Nobody Taught You This in Sex Ed — And It Might Be Holding You Back After Divorce

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between sexual self-knowledge and rebuilding life after divorce, featuring insights from clinical sexologist Myisha Battle.

Nobody tells you that divorce can feel like a second puberty. Suddenly, after years of being someone's partner — someone's spouse — you're standing in your own skin again, sometimes for the first time in decades, asking a question you were never really taught to answer: What actually brings me pleasure? In this illuminating, permission-giving episode of Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell sits down with Myisha Battle , clinical sexologist, certified dating coach, and author of the brand-new book Sexual Pleasure for Dummies . This isn't just a conversation about sex — it's a conversation about reclamation. About what it means to rediscover your own body, your own desires, and your own standards after divorce. Myisha brings equal parts clinical expertise and radical warmth to a topic that most divorce support spaces completely ignore: the connection between sexual self-knowledge and your ability to build a new, fully embodied life after a marriage ends. What makes Myisha such a revelatory voice in the divorce recovery and dating-after-divorce space is the way she reframes experiences we've been taught to see as losses. She introduces the concept — shared by Olivia's network of…

People in this episode

Host: Olivia Howell

Guest: Myisha Battle

Topics covered

• divorce recovery
• sexual self-knowledge
• personal reclamation
• dating after divorce
• female empowerment
• hormonal shifts

Keywords

• divorce
• sexual pleasure
• self-discovery
• cougar puberty
• dating
• empowerment
• hormones

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sexual Pleasure for Dummies

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