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If your body feels unfamiliar after cancer, menopause or a major health change, the answer isn't to push yourself back into the sex life you used to have.
In this conversation, I sit down with sex coach and clinical sexologist Georgia Rose, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 31. Within weeks, she was navigating emergency IVF, intensive chemotherapy and a medically induced menopause. Surviving treatment was only part of the story. Afterwards came grief, a loss of trust in her body and the feeling that her sexual spark had gone.
Georgia shares what that experience taught her about intimacy, body confidence and the pressure to get back to normal. We talk about why feeling safe matters, how couples can stay close when intercourse is off the table, and why treating the physical symptoms doesn't always resolve the fear or guilt around sex. For women navigating these changes in their 50s, 60s and 70s, this is a conversation about making room for a different kind of intimacy, on your own terms.
Georgia also reflects on her own exploration of sexual healing for her podcast Come Undone, including mindfulness, somatic practices and conscious kink. These are her personal experiences, not a treatment recommendation or a requirement for recovery.
Content note: cancer treatment, fertility, bereavement, sexual difficulties and explicit discussion of sex, BDSM and body-based practices.
In this episode:
- Georgia's diagnosis at 31, emergency IVF and medically induced menopause
- Why the emotional impact of cancer can hit after treatment ends
- How cancer and grief changed a sex coach's relationship with her own body
- Why sexual recovery is about safety, trust and pleasure, not just mechanics
- Staying intimate when a relationship shifts into patient and carer roles
- The gaps in conversations about sex during cancer care
- What sex coaching involves and how Georgia distinguishes it from sex therapy
- Taking pressure off penetration when sex has become painful or frightening
- Body confidence, sexual shame and the assumptions we carry about our bodies
- Georgia's personal exploration of consent, control and emotional expression
- Noticing small moments of everyday pleasure without pressure to perform
- Letting go of the expectation to bounce back, and making room for partners' needs
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Menopause
Midlife
Perimenopause
Dr Shauna Watts
Dr Shauna GP
Womens health advocate
Georgia Rose
Sex after cancer
Intimacy after cancer
Medically induced menopause
Body confidence
Sexual wellbeing
Painful sex
Sex coaching
Cancer survivorship
Grief and intimacy
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Come Undone podcast
G's Spot
Intimacy after menopause
