises.
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Sexy After 50 approaches midlife intimacy with urgency, warmth, and a clear point of view. Desire is not treated as a switch that randomly breaks. It is treated as a body state shaped by safety, novelty, stress, pain, shame, partnership, and years of over-functioning. The show is especially focused on women over 50 who still care about pleasure but may feel numb, avoidant, confused, or embarrassed by what has changed. It talks plainly. Episodes address roommate marriages, dead bedrooms, painful sex, oral sex, new positions, strip-club dates, performance pressure, and the quiet exhaustion of managing everyone else's needs. The language is adult, but the aim is not shock. The aim is reclamation. A typical episode begins with a bold claim about desire, then builds a bridge between sexual experience and nervous-system regulation. Polyvagal theory appears often. So do dopamine, co-regulation, novelty, menopause-related discomfort, and practical relationship repair. The show also uses chakra psychology as a second map for the same terrain, especially the root, sacral, solar plexus, and throat chakras. That blend gives the series its particular flavor: part sexual-health coaching, part somatic education, part spiritual pep talk, part marriage reset. It is not neutral in tone. It reassures, pushes, repeats, and keeps moving until the emotional point lands. Many episodes end with something usable, such as a somatic practice, a conversation script, a six-second intimacy reset, or a new way to approach touch without pressure. The show is strongest when it reframes familiar midlife problems as signals rather than defects. Numbness becomes protection. Boredom becomes a need for novelty. Pain becomes a call for permission and care. Over-efficiency becomes a block to sensual presence. For women who have been told to accept disconnection as normal aging, the show offers a more charged and compassionate vocabulary. It can be blunt. It can be provocative. But underneath the heat is a consistent message: intimacy after 50 can be rebuilt through safety, curiosity, and embodied attention.
Made for: Women over 50 who want candid, emotionally safe guidance on sex, intimacy, desire, and long-term partnership. It especially suits people open to both nervous-system science and spiritual body language.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by combining sexual-health candor with polyvagal theory, chakra psychology, and concrete somatic practices. It turns midlife intimacy problems into body-based maps rather than moral judgments.
Sexy After 50 is the podcast for women over 50 who are done pretending they don’t miss feeling turned on, confident, and alive in their bodies.If sex feels confusing, inconsistent, painful, or nonexistent…If your desire disappeared and no one explained why…If you’re tired of being told it’s “just hormones” or that this is “normal aging”…You’re in the right place.I’m Dr. Juls, licensed therapist, nervous-system specialist, and midlife expert—and this show is about waking up what never left.Each episode explores how intimacy, sex, pleasure, and desire after 50 are shaped not just by hormones, but by your n...
Dr. Jules turns a strip-club date into nervous-system homework for anyone done blushing on cue.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded reset for desire that treats boredom as a signal, not a verdict.
Dr. Jules ties novelty, dopamine, co-regulation, and body based safety into a clear, grounded talk. What lands best is the simple idea that desire after 50 does not have to vanish, but it can get stuck when the nervous system stays in survival mode.
A midlife sex conversation that treats pleasure as nervous system work, not performance.
Dr. Jules centers the episode on a striking claim: oral sex after 50 can help rewire the nervous system for more pleasure, and she supports that point with research, polyvagal language, and chakra framing.
A grounded look at desire, safety, and arousal for listeners who want intimacy explained without losing sight of the body.
Desire here reads less like a mystery than a body state. Dr. Jules argues that stress, shame, and years of disconnected sex can leave people braced, numb, and slow to respond, then moves through root, sacral, and throat chakra language before translating it into plain terms:…
A confident argument for shared attention as a way back into midlife desire.
Desire lands here as something the body negotiates, not a test anyone has to pass. In this provocative Sexy After 50 installment, Dr. Jules starts with Kelly's Vegas story and an upscale gentlemen's club, then shifts toward the pressure some women place on a partner's orgasm…
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This episode addresses why women over 50 may flinch at their partner's touch and offers solutions through nervous system healing, GSM research, and a pleasure practice.