Your Joyologist with Dr. Lea Lis - Episode 103

In this episode we talk about: 

• Her first memories of experiencing shame due to her height growing up which cultivated extreme empathy 

• Knowing at an early age that she wanted to be a psychiatrist after working with her aunt at a hospital and working with hiv patients in the 80s

• Dealing with rejection 

• The difference between  a pyschiatrist and psychologist 

• Why she focuses on shame 

• Seeing so many teen patients that had no sex education and no idea how to give consent or say no 

• Why parents often don’t have conversations about sex with their kids and how that is a disservice. 

• Why to start sex talk with kids as soon as they can talk by starting with using proper body titles and who can touch them

• How you talk about yourself and your body in front of your kids affect them

  How to Heal from shame 

• How to transform out of feeling like a victim for the rest of life and take the pearls out of the experience