NOW LAUNCHING our first cohort: Authentic Desire:
a Sexual Health Program
A 6 week, LIVE, online course empowering women and folks socialized female to reconnect with their bodies and authentic desires through mindfulness practices and sexual education.
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Feel disconnected from your sexuality and unsure how to proceed?
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Long to have more intentional sexual experiences?
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Does sex feel like a chore?
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Ready to have a more present and satisfying sexual life?
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Want to learn how to be more connected to yourself?
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Long for more authenticity around your sexuality?
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Craving community around issues that are often taboo?
DATES: FEBRUARY 2, 9, 16, 23, MARCH 2 & 9 @ 5-7 pm
​EARLY BIRD PRICING: $550 for all 6 weeks and workbook (BEFORE JAN 20)
PRICING: $700 for all 6 weeks and workbook
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Join the 6-week live online Authentic Desire Sexual Health. Each class runs 90–120 minutes and includes expert guidance, supportive community, and evidence-based practices.
What You Get When You Join Authentic Desire
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6 Live Classes with Visual Learning Tools
Experience six rich, interactive sessions that combine live teaching, real-time support, and thoughtfully crafted visuals to deepen your learning and understanding. -
The Authentic Desire Workbook
A beautifully designed, shame-free companion for your journey—filled with reflection prompts, writing exercises, and tools you can return to again and again. -
Weekly Home Practices
Grounded, mindfulness-based practices to integrate the week’s teachings into your daily life and gently shift your relationship to desire and sexuality. -
Guided Meditations (Live + Take-Home)
Each week includes a guided meditation offered during class and as a recording to support embodiment, self-compassion, and connection with your body. -
Supportive Group Community
Join a cohort of women ready for changes, in a non-judgmental space. Share your experience, listen deeply and feel the power of being witnessed and not alone. -
Shame-Free, Evidence-Based Tools
Get the most current research and practices related to sexual desire, rooted in neuroscience, trauma-informed care, mindfulness, and body-based healing. -
A Choose-Your-Own-Pace Journey
Whether you’re diving in deeply or engaging on your own terms, this course honors where you are. You’ll have lifetime access to the workbook and practices.
Authentic Desire is lead by Gwenivere Weiss, MA, LPC, owner and operator of Real Change Therapy, who specializes in Mindfulness and Sex Therapy and began her teaching journey 16 years ago.
Want to talk with more with
Gwenivere about the course?
You can email now at Counseling@Gwenivereweiss.com
Welcome to Authentic Desire:
A Sexual Health Program and Deep Dive
on your journey
In this course we will:
Get the sex education you never had.
Use reflection questions and formal mindfulness practices to dive deeper.
Use the most current and researched tools to reconnect you to your body and pleasure.
Explore how to talk about sex with current or future partner/s in a low stakes, productive way.
Work towards finding your AUTHENTIC DESIRE at this moment in your life.
Work to cultivate a more satisfying sexual life in a 6 week supportive environment.
Weekly Themes
Week 1: Mindfulness, Meaning, and Broadening the Definition of Sex
Week 2: Arousal, Context, and the Nervous System
Week 3: Desire, Attention, and the Mind–Body Connection
Week 4: Erotic Meaning, Curiosity and Core Erotic Themes
Week 5: Avoidance, Pressure, and Choice
Week 6: Whole-Person Sexuality and Moving Forward
Each week in class,
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Begin together with a grounding and orientation to the week’s themes and intentions.
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Reflect as a group on the previous week’s practices—what came up, what felt meaningful, and where questions still linger.
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Receive a live lecture on current research and insights into sexuality, desire, and arousal—translating complex ideas into empowering understanding.
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Drop into mindfulness, with a guided practice designed to help you connect more deeply with your body, breath, and present-moment experience.
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Engage in reflection, exploring thoughtful prompts to deepen your self-awareness and bring curiosity and compassion to your inner world.
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Share in connection, through small group or dyads.
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Look ahead to the coming week’s home practices, with guidance on how to bring them into your daily life with intention and care.
Weekly Topics
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Will this course increase the amount of sex I have?
The truth is, everyone is at a different place in their journey, and I cannot really say precisely what will happen on yours. My hope is not specifically that you have MORE sex (although this definitely can happen!), but that the quality of the sex (solo or partnered) that you have begins to be from a place of more authenticity, presence and pleasure. My hope is that you will enjoy the intimacy and sex much more that you are having.
It probably look like you taking those big next steps on your exploration of knowing yourself more, feeling more connected to your body and pleasure, and if you are partnered that you are able to share a bit more about your true inner experience and pleasure with them. This will probably lead to more intimacy. The hope is more intimacy (into-me-see) with yourself, your partner/s, and experiencing your pleasure in a deeper more present way. So we are talking quality over quantity.
Can I join this class if I am single?
Absolutely! You are welcome partnered, dating, single, poly, and all forms of relationship or non-relationship.
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Can I join this class if I am queer/gay/questioning?
Absolutely!
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Can I join this class if I am poly/practice ENM/relationship anarchy or am a swinger?
Absolutely!
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Can I join this class if I am Ace/Asexual?
If you identify as Asexual then please get in touch with me and we can have a conversation to see if it may be the right fit for you. I don't have a straight forward answer for this.
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Can I join this class if I am religious?
Absolutely! All folks are welcome. This is a non-denominational, non-religious course based on science and psycho-education. There are parts of the course that involve mindful self touch on your own in the privacy of your own home. If this is not appealing to you, I would suggest another course. It is an important part of the class and in building comfort with one's body, sexuality and understanding what kinds of touch your body responds to and bring pleasure to you.
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Can I join this class if I haven't had sex in the past many years?
Absolutely.
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Can I join this class if I have never meditated, or don't like meditation?
Yes, definitely. As long as you are willing to try the practices weekly in class and daily at home, and are aware that the most current, most highly researched and most successful treatments of low-desire are Mindfulness-based practices and programs. If you are open to seeing what it can do for you, this could be a good course for you.
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Why is this course for women and those socialized as female from a young age?
This course takes into consideration the experience of being a woman and being socialized as a girl in our world, and how that can impact the relationship with sexuality. Although there is a varied experience within these identities, giving a cohesion to the group can be helpful for the students to support each other. I am so open and happy to tweak this course for other identities. If you have interest in this course, but do not identify as a woman or someone who was socialized female from a young age, I would love to hear from you. Please get in touch.
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Can I join this class if I don't want to do the Mindfulness exercises, or don't think I can fit them into my busy schedule?
I would say if you don't want to do them, this isn't the right course for you. If it is really that you fear you cannot find time for the exercises, I would like to let you know that this course is not about being perfect. You are welcome to modify how much you can do to your reality. We will do exercises together each week during the class, and then I encourage you to do practices throughout the week. I also know that life is complex. If you see this course as one more step on your journey, and you are going to do what you can in the 6 weeks, I know you can still get a lot out of the course.
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